Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:35:31 +0200 (IST) From: nadav@barcode.co.il To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: conf/4738: Upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA messes up /etc, complains on /etc/fstab Message-ID: <199710101035.MAA03459@scully.barcode.co.il> Resent-Message-ID: <199710100940.CAA05470@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4738 >Category: conf >Synopsis: Upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA messes up /etc, complains on /etc/fstab >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 10 02:40:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Nadav Eiron >Organization: Bar-Code Computers Ltd. >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-971005-BETA i386 >Environment: A 2.2.2-RELEASE machine, upgrading to 2.2.5-971005-BETA. Installing from a file system (containing the complete directory from releng22-freebsd.org). This machine started its life in 2.1.0-RELEASE days and was updated by this very method (or from CDs) through most RELEASES and BETAS/GAMMAS ever since (hardware also upgraded along the way, but I don't think it matters). Hardware config: DEC Venturis 5166, 166MHz Pentium, 48MB RAM, two EIDE disks (1.6GB, 850MB), one x8 Creative Labs CD, DEC DE500-AA fast ethernet. >Description: When upgrading using the boot floppy for the new BETA, after the file copying phase is over, the installation program complained that it cannot find /etc/fstab, and thus will not modify it. Checking with the holographic shell shows that /etc/fstab is alive and well in place. It then complains that it cannot find my old /etc/group, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd files and will thus create new ones. Then it goes on to the "updating /etc files" phase. The net result: /etc/fstab remains as it was. /etc/group, passwd, master.passwd and mostly everything else in /etc are the fresh new versions (what would normally go into /etc/upgrade). /etc/upgrade is *empty*. /usr/tmp/etc is alive and well with my old files intact (thanks goodness) in it. >How-To-Repeat: Do an upgrade from a 2.2.2RELEASE machine??? (don't know, have just two more such machines to upgrade, and I'll only get to it next week, probably with a newer BETA). >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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