Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:11:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crippled FreeBSD! Need help! Message-ID: <20060918001102.GA3169@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <73d604760609160745k6419a381y4fb9269610246d94@mail.gmail.com> References: <73d604760609160745k6419a381y4fb9269610246d94@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2006-09-16 20:15, Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com> wrote: > I have managed to scr** up my FBSD 6.1 installation. This is what > happened: > > I had an installation of BSD with which I was experimenting and > managed to get it to work to my taste. Call this installation A. This > installation had a lot of unwanted ports installed so I decided to do > a new installation. > > I installed BSD in another partition. Call this installation B. > > I wanted to custom build the kernel in B and hence created the config > file needed for the custom build. > > I used sysinstall to copy the src from the 6.1 CD. When I marked Base > inside sysinstall to be copied, it gave me an error: Write failure on > transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes). I know this is not a > problem with the CD because I was able to copy the base and src in > another machine that I have. Src however got copied in B. > > I couldnt do a make buildworld because it gave me an error saying that > it didnt know what buildworld was. > > I knew i needed the base files to get it to work. A friend of mine had > helped me custom build the kernel in installation A. > > So I mounted the partition and copied the files in /usr/src (only > files, excluded /usr/src/sys) from installation A to installation B. > > Then when I did a make buildworld it gave me an error that it was > unable to cd into a directory by thename /somepath/usr.bin. I dont > remember what somepath was. I couldn't note it down. > > Then I mounted the 6.1 CD and went into the 6.1Release folder and into > the base directory and ran ./install.sh. It asked me if I wanted to > copy files to / and i said yes. I attempted make buildworld again and > it did not work. > > When this did not work, I decided to restart the machine and try > again. However, after restarting, the login prompt does not accept my > user id and password. And when i type "root" for user, it logs me in > without asking for a password. I am clueless whats happening here. > Please help. You have managed to wipe out your /etc/master.passwd file (among other things, but let's fix this first). Backup copies of master.passwd are kept in `/var/backups', so you can always look there and restore it. Unless you have added many users during the last day or so, all should be there already :)
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