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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:47:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
To:        Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Accidentally upgraded to 4.3-BETA; how do I fix problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103100041470.15270-100000@shazam.int>
In-Reply-To: <B6CEC2D7.1AD0%praxis@techpraxis.com>

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> > 
> > The 4.3-BETA tag means "4-STABLE in code freeze, pending -RELEASE status".
> > 
> > --
> > Matt Emmerton
> 
> Thank you, Matthew for clearing up that little point.
> If someone could please tell me why inetd is loading at startup even though
> /etc/rc.conf says clearly, inetd = NO
> And what reasons could make it so  I have console permissions to start x, as
> per my original question?
> 
> --Thanks
> Forrest Hawes
> 

There was a change to the way the rc files are read, I believe around
4.1.  Check that you have "source_rc_confs" in rc, rc.devfs, rc.diskless2,
rc.firewall, rc.shutdown and in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. If not, you 
have old versions of these files and the system will appear to be
ignoring config changes. Just a thought..

-Jim Durham




> ---Original message post to freebsd-questions
> ----------------------------------
> On 3/9/01 4:47 PM, "Forrest" <praxis@techpraxis.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks, hoping that someone here can help us out.
> > We have been happily running a FreeBSD 4.1 server for a year. No problems of
> > any consequence. We upgraded to 4.2-RELEASE, via cvsup, no problems.
> > A few days ago, we were running 4.2-RELEASE, and decided to upgrade to
> > 4.2-STABLE. Our standard-supfile we configured to read, like normal:
> > 
> > [in 'Defaults that apply to all connections']
> > *default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
> > *default base=/usr
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4  [problem here??]
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > 
> > And of course, in 'Main Source Tree'
> > Src-all
> > 
> > OK, well we cvsup'ed, built a new kernel, made world, merge differences--
> > There was a problem here, we may have overridden our original /etc files and
> > we lost the tar we made of the original /etc...
> > 
> > So now I've got, according to uname
> > 4.3-BETA,
> > Of which I can't find much mention anywhere on mailing lists or web..
> > How did this happen?
> > 
> > Problems:
> > First, X doesn't work at all. When starting x, we get:
> > Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> > [then...]
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =2
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =2
> > [again]
> > [and finally it gives up]
> > Xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> > Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
> > 
> > Okay next problem.
> > 
> > In /etc/rc.conf, I have inetd turned "off"
> > Yet ps -aux | grep inetd yields:
> > Root 105 0.0 0.2 1036 748 ?? Is 3:45PM 0:00.01 inetd
> > 
> > What gives? Also, any other change I make to rc.conf, whether manually or with
> > /stand/sysinstall, has no effect!
> > This leads me to believe that the system is being controlled by other files.
> > 
> > Okay, that's it for now, I'm sure I will get some "duh, you forgot the
> > obvious" answers, but that's the price for upgrading to a BETA, even though it
> > was (mea culpa) an accident...
> > 
> > Forrest
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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