From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 00:08:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6E216A4CF for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:08:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C24143D66 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:08:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4DC6E72DF2; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD9872DB5; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Darin In-Reply-To: <20040619212552.7910E2AD09@bsd.naebunny.net> Message-ID: <20040621170728.E70461@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040619212552.7910E2AD09@bsd.naebunny.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 boot question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:08:26 -0000 On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Darin wrote: > I've been working on getting a system ready for my daughter to use, and have > run into a problem. > > The system is running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 that was cvsuped yesterday. > > The problem was caused by the Kuser app that I installed as part of the KDE3 > port. For some reason it set all of the accounts on the system to expired, > including root. I was able to fix the problem by rebuilding spwd.db and > pwd.db with pwd_mkdb. So, I can log on again and su to root to finish up > any ports that I need to compile in. This was a known bug with that package build, sadly. Any recent build has a fix. > However, when the machine boots, I get the following on the screen and in > /var/log/messages: > > > Jun 19 14:17:41 dell1 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel > Jun 19 14:17:41 dell1 kernel: term R *Handler Int Somewhere you have 'sysctl sysctl' running, which is probably in /etc/sysctl.conf. Make sure they're just name=value pairs and not full sysctl commands. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org