From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 7 7:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D15637B403 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15fN2K-000ImX-00; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:55:16 +0300 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:55:16 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: philip@paeps.cx Subject: Re: FreeBSD not parsing rc.conf after make world Message-ID: <20010907175516.J64247@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, philip@paeps.cx References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bGR76rFJjkSxVeRa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 5:51PM up 2 days, 1:46, 2 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.09, 0.07 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bGR76rFJjkSxVeRa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Philip Paeps [20010907 17:24]: writing on the subject '= FreeBSD not parsing rc.conf after make world' | Hi all, |=20 | I wonder what I might have done wrong to cause this. I've just CVSupped = the | latest stable sources last night, and today I built the world as follows: |=20 | % cd /usr/src | % make buildworld | (loads of coffee, lunch, etc) | % make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DFORTUNA | (more coffee) | % make installkernel KERNCONF=3DFORTUNA | % reboot | (single user) |=20 | # fsck -p | # mount -u / | # mount -a -t ufs | # swapon -a |=20 | # make installworld | # mergemaster |=20 | I told it to install the new MAKEDEV, and merge most of the stuff in /etc= , the | sort of stuff I do everytime I make the world. |=20 | # reboot |=20 | When my machine booted, I was welcomed by (Amnesiac) before login, as opp= osed to | the (fortuna.paeps.cx), which I'm used to. After a bit of testing around= (a few | changes in rc.conf, followed by reboots), I realised that the system just= wasn't | reading it on startup. Any ideas what might have caused this? Probably | something silly I did, but I don't want to do it again, given the amount = of | coffee I have to consume to kill time waiting for it to let me play with = it :-) |=20 | Thanks for any help! You did cp -Rp etc etc.old before doing mergemaster and doing the mergings,= yes? If so,=20 rm -rf etc mv etc.old etc reboot. Then run mergemaster and choose to install all the new files (the temporary= ones) except for the files that you have some customizations on. I _never_ merge anything myself: I either install the temporary one or dele= te it. In some cases I leave for later to compare but rarely. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his= =20 mouth.=20 --bGR76rFJjkSxVeRa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7mN/Un7LIsuxjem8RAjWlAKCA5JzTjXEHdxXocG0KdFI8sTuhMACZATF1 iq98GdW5GrkAUl0fiwF9/mE= =OJe/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bGR76rFJjkSxVeRa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message