Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:13:22 -0700 From: "James Satterfield" <james@floondoon.com> To: "Michael Ross" <satare@optusnet.com.au>, "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re: mergemaster has locked me out Message-ID: <000f01c1e42b$80d93610$0feba8c0@sphynx> References: <200204150304.g3F348t25683@mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au>
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Yes, there is a way... PAY ATTENTION when you merge stuff. James. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Ross" <satare@optusnet.com.au> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Re: mergemaster has locked me out > > Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > > > > I'm guessing my only recourse is to boot as single user and reset, > > > but how to avoid this kind of nastiness? > > > > > > I would try nothing and if that doesn't work, reboot to single user > > mode. > > apologies for this being a "me too" email, > > but I had the similar problem with my first buildworld, I luckily figured out > what happened before I closed my last root shell, so was able to salvage > the problem easily. > > Is there an easy way to just get mergemaster to update the new users > in your /etc/passwd files while leaving your existing ones alone? > > thanks > > Michael Ross > satare@optusnet.com.au > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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