From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 12:50:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE0116A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:50:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TheWorld.com (pcls4-e.std.com [192.74.137.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017ED43D2D for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:50:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kwc@shell.TheWorld.com) Received: from shell.TheWorld.com (root@shell01-e.TheWorld.com [69.38.147.31]) by TheWorld.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j1BCmSH6016366; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:48:28 -0500 Received: (from kwc@localhost) by shell.TheWorld.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA2236362; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:48:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:48:27 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth W Cochran Message-Id: <200502111248.HAA2236362@shell.TheWorld.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu References: <200502110700.CAA2221314@shell.TheWorld.com> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:50:14 -0000 >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:27:01 +0200 >From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu >To: Kenneth W Cochran >Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: 5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup > >On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:00:39 -0500 (EST) >Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > >> Hello -stable: >> >> Any idea(s) why (my) 5.3-stable (as of 9 February) isn't >> configuring the network interface or setting up the default route? >> >> I installed 5.3-release from CD and things worked fine. >> Then I updated the system sources (via cvsup) to RELENG_5 and >> went through {build,install}world/mergemaster/reboot as outlined ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ >> in /usr/src/UPDATING and now I get no network interfaces ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> configured & no default route set. I've tracked RELENG_4 for >> years with nothing like this ever happening. Kernel has not been >> reconfigured (yet), it's still GENERIC, albeit RELENG_5 now. >> >> In looking through the rc scripts, it appears that network >> interface(s) are being renamed but I see no references to this >> in, say, UPDATING or errara or other documentation. Any ideas? > >mergemaster pilot error ? >If you didn't changed something in them I'd suggest wiping /etc/rc.d/* >and /etc/defaults/* and do a mergermaster -i > >-- >IOnut >Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" First thing I thought of; both "mergemaster -p" and "mergemaster" without arguments are fine; all its "targets" updated accordingly. -kc