Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:56:20 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@despammed.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.6 and smmsp Message-ID: <20020619055620.GA3316@scott1.homeunix.net>
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This is more of an idle curiosity question. In the last few days, I updated two boxes that were running 4.6 RC's without any issues---make buildworld, make buildkernel (custom kernel) make installkernel reboot, make installworld mergemaster. No problems, everything relatively smooth. I have a third, slow box, that I seldom use. Today, having some time, I decided to update that as well. I believe it was also running a 4.6 RC, but am honestly not sure, it may have been running 4.5--I don't use it very often. So, things went smoothly until installworld. That is, buildworld, building and installing the kernel and the reboot. Then, I got an error code because of smmsp group or user problems. The message was quite helpful (are you listening Linux coders?) saying to check UPDATING. I did that and found that I should run mergemaster -p. Did this, however, I had no joy. There was another suggestion in UPDATING about using /usr/sbin.mergemaster that also didn't work. As a good friend was asking about doing fresh installs of 4.6 from a CDROM, at that point, I said the heck with it and did a fresh install. That's why this is more of an idle question. Is there a reason why this would have been an issue on one box and not another? The basic setup is relatively similar on all--none are running sendmail. My guess is that perhaps I never had upgraded the old box to one of the 4.6 RC's before doing this--however, I'm moderately certain that it ~was~ running 4.6 RC--but I can't swear to that. So, is that the most likely explanation--that I'm incorrect and the old box was still running 4.5 and that the newer boxes, as they'd already been upgraded to a 4.6 RC wouldn't have this problem (I hadn't run into the problem in any of the previous upgrades to 4.6 RC's either). Thanks, and I reiterate, this is more of an idle question than anything else, so I do thank anyone who takes the time to respond. Sincerely, Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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