From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 4:22:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428B437B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usenet.otenet.gr (usenet.otenet.gr [195.170.0.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3077D43E65 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by usenet.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g77BJddJ000537 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:19:39 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a203.otenet.gr [212.205.215.203]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g77BI5PL013250; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:18:05 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g77APeup004285; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:25:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g77APe4Q004284; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:25:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:25:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Desmond Lee Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: mergemaster -p troubles (was: [no subject]) Message-ID: <20020807102539.GA2989@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-Phone: +30-944-116520 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-08-04 18:29 +0000, Desmond Lee wrote: > Hi there Hello. Please, when posting questions add a Subject line too. It was only accidentally that I happened to read this post. I don't usually read posts without a Subject. A lot of people have mentioned that they don't either. It would be a pity to have your posts ignored by anyone who could help just because they don't have a Subject line. > I had free bsd 4.4 and was trying to update to 4.6. So, i'm following the > instructions of my freebsd book, and got past the 'make kernel > KERNCONF=MYKERN' command. Then rebooted the machine and then typed 'cd > /usr/src'. Then i tried to execute 'make installworld', but it couldn't > execute and said something was wrong with smmsp and to look in the UPDATING > file. > > So i looked into the UPDATING file and looked for smmsp. It gave some > suggestions indicating that i have to execute 'megemaster -p'. So that's > what i did and i didn't really understand what was going on, but i tried to > merge in differences from different files. Why? You should never, absolutely NOT, do things that you don't understand to the files of /etc. It's very easy to make things go wrong by making some change. > I then rebooted, and now i can't log into my machine under root or > any other user. You probably forgot or chose not to update the password database files, after running mergemaster. Try booting your machine in single-user mode and see if you can fix things this way. If you need help with the commands you can use while in single-user mode, feel free to ask here... - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message