Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:04:35 -0700 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. Message-ID: <20020913000435.GB6393@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <20020912235957.59495.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020912075524.GA62898@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020912235957.59495.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 at 16:59:57 -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > --- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > > Aha. Your problem is that you're missing a few of the collections > > required to buildworld correctly (src-release, src-tools, > > src-crypto, ...). Replace all of the above with: > > > > src-all > > > > Recvsup, and let us know how your buildworld goes this time.. > > okay... i did what you said, but i still got the errors. so i > completely deleted /usr/src and then recvsup'd and tried again. > > fortunately, i had success... unfortunately, the system will not > accept any user passwords... so i'm for all intents and purposes > locked out of the system. This would only happen if you spammed over your password file during mergemaster instead of examining it and merging the changes. Time to restore it from your backup. You do have one, don't you? Btw, you could also read the FAQ. It tells you how to reset the root password if you forget or lose it. - jim -- jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org> jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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