From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 17: 4:39 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 CEDBF37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45F5143E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: (qmail 21202 invoked by uid 1111); 13 Sep 2002 00:04:35 -0000 Date: 12 Sep 2002 17:04:35 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:04:35 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. Message-ID: <20020913000435.GB6393@soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <20020912075524.GA62898@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020912235957.59495.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020912235957.59495.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Thu, 12 Sep 2002 at 16:59:57 -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > --- Jonathan Chen 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 jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message