From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 08:20:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8B616A40A for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:20:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antik@bsd.ee) Received: from smtp-gw1.starman.ee (smtp-out5.starman.ee [85.253.0.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C17313C46E for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:20:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antik@bsd.ee) Received: from mx1.starman.ee (mx1.starman.ee [62.65.192.16]) by smtp-gw1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76698A21CB2 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:20:47 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.2.100] (pc158.host1.ida.starman.ee [62.65.240.158]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6494023C53C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:20:47 +0300 (EEST) From: Andrei Kolu To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:20:46 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070403020736.8549C241BF@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca> <1175804482.46155a4211b0f@webmail.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704181120.47269.antik@bsd.ee> X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Subject: Re: can't jump to superuser after buildwerld X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:20:49 -0000 On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:26, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > okay. i am getting a serious stomach ache. i am looking at this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > and my head is spinning. i don't feel good. i am halfway thru doing > something or other sorta the wrong way. right now i got a prompt.. i > am running xfce4, but i can't jump to superuser. i push the button > and the laptop shuts down when i want it to. the thing is when > i did mergemaster -p i got into big problems i don't understand why. > this guy told me how to do vipw like this: > > TeRReF: > In single user mode: > > mount -a > /usr/sbin/vipw > > then use this inside vipw: > :wq > > That should do it... > > that helped a lot.. umm.. i felt stupid i guess. i have been using vi for > 20 years.. but still.. i really needed this. i feel i need something like > this for mergemaster - p or whatever step i should start from. i am > sorry for being so stupid. > Looks like you overwrote your /etc/group file and removed yourself from wheel group. ----------------------------------------------------------- wheel:*:0:root,yourname ........ operator:*:5:root,yourname ----------------------------------------------------------- So be more careful next time you update your base system.