From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 2 0:38:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB25237B401; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A86743EA9; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (keramida@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB28ckx3087296; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB28cjmh087292; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:45 -0800 (PST) From: Giorgos Keramidas Message-Id: <200212020838.gB28cjmh087292@freefall.freebsd.org> To: shelton@sentry.granch.ru, keramida@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, keramida@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/45906: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: keramida State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 2 00:35:40 PST 2002 State-Changed-Why: This is not a bug. The documented way of upgrading from source includes booting into single-user mode before running mergemaster. When in single-user mode kern.securelevel hasn't been raised, yet. You will have no problems then. Even for remote machines, that booting single-user is impossible, you can teamporarily disable kern.securelevel in your /etc/rc.conf and installworld from multi-user mode. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->keramida Responsible-Changed-By: keramida Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 2 00:35:40 PST 2002 Responsible-Changed-Why: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=45906 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message