From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 5:33:20 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 3563037B400 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 05:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shipka.solar.com.br (shipka.solar.com.br [200.199.212.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 569E043E65 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 05:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbrummer@solar.com.br) Received: (qmail 16271 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2002 09:32:48 -0300 Received: from 200-181-93-092-bsace7011.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br (HELO compaq) (200.181.93.92) by shipka.solar.com.br with SMTP; 14 Sep 2002 09:32:48 -0300 Reply-To: From: "Bernardo M. Brummer" To: Subject: 4.7 upgrade problems Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:32:22 -0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 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 After upgrading (with CVSUP) from 4.6-RC to 4.7-Prerelease, my system is not booting properly any more (bad mergemaster choise ?). In the booting sequence, when it comes at executing the "init" command, the system enters a loop repeating this error message: "init: can't exec getty /usr/ /usr/libexec/getty for port /dev/ttyv1 (and goes on with ttyv2, v3 ... v2, v1, v0, v6 ... non-stop) No such file or directory" Entering with "boot -s" I see that "/usr/libexec/getty" and "/dev/ttyv1 ... vn" are there but that /dev/MAKEDEV is empty (??). What could help to bring it back ? Getting another /dev/MAKEDEV (where from ?) and remaking the devices ?. Reinstalling the whole OS ?, would take quite long as I only have the 4.5-RELEASE CD, BTW: /usr/tmp/etc was overwritten while trying to recover using /stand/sysinstall. Any hints ? Bernardo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message