Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:47:19 -0800 From: Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Accidentally upgraded to 4.3-BETA; how do I fix problems Message-ID: <B6CEB997.1AB8%praxis@techpraxis.com>
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Hi folks, hoping that someone here can help us out. We have been happily running a FreeBSD 4.1 server for a year. No problems of any consequence. We upgraded to 4.2-RELEASE, via cvsup, no problems. A few days ago, we were running 4.2-RELEASE, and decided to upgrade to 4.2-STABLE. Our standard-supfile we configured to read, like normal: [in 'Defaults that apply to all connections'] *default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 [problem here??] *default delete use-rel-suffix And of course, in 'Main Source Tree' Src-all OK, well we cvsup'ed, built a new kernel, made world, merge differences-- There was a problem here, we may have overridden our original /etc files and we lost the tar we made of the original /etc... So now I've got, according to uname 4.3-BETA, Of which I can't find much mention anywhere on mailing lists or web.. How did this happen? Problems: First, X doesn't work at all. When starting x, we get: Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? [then...] _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =2 [again] [and finally it gives up] Xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Okay next problem. In /etc/rc.conf, I have inetd turned "off" Yet ps -aux | grep inetd yields: Root 105 0.0 0.2 1036 748 ?? Is 3:45PM 0:00.01 inetd What gives? Also, any other change I make to rc.conf, whether manually or with /stand/sysinstall, has no effect! This leads me to believe that the system is being controlled by other files. Okay, that's it for now, I'm sure I will get some "duh, you forgot the obvious" answers, but that's the price for upgrading to a BETA, even though it was (mea culpa) an accident... Forrest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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