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Subject: conf/4738: Upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA messes up /etc, complains on /etc/fstab
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>Number:         4738
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA messes up /etc, complains on /etc/fstab
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 10 02:40:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Nadav Eiron
>Organization:
Bar-Code Computers Ltd.
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-971005-BETA i386
>Environment:

	A 2.2.2-RELEASE machine, upgrading to 2.2.5-971005-BETA.
	Installing from a file system (containing the complete directory from
	releng22-freebsd.org). This machine started its life in 2.1.0-RELEASE
	days and was updated by this very method (or from CDs) through most
	RELEASES and BETAS/GAMMAS ever since (hardware also upgraded along
	the way, but I don't think it matters).
	Hardware config: DEC Venturis 5166, 166MHz Pentium, 48MB RAM, two EIDE
	disks (1.6GB, 850MB), one x8 Creative Labs CD, DEC DE500-AA fast
	ethernet.

>Description:

	When upgrading using the boot floppy for the new BETA, after the file
	copying phase is over, the installation program complained that it
	cannot find /etc/fstab, and thus will not modify it. Checking with
	the holographic shell shows that /etc/fstab is alive and well in place.
	It then complains that it cannot find my old /etc/group, 
	/etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd files and will thus create new ones.
	Then it goes on to the "updating /etc files" phase. The net result:
	/etc/fstab remains as it was.
	/etc/group, passwd, master.passwd and mostly everything else in /etc
	are the fresh new versions (what would normally go into /etc/upgrade).
	/etc/upgrade is *empty*. /usr/tmp/etc is alive and well with my old
	files intact (thanks goodness) in it.


>How-To-Repeat:

	Do an upgrade from a 2.2.2RELEASE machine??? (don't know, have just two
	more such machines to upgrade, and I'll only get to it next week,
	probably with a newer BETA).

>Fix:
	
	

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