Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:05:02 -0700 (PDT) From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single user mode buildwerld failures Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0704041001470.15464@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070404125452.M18358@fledge.watson.org> References: <20070403020736.8549C241BF@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0704040855350.15464@libra.sfsu.edu> <20070404125452.M18358@fledge.watson.org>
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install WORLD
failed. usage message..
then cd /usr/src; make installwerld also failed.
it said "required audit group is missing.. see /usr/src/UPDATING"
i am going to reboot into single user mode and follow these instructions
from /usr/src/UPDATING
now:
To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
-----------------------------------------------------------
# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more
than
# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
make buildworld
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
[1]
<reboot in single user> [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
make delete-old
mergemaster [4]
<reboot>
that failed. mergemaster -p complained that /var/tmp/temproot was a read
only filesystem
i tried a couple of options either involving deleting it or using it but
nothing werked.
i don't know what to do now.
You did not fsck and mount in single-user mode. After fsck -p ; mount -a ;
su - you will be able to use mergemaster and do installworld.
okay i followed the directions better with
fsck -p; mount -a; su -
they didn't seem to do anything so i wasn't tripping. fsck -p looked like
stuff that happened on
bootup.
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, doug wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>
>>
>> i didn't know what was happening when i dropped to single user
>> mode i got all these different prompts and i didn't know how
>> to answer the questions. i have posted information on
>> experts exchange:
>>
>> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Q_22484972.html
>>
>> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Q_22483843.html
>>
>> http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/System_Utilities/Diagnostics/Q_22470294.html
>>
>> currently, i feel i have found my /etc/passwd and restored it to the
>> proper location, but i still can't log on to my computer
>> _______________________________________________
> Post what happened here.
>
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