Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:00:16 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Doug Kite <dkite@co.lenoir.nc.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 upgrade woes Message-ID: <36AC9510.EAB7F186@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <36AC912A.9E640722@co.lenoir.nc.us>
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Doug Kite wrote:
>
> First, the questions:
>
> 1. After upgrading from 2.2.5-RELEASE to 3.0-RELEASE, I am having to reset the
> password for each user. Is this normal? What might have caused this? Is there
> anything I can do to recover the old passwords?
>
> 2. Since the upgrade, every time I reboot ("shutdown -r now"), /etc/nologin is
> created, and I can't telnet in until I manually remove it. Is this a
> "feature", or is there some way to fix this?
>
> 3. If I upgrade via source from 3.0-RELEASE to 3.0-STABLE (which was my
> original intent--see saga below), should I use the "make aout-to-elf" option,
> or has the upgrade to 3.0 (done with sysinstall) already done this?
>
Well,
You got through - isn't it ?
I don't have the exact posts but I bet that you would find in the
archives of -current a more step-by-step way to upgrade.
Your way is a bit over-ambitious, going straight from an old 2.2 version
to the most recent 3.0 (considering all the changes that have been
made).
I would have first upgraded my machine via cvsup to the latest
2.2-Stable version, then upgraded to 3.0-Release (via aout-to-elf), then
once more upgraded to 3.0-Stable (this is exactly what I wanted to do
until I crashed my disk trying to have two complete FreeBSD partitions
on the same disk - I then installed a fresh 3.0-Release and I recovered
most of my data from a backup)
Furthermore, I you upgrade from source, beware of changes in /etc
TfH
> Now, the saga: (optional reading :-)
>
> I wanted to upgrade my system from 2.2.5-RELEASE to 3.0-STABLE. Downloaded the
> source tree with cvsup (first time I had used this), did a make
> aout-to-elf-build and a make aout-to-elf-install. Everything was going fine
> until aout-to-elf-install tried to rebuild the kernel. It gave a error that it
> could not install the kernel because my bootblocks and/or boot loader were not
> recent enough. I updated them with disklabel, but it still would not work.
> Then I thought maybe I needed to reboot so it would see the changes. BIG
> MISTAKE. Upon reboot, mount no longer worked. I guess this is because mount
> had been converted to elf, but the kernel was aout only (is this right??). I
> couldn't get a boot/fixit floppy setup to work (another story), so I just
> finally made a 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy, and did a binary install via ftp. That
> got the system working again, but I couldn't log in. So I shut down to single
> user mode. Eventually got / and /usr clean and mounted, ran passwd, and got
> back in. Whew. Can't believe I'm still contemplating a source upgrade to
> stable.
>
> If you are still with me, thanks for taking the time to read this long
> message.
>
> Any insights appreciated.
>
> Doug Kite
>
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