From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 08:10:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03077 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02954 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:09:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA31235; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:09:25 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA18396; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:06:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA20902; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:48:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08309; Mon, 25 Jan 99 16:55:38 +0100 Message-Id: <36AC9510.EAB7F186@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:00:16 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Kite Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 upgrade woes References: <36AC912A.9E640722@co.lenoir.nc.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message