From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 20 17:48:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A9637B655 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 17:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbsypher@uchicago.edu) Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (root@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28832 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 19:48:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cerberus (broad-208-049.rh.uchicago.edu [128.135.208.49]) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA29887 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 19:48:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000520193514.00b956b0@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> X-Sender: dbsypher@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 19:48:40 -0600 To: stable@freebsd.org From: David Syphers Subject: make world kills passwords? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what. I did a 'make world', made and installed a new kernel, ran mergemaster, rebooted, and now I can't log in (as root or as a user). This has happened to me before (but only on 4-stable). I know I can use boot -s, but that shouldn't be part of a normal make world, and I'm assuming it's not. What am I doing wrong? (BTW, I noted that mergemaster didn't touch the password file.) -David Charon@freethought.org http://www.seektruth.org/ It makes me angry to have people bury me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message