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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 12:27:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
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Subject: Re: blown install
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Bill Beavers wrote:

> I decided last night that due to all my PPP problems, to just go ahead 
> and upgrade from 2.1.7 to 2.2.5.
> 
> Everything was as smooth as silk until it got done and said you do not 
> have an rc.conf file and this is decidely irregular or something like 
> that and went on to say your system may act strangely.  Well, strangely 
> is not exactly the word.  When I rebooted, I get to a login prompt but 
> cannot log in as root, or anybody!

Hm. I bet you forgot to install DES this time when you did last time.

> Is this whole upgrade hosed?  Do I have to start over with a new install 
> and trash all my previous files and setups?

Boot with the -s option to get single user mode and run the following:

mount -u /
mount -a

That will get your filesystems back.

Then run `vipw' and make sure the password file is OK.  Take a look at the
passwords: if they don't start with $1$ you need to fetch & install the
`des' distribution.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major