From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 4 17:04:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24411 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme59.sunshine.net [204.191.204.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24403 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:04:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00266; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:03:54 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:03:20 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: Bill Beavers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blown install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! > Is this whole upgrade hosed? Do I have to start over with a new install > and trash all my previous files and setups? > Or is there some magic that can get me in so that I can login as root and > get my /etc/group file fixed back up? > Man am I depressed :-( Don't be 2.1.7 to 2.2.5 would probably mean that it replaced your old /etc files (and that would include sysconfig) and moved the new to /etc/upgrade. That is probably where rc.conf will be found. > ........................................ > . Bill Beavers, Technology Coordinator . > . Arch Ford Education Coop . > . bbeavers@moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us . > . http://moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us . > ........................................ -- FreeBSD Kevin G Eliuk Kicking the S out of DO .