From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 9: 2:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9498637B801 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:02:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from pone.projectmayhem.info (adsl-63-197-41-53.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.197.41.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776B643E42 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unixverse@lecter.org) Received: from yourus67pi6luv (host184.thq.com [63.80.88.184]) by pone.projectmayhem.info (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id g9TG32OS000882 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unixverse@lecter.org) Message-ID: <000701c27f6c$f06dabf0$b858503f@yourus67pi6luv> From: "Jim Krenz" To: Subject: Problems with 4.7 upgrade (lost ownerships and users) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:02:11 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Last night, I tried to upgrade my tiny P1 machine from FreeBSD 4.6 to 4.7. I've upgraded the same machine from 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5, and haven't had problems until now. During the upgrade installation, one of the packages failed. Sorry, I didn't note it down. The installer said that the upgrade failed, and that 4.7 was not installed. Since it was late, I figured that I'd reboot, and try the install again tomorrow night. When I rebooted, the system appeared to be 4.7. All of my users were gone. Ownership of directories and files seem to have changed. And most important, root had no password attached. So, here is my main question: Should I, a relative *nix newbie, try to fix these issues? Or should I erase the disk, do a fresh install, and load up my settings and websites from the most recent backup? Thanks for any advice! Jim Jim Krenz unixverse@lecter.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message