Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/01/10 15:55, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> Look, as far as emergencies go, I have the orignal Linux OS sitting in >> back as a emergency, >> > > boot> bsd.rd > then you can do an upgrade install. > > >> I could reinstall everything, or maybe just my /etc/ but could anyone >> give me guesses as to what sort of screwup I perpetrated, so as to >> keep me from getting logged in? Else, I will probably do this again, >> and I really, really like to learn from my mistakes, you know? >> > > you don't say which versions were involved, but if you installed 4.0 > and then did a 'make build' of -current source, that's one problem - > unlike FreeBSD the procedure here is to do a binary upgrade to the > nearest -current snapshot before "make build". > > it's an arm arch:- N.B. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20061227 > (besides the snapshot install of the system binaries, there will be more > to do if you changed your shell to something from packages). > > > I should have responded sooner, but a nice guy onb the irc channel gave me the hint that my shell was probably bad, which really madee me feel like an idiot for not seeinbg it myself. I rebuilt the shell and things are going fine.
