Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-20 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, John Nemeth wrote: On Oct 20, 6:38am, Paul Goyette wrote: } On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, John Nemeth wrote: } } } * I have to load the kernel from an external partition using grub, and } }thus have to edit grub's menu.lst config file! } } } } * The booted kernel is

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-19 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Fredrik Pettai wrote: If you haven't tried them yet, I'd recommend using jmmv's sysbuild sysupgrade tools (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/introducing_sysbuild_and_sysupgrade) for consistent builds upgrades without much manual interventions... Looks interesting. Of

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-19 Thread John Nemeth
On Oct 19, 5:32pm, Paul Goyette wrote: } On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Fredrik Pettai wrote: } } If you haven't tried them yet, I'd recommend using jmmv's sysbuild } sysupgrade tools } (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/introducing_sysbuild_and_sysupgrade) } for consistent builds upgrades without

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-19 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, John Nemeth wrote: } * I have to load the kernel from an external partition using grub, and }thus have to edit grub's menu.lst config file! } } * The booted kernel is independent of what is in /netbsd, so I currently }have to manually gunzip(1) the kernel on the

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-19 Thread John Nemeth
On Oct 20, 6:38am, Paul Goyette wrote: } On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, John Nemeth wrote: } } } * I have to load the kernel from an external partition using grub, and } }thus have to edit grub's menu.lst config file! } } } } * The booted kernel is independent of what is in /netbsd, so I currently

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Patrick Welche
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:14:34AM +, Paul Goyette wrote: It's not at all clear to me where maildrop directory is. And it is also not clear to me why this is broken, since I took great pains to avoid modifying the postfix {master,main}.cf files during etcupdate. I hit that last week - I

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Paul Goyette
It's not at all clear to me where maildrop directory is. And it is also not clear to me why this is broken, since I took great pains to avoid modifying the postfix {master,main}.cf files during etcupdate. I hit that last week - I think it is a change postfix... $ ls -ld

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Havard Eidnes
It's not at all clear to me where maildrop directory is. And it is also not clear to me why this is broken, since I took great pains to avoid modifying the postfix {master,main}.cf files during etcupdate. I hit that last week - I think it is a change postfix... $ ls -ld

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Ian D. Leroux
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:14:34 + (UTC) Paul Goyette pgoye...@mail.netbsd.org wrote: I _know_ I'm using the correct root password, but still I get su: Sorry: authentication error And, in /var/log/authlog I get su: BAD SU paul to root on /dev/pts/1: authentication error

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Paul Goyette
Ooopppsss! red-face Seems like I forgot the -p option when untarring the distribution sets! Turns out that /usr/bin/su was also missing the Set-UID bit, and fixing that make su(1) work again, too! Thanks for all the quick rpelies that led to finding the solution. On Sat, 18 Oct 2014,

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Havard Eidnes
Ooopppsss! red-face Seems like I forgot the -p option when untarring the distribution sets! Been there, done that, wasn't too pleasant... :) Regards, - HÃ¥vard

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread scar
Paul Goyette wrote on 10/18/2014 03:14 AM: run etcupdate snip su: Sorry: authentication error well i know i was asked if i wanted to update /etc/passwd which would have messed up my users and passwords, and there was one other file too that looked like it contained some auth info,

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread scar
Ah, nevermind, i see you found the problem. sorry didn't notice until later because the thread got broken up somehow

Re: Problemns after updating from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5

2014-10-18 Thread Paul Goyette
I carefully merge my password and groups files... :) As I reported earlier, I forgot the -p option for tar, so it didn't set any [SG]uid permission bits. On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, scar wrote: Paul Goyette wrote on 10/18/2014 03:14 AM: run etcupdate snip su: Sorry: authentication