Got past installworld, new problems however [WASRe: make installworld fails with mergemaster errors - 4.4Rel upgrade to 4.6 Stable]
Hi Doug, Thanks for getting back to me. I actually got around that problem in the end. However upon completing the upgrade, I noticed a couple of things: 1] startx has stopped working (just XFree86-4.0.2 from the 4.4 CD Set, no gnome of kde installed as yet) typing startx for any user just sits there doing nothing (after 5 mins or so I killed it with cttrl c) 2] All user account except that for root disappeared. 3] During bootup apache failed with unable to find my FQDN. After login (as root) ps waux | grep httpd returns nothing. 4] The box does not ask me to enter a password when logging in as root on the console I'm not sure if this is the right way to get the above queries addressed, but let me know if I should post another to the list. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. Stacey Quoting Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just done a fresh install of 4.4Rel, and I'm trying to upgrade to the latest stable. In single user mode [using shutdown now] having dropped from multiuser mode - All went well until I got to make installworld. I hit the issue mentioned in UPDATING 20020404 about the new Sendmail user smmsp. I followed the advice to: cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make install clean The clean there is the problem. What UPDATING actually says is: cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make all install [clean] I'll delete that altogether, as it's misleading and potentially dangerous. -- We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory. - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Got past installworld, new problems however [WASRe: make installworld fails with mergemaster errors - 4.4Rel upgrade to 4.6 Stable]
Hello Brian, Thanks for the reply. As I'm actually still going through bringing the up to a usable state, the disappeared user accounts are not too much of a problem at the moment. Its the lack of authentication for root login I'm really concerned with on this point! I'll take a look at XFree86Config and check for anything untoward. I've not used ktrace, nor kdump before. Are they used in the same way as truss? However, as I do intend on upgrading XFree86 to XFree86-4.2.1 today, would it be more effective to re-install (remove install latest version), or simply upgrade the current version (via portupgrade)? ps waux - show process report, [-a: include all process with a tty session] + [-u: report user ID for each process listed] + [-w: show wide output] So, seeing that apache is configured to start on bootup, I would have expected to see a process called httpd running with variou runtime options listed in the returned process table - which of course, I don't. I really am hoping that I could aviod having the reinstall FBSD again here. This install's taken well over two days of debugging already:- initial install took the default XFree86-3.3.6x (didn't want that) The box hung at installation when I included gnome desktop (hence only XFree86-4.0.2 installed this time around) Well., thanks again for taking the time, Brian. Hope that what I've included here lights a few bulbs in a few peoples' heads before too long. Stacey Quoting Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Doug, |Thanks for getting back to me. I actually got around that problem in the | end. | | However upon completing the upgrade, I noticed a couple of things: | | 1] startx has stopped working (just XFree86-4.0.2 from the 4.4 CD Set, no | gnome of kde installed as yet) Hard to say. Does /etc/X11/XFree86Config look like it always did? Might want to ktrace/kdump and see what it's really calling. | typing startx for any user just sits there doing nothing (after 5 mins or | so I killed it with cttrl c) | | 2] All user account except that for root disappeared. Something went wrong with mergemaster. Perhaps you installed when you should have merged. (Or perhaps the problem is with the weird make stuff you cite below. I don't believe that I ever did anything of the sort and things worked ok for me.) Regardless, the solution is simple: Restore your /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd from backup. | 3] During bootup apache failed with unable to find my FQDN. After login | (as root) ps waux | grep httpd returns nothing. Sorry, that's Greek to me. | 4] The box does not ask me to enter a password when logging in as root on | the console See [2] above. | I'm not sure if this is the right way to get the above queries addressed, | but let me know if I should post another to the list. This is a good place for . . . well, questions. | Thanks again for taking the time to respond. | | Stacey | | Quoting Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello, | I've just done a fresh install of 4.4Rel, and I'm trying to | | upgrade to | | the latest stable. | | In single user mode [using shutdown now] having dropped from multiuser | | mode - | | All went well until I got to make installworld. I hit the issue | | mentioned in | | UPDATING 20020404 about the new Sendmail user smmsp. I followed the | | advice to: | cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make install clean | | The clean there is the problem. What UPDATING actually says is: | | cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make all install [clean] | | I'll delete that altogether, as it's misleading and potentially | dangerous. | | -- | We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. |And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory. |- George W. Bush, President of the United States |State of the Union, January 28, 2002 | | Do YOU Yahoo!? | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Got past installworld, new problems however [WASRe: make installworld fails with mergemaster errors - 4.4Rel upgrade to 4.6 Stable]
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Doug, |Thanks for getting back to me. I actually got around that problem in the | end. | | However upon completing the upgrade, I noticed a couple of things: | | 1] startx has stopped working (just XFree86-4.0.2 from the 4.4 CD Set, no | gnome of kde installed as yet) Hard to say. Does /etc/X11/XFree86Config look like it always did? Might want to ktrace/kdump and see what it's really calling. | typing startx for any user just sits there doing nothing (after 5 mins or | so I killed it with cttrl c) | | 2] All user account except that for root disappeared. Something went wrong with mergemaster. Perhaps you installed when you should have merged. (Or perhaps the problem is with the weird make stuff you cite below. I don't believe that I ever did anything of the sort and things worked ok for me.) Regardless, the solution is simple: Restore your /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd from backup. | 3] During bootup apache failed with unable to find my FQDN. After login | (as root) ps waux | grep httpd returns nothing. Sorry, that's Greek to me. | 4] The box does not ask me to enter a password when logging in as root on | the console See [2] above. | I'm not sure if this is the right way to get the above queries addressed, | but let me know if I should post another to the list. This is a good place for . . . well, questions. | Thanks again for taking the time to respond. | | Stacey | | Quoting Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello, | I've just done a fresh install of 4.4Rel, and I'm trying to | | upgrade to | | the latest stable. | | In single user mode [using shutdown now] having dropped from multiuser | | mode - | | All went well until I got to make installworld. I hit the issue | | mentioned in | | UPDATING 20020404 about the new Sendmail user smmsp. I followed the | | advice to: | cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make install clean | | The clean there is the problem. What UPDATING actually says is: | | cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make all install [clean] | | I'll delete that altogether, as it's misleading and potentially | dangerous. | | -- | We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. |And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory. | - George W. Bush, President of the United States |State of the Union, January 28, 2002 | | Do YOU Yahoo!? | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Got past installworld, new problems however [WASRe: make installworld fails with mergemaster errors - 4.4Rel upgrade to 4.6 Stable]
Hi Jud, Thanks for the information here. I'll check those files as and when I get the chance. The wrapper port *was* installed, and WORKING before I cvsup'd the system. I'll check .xinitrc files in both root and any of the restored user accounts. Stacey Quoting Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 7/24/2002 4:06:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks for the reply. As I'm actually still going through bringing the up to a usable state, the disappeared user accounts are not too much of a problem at the moment. Its the lack of authentication for root login I'm really concerned with on this point! I'll take a look at XFree86Config and check for anything untoward. I've not used ktrace, nor kdump before. Are they used in the same way as truss? However, as I do intend on upgrading XFree86 to XFree86-4.2.1 today, would it be more effective to re-install (remove install latest version), or simply upgrade the current version (via portupgrade)? ps waux - show process report, [-a: include all process with a tty session] + [-u: report user ID for each process listed] + [-w: show wide output] So, seeing that apache is configured to start on bootup, I would have expected to see a process called httpd running with variou runtime options listed in the returned process table - which of course, I don't. I really am hoping that I could aviod having the reinstall FBSD again here. This install's taken well over two days of debugging already:- initial install took the default XFree86-3.3.6x (didn't want that) The box hung at installation when I included gnome desktop (hence only XFree86-4.0.2 installed this time around) Well., thanks again for taking the time, Brian. Hope that what I've included here lights a few bulbs in a few peoples' heads before too long. Stacey Quoting Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Doug, |Thanks for getting back to me. I actually got around that problem in the | end. | | However upon completing the upgrade, I noticed a couple of things: | | 1] startx has stopped working (just XFree86-4.0.2 from the 4.4 CD Set, no | gnome of kde installed as yet) Hard to say. Does /etc/X11/XFree86Config look like it always did? Might want to ktrace/kdump and see what it's really calling. | typing startx for any user just sits there doing nothing (after 5 mins or | so I killed it with cttrl c) | | 2] All user account except that for root disappeared. Something went wrong with mergemaster. Perhaps you installed when you should have merged. (Or perhaps the problem is with the weird make stuff you cite below. I don't believe that I ever did anything of the sort and things worked ok for me.) Regardless, the solution is simple: Restore your /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd from backup. | 3] During bootup apache failed with unable to find my FQDN. After login | (as root) ps waux | grep httpd returns nothing. Sorry, that's Greek to me. | 4] The box does not ask me to enter a password when logging in as root on | the console See [2] above. Sounds like (after taking Brian's advice) you may want to do /stand/sysinstall (as root) and choose the option to add users. Check the www group in /etc/groups after you do this to add anyone you want to be able to use Apache. Apache is looking for your fully qualified domain name - I'd look in /etc/hosts to see if you need to add back anything there that may have been lost in the upgrade. Re startx, after you have a look at the X11 config and get your users straightened out, you'll want to reinstall wrapper from X11 ports. Oh, and BTW, do you still have .xinitrc files in root and $HOME? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Got past installworld, new problems however [WASRe: make installworld fails with mergemaster errors - 4.4Rel upgrade to 4.6 Stable]
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Brain, |Thanks for getting back to me. No problem. | | I'm happy to at last find someone who is willing to at least *say* that | he's blasted and reinstalled a higher version of XFree86-4. | | From what you said here, I'll probably want to go with a packages install | as well. | | I strongly recomemnd deintalling via 'pkg_delete X*' (you can use | pkg_info | first to be sure that this will deinstall what you expect) and then | re-installing. Actually, I'd probably install from packages rather than | | ports, it's a lot quicker. Heck, I *know* I'd do it that way because I | *did* | do it that way just four days ago. The pkg_add -r didn't work right for | | XFree86-4 because it was looking the wrong place, but if you make it | look for | All packages instead of Latest you should be golden. | | How exactly do you specify to pkd_add to look for ALL instead the latest? | And which version would it then return? Check the man page for pkg_add, but there's an environement variable you set for the place to look. I forget what the default is, but just run it with the defaults and if it works, great--somebody fixed something since Saturday. If it fails, then set the environemnt variable to the same as the default path only change the /Latest at the end to /All, and it will install (at least of Saturday) XFree86-4.2.0_1,1. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
make installworld fails with mergemaster errors - 4.4Rel upgrade to 4.6 Stable
Hello, I've just done a fresh install of 4.4Rel, and I'm trying to upgrade to the latest stable. In single user mode [using shutdown now] having dropped from multiuser mode - All went well until I got to make installworld. I hit the issue mentioned in UPDATING 20020404 about the new Sendmail user smmsp. I followed the advice to: cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make install clean mergemaster -p I used the i option to install each of the temporary files that appeared. I then ran make installworld, which fails with the following: === usr/sbin/mergemaster install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 mergemaster8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 install: mergemaster.8.gz : No such file or directory *** Error Code 71 Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster. *** Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin. *** Error Code 1 Can someone help with this please? If its documented in UPDATING, I figure there should be a procedure out of this out there. Stacey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
