I just finished the upgrade from source from 9.0-BETA2 to RC1, and I find two problems.
First, I lost my users; nonroot user names are not recognized, if for instance I type passwd arlene I already tried to login as arlene with old password, no good. I copied the /etc directory to a backup on another disk cp -Rp /etc /media/etcbackup-BETA2 and then copied back /media/etcbackup-BETA2/passwd (and group) to /etc but that didn't help. Do I have to recreate nonroot users from scratch? Also, I got a warning about DBUS not starting. When I tried to startx as root, I got into X, but mouse and keyboard were nonfunctional; I did type Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-C to get out of X. I think it was the second mergemaster part. Should I, as root and X not running, do mv /etc /etcbackup-RC1 and cp -Rp /media/etcbackup-BETA2 /etc where /media would be mount point for backup partition on USB 3.0 hard drive? The second invocation of mergemaster (after booting single-user) can wreak havoc on /etc . As I type this, I am in my older installation of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 but have access to RC1 partition. By the way, /etc/rc.conf remained intact, showing that hald_enable and dbus_enable are still there: hostname="amelia2" keymap=us.iso.kbd ifconfig_re0="DHCP" ifconfig_re0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" sshd_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
