On 27/10/2011 11:22, Thomas Mueller wrote: > 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. Other people have suggested what you have done to loose them. To get them back you need /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd possibly /etc/group
There should be a handy backup in /var/backups Also you will need to remake the db files, see man pwd_mkdb Vince > > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
