> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 16:34:19 -0300 > From: Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Pascal, > > Much thanks! > > On Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 14:11:13 +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 03:48 -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: > > > Has anyone else encountered local rc scripts running > > > twice? I thought I saw something about this on one > > > of the @freebsd.org lists but my search efforts haven't > > > located it yet. > > > > In assuming "local rc scripts" means anything installed by ports ... i > > am assuming you installed a fresh Xorg-7.2 and now at some point ended > > up with the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local symlink. > > > > If the above assumption holds true ... did you run the mergebase.sh > > script as suggested in /usr/ports/UPDATING ? > > > > The above assumptions are correct and mergebase.sh did run. > > > Most significantly .. this script adds the following entry to > > your /etc/rc.conf > > > > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" > > > > This was the problem. Adding this to my /etc/rc.conf manually > fixed everything up for me. Thanks! > > > > > The default entry in /etc/defaults/rc.conf still > > references /usr/X1R6/etc/rc.d as well ... since the latter is now a > > symlink to the former, both rc.d-paths contain the same scripts. > > > > If your rc.conf doesn't contain the aforementioned entry, that would > > explain why local rc-scripts are started twice. > > > > Yeah, that does it explain it. The mergebase.sh script failed > unfortunately and I needed to take manual steps to complete > the upgrade process. > > When the script failed due to conflicting files I deleted the > files that were listed, re-ran the script, got the same conflicts, > and then created the symlink myself. Unfortunately, the rc.conf > entry didn't get added as well. I am left wondering if other > things that were supposed to happen did not happen. > > When operator error complicates matters, as it has in this case, > no script can deal with all possible scenarios. So, to all the > people who worked on making this upgrade happen, please don't > take this as a criticism of the script or upgrade process
If ./etc is mounted read-only, the file is not updated and I got no warning about the failure from the script. As a result I need to hand-edit both rc.conf and periodic to fix stuff properly. I don't suspect having a RO /etc is all that common, but I am sure others will hit this, too. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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