today's build is causing errors for me

[Rob Lytle]

Hi Jeremy,

I used Mergemaster.  Thats what I mean't when I said that I carefully
"merged" /usr/src/etc/ with /etc.  But like I said, no files were
replaced that contained my own configuration, e.g. group.  I will say
this- that I have always considered Mergemaster a confusing mess,
despite the dogma on the lists.  I have been running FreeBSD and
installing it since 1998, so I have some experience- but this is new
behavior beyond my previous experiences.

Sincerely,  Rob.



On 5/15/08, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 04:44:57PM -0700, Rob Lytle wrote:
>> First I am running 7.0-Stable and just cvsup'd today.  Then I built the
>> system, new kernel, and installed them.  Second I am using the GENERIC
>> KERNEL.  Sysctl.conf is empty.  I will put my /etc/rc.conf at the end.  I
>> tried to do a very careful job of merging /usr/src/etc with /etc.  I
>> didn't
>> touch any files that I or the computer configured.
>>
>> But I am getting these errors upon bootup:
>>
>> 1.  eval: /etc/rc.d/cleanvar: Permission Denied
>> 2.  syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address.  (repeated twice)
>> 3.  syslogd: child pid 134 exited with return code 1
>> 4.  /etc/rc:  Warning:  Dump device does not exist.  Savecore will not
>> run.   (this always worked before)
>> 5.  /etc/rc.d/securelevel:  /etc/rc.d/sysctl:  Permission denied.
>> 6.  My computer says "Amnesiac" yet the host name is clearly in rc.conf
>> 7.  My WiFi no longer starts up by myself.  I have to do it all manually
>> using ifconfig and dhclient.
>
> You should have followed the instructions in /usr/src/Makefile.  You
> don't "merge things by hand".  You can use mergemaster for that.  Please
> use it, as I'm willing to bet there's a portion of your rc framework
> which is broken in some way.
>
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