Re: 5.2.1 boot question

From: Doug White (dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com)
Date: 06/22/04

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
    To: Darin <derwood@naebunny.net>
    
    

    On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Darin wrote:

    > I've been working on getting a system ready for my daughter to use, and have
    > run into a problem.
    >
    > The system is running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 that was cvsuped yesterday.
    >
    > The problem was caused by the Kuser app that I installed as part of the KDE3
    > port. For some reason it set all of the accounts on the system to expired,
    > including root. I was able to fix the problem by rebuilding spwd.db and
    > pwd.db with pwd_mkdb. So, I can log on again and su to root to finish up
    > any ports that I need to compile in.

    This was a known bug with that package build, sadly. Any recent build
    has a fix.

    > However, when the machine boots, I get the following on the screen and in
    > /var/log/messages:
    >
    >
    > Jun 19 14:17:41 dell1 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
    > Jun 19 14:17:41 dell1 kernel: term R *Handler Int

    Somewhere you have 'sysctl sysctl' running, which is probably in
    /etc/sysctl.conf. Make sure they're just name=value pairs and not full
    sysctl commands.

    -- 
    Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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