today's build is causing errors for me

[Jeremy Chadwick]

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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