make world issue

[Joshua Oreman]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:49:22AM -0800 or thereabouts, Thanjee Neefam wrote:
> I was playing around with one of my machines (non mission-critical -
> mainly used for experimenting) and I decided to try updating my sources.
> I am running 5.0r. I didn't have any sources on my machine (other than
> kernel) so I used /stand/sysinstall to add all sources. I then used cvsup
> with the standard-supfile to update all sources. I then did a make world,
> make kernel and rebooted.
> 
> When I logged back in again, root no longer had a password, my users were
> gone, and other settings were reset such as the ppp.conf and ttys. Other
> settings like X11/XF86Config were fine. Now I can slowly fix all the
> mixing parts and reedit conf files, but I would just like to know why
> most of them were reset? 
> I think the reason it broke was because /stand/sysinstall overwrote my
> config files when I added all sources. Is this assumption correct?

NO. /stand/sysinstall is quite careful about not overwriting your config
files.

> Or did
> I perhaps lose them at a later stage? Is there someway for this not to
> happen in the future?

You did not read /usr/src/UPDATING. Read the procedure, ALL of it. I think
you forgot to run `mergemaster', or you just said "overwrite everything".

-- Josh

> 
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> Thanjee
> 
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