Login broken and rc.conf variables suddenly invalid after kernel/world upgrade (?!?!)

[Garrett Cooper]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> writes:
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>>By the way, I also ran mergemaster as shown above. I forgot to
>>originally include that.
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>Did you also forget to mention building and installing the new kernel
>before the reboot?  If you actually left that step out, it would
>explain much of your trouble.
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Yes, I forgot to include that as well. I did that prior to building and 
installing world (and I don't think that would have interfered since the 
kernel is a standalone deal I thought).