Complete loss of network on 6_STABLE

[Drew]

On 4/13/07, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg at webanoide.org> wrote:
>
> Drew wrote:
> > I have a 6 stable box that I cvsup'd at around 5:15am central US time
> this
> > morning. I did a buildworld and buildkernel on it after checking the
> > UPDATING file and finding nothing since 6.2 release, ran mergemaster and
> > rebooted, so I was a little surprised when it never came back. Once I
> gained
> > physical access to the box, I discovered it had no apparent ability to
> open
> > a sock - neither unix, nor udp nor tcp. I can ping localhost, but not
> other
> > IP's on my network. X tells me host.domain.name:0 is a bad display name.
> So
> > I need to know how to get things back up and running. Is this a known
> > problem that has been fixed, or have I stumbled across something no one
> else
> > has seen? As a side note, I have to give major props to all the
> developers -
> > it sounds like my situation is really bad, but this is the first major
> > problem I've had in over 7 years of tracking -STABLE of one version or
> > another. Let me know if I can just cvsup another 6-stable box and burn
> it to
> > a disc and copy it off on here, or what I need to do to fix this,
> because
> > I'm lost. For the record:
> >
> > mergemaster -p
> > make buildworld
> > make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel
> > make installworld
> > make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel
> > mergemaster -a
> > reboot
> >
> > came up with no sockets. At this point:
> >
> > rm -rf /usr/obj
> > make clean
> > make buildworld ...etc - still no sockets.
>
>
> The proper upgrading procedure is described in /usr/src/Makefile
> (starting from line ~41). Also check the handbook:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
> By executing "mergemaster -a" you don't actually merge the files. This
> may not update important files.
>
> If you're using customised kernel, then probably you took something
> important out of it. Try GENERIC to rule this one out.
>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Sorry, I had to go back and read my message to see what was there. I've
> never used -a in my life, and I can only blame that not being a -v on all
> the trouble I'm having with the keyboard on my wife's laptop. I don't know
> how she types on this thing. But I'm building a generic kernel and we'll try
> that.
>