After freebsd-update - all went wrong.

[Marwan Sultan]

Hi Poly,

 

 Its very short story,

 my system is on FreeBSD 7.2- P4

 and everything works great. Yes I have custom kernel, mainly for quotas.

 

 I have run freebsd-update fetch and install, I forgot its only for generic kernel.

 

 However, after the freebsd-update fetch/install done, i restarted my server

 then its down. Down means:

  its not connected to the internet because

 1- it couldnot read the default route and couldnot recognize its ip address.

 2- restored to the orginal GENERIC kernel.

 

 well, I have fixed problem two by installing back my custom kernel.

 but the system still ignores the "defaultroute" command in rc.conf

 this is why we have manuly added to the rc.local

 

 No, I have not overwrite any files, and everything works great, until i ran freebsd-update

 on my custom kernel by mistake.

 

 But eventho it shouldnot touch rc.conf right?

 

 my rc.local now has

route add default 66.xx.x.x
ifconfig em0 66.xx.x.x netmask 255.255.255.255 alias

 

If i take it off, system will not have any defaultroute anymore although its in rc.conf

defaultrouter="66.xx.x.x"
hostname="xxxxxx.com"
ifconfig_em0="inet 66.xx.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0"
 

 Thank you.

> Subject: Re: After freebsd-update - all went wrong.
> 
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:31:13 +0000, Marwan Sultan <dead_line at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > i'm on FreeBSD 7.2-R p4
> > I just applied :
> > # freebsd-update fetch
> > # freebsd-update install
> > with no problems
> 
> Later you mentioned that you run a custom kernel,
> especially for inclusion of quota. When using the
> freebsd-update tool, you have to pay extra attention
> to custom kernel - it usually just works for the
> GENERIC kernel without any modifications, that's
> what this tool primarily is intended for.
> 
> 
> 
> > After i restarted the server
> > i lost my ssh connection, server went down!
> 
> Server down OR "just" no connection?
> 
> 
> 
> > I have contacted the hosting company, and after investigation
> > they informed me that for some reason system is ignoring the
> > "defaulroute" command in rc.conf
> > So they had manualy add the defaultroute to rc.local !!
> 
> The use of rc.local is still possible, but deprecated;
> it's mostly a means for backward compatibility.
> 
> Furthermore, I don't see a "defaulroute" setting (not
> command per se) in /etc/rc.conf (and /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> for completeness); only things found are:
> 
> defaultrouter="NO" # Set to default gateway (or NO).
> ipv6_defaultrouter="NO" # Set to IPv6 default gateway (or NO).
> #ipv6_defaultrouter="2002:c058:6301::" # Use this for 6to4 (RFC 3068)
> 
> Is this what you mean?
> 
> Are you sure you didn't overwrite any important configuration
> file, like /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf or even rc.conf?
> 
> 
> 
> > And after this small workaround, I found out users quota is not running
> > So i figured that its ignoring the default kernel.
> 
> No, the GENERIC kernel just doesn't include quota
> functionality.
> 
> 
> 
> > I have recompiled my custom kernel..
> > Now quotas working!
> 
> Of course, yours seems to include it.
> 
> 
> > and system still 
> > FreeBSD xxx.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009
> 
> What should it be instead?
> 
> It would be nice if you could tell which version you
> came from, and which version you updated to.
> 
> Have you updated your src/ subtree, especially for the
> kernel sources? Seems that even if your system has been
> updated with freebsd-update to 8, your kernel has been
> compiled from the 7.2-p4 sources...
> 
> 
> 
> > it didnot even apply the patchs !!
> 
> Patches go into the src/ subtree when updating it, e. g.
> with "make update" in /usr/src (using csup or cvsup).
> 
> 
> 
> > and still reading the default route from rc.local
> 
> It would be helpful to see some config file examples.
> Maybe rc.local overrides things that should already work?
> 
> 
> 
> > This shouldnot happen with freebsd-update tool !! what the heck!
> 
> Wrong use of the right tool maybe?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

 		 	   		  
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