MAJOR PROBLEM!!!

RedDawn · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:13 am Post subject: MAJOR PROBLEM!!!

i did emerge -u world

and it finishsed with now problems at all.... everything compiled without a glitch now what worries me is that it told 83 configuration files needed updtating!! so id did thsi

etc-update it asekd some stuff and i picked -3

it asked someother stuff so all i did was ( question? y =enter)
and know i cant access root my password DOES NOT WORk

my fstab has changed so I KNOW MY COMPUTER WONT BOOT UP ANYMORE!

i dont know what to do please help thankss

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

Well, to get around both of those problems, you could boot from a LiveCD, chroot into your actual install (the same way that you did when you first installed), and use 'passwd' to change root's password, and edit your fstab from there...

But the moral of the story? Never blindly update *anything* ^_^

RedDawn · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:23 am Post subject: Ok it worked!!

how can i fix this though??

bash-2.05b# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
* Bringing eth0 up...
10.192.168.1.: Host name lookup failure
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
* Failed to bring eth0 up

i want to get static ip just like i did before emerge -u world but now it give me that error when i do it??

how can i fix it!! thanks!

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

Take a look at /etc/conf.d/net....

What you did when you auto-updated things without checking them was over-write ALL of your machine-specific configuration settings...so anything you changed during install or after, you're likely going to have to set again...