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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!lirwin From: lirwin@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Loren Irwin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: pkg_add hosed me! Date: 10 Jul 1994 22:59:46 GMT Organization: California State University Sacramento Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2vpuh2$mfg@news.csus.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaze.csci.csusb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I just installed FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, upgrading from an earlier version. (Bravo to the FreeBSD team!) It went pretty smoothly, and I compiled the kernel and got ppp working. I decided to add some packages, and installed a few without problems. Then I did a pkg_add xftp_bin.tgz and this did a nasty thing: It looks like it did a chmod -R 444 / Every thing on the whole tree was changed to -r--r--r-. So then I couldn't run any commands; I had to hit the red button, then it wouldn't boot even in single user mode: panic, init died. I had run the pkg_add command from the root directory, was that the problem, or is there something funny with xftp_bin.tgz? Thanks, ------ Loren Irwin lirwin@silicon.csci.csusb.edu