Hi,

I have been lurking on the list for a while, but had let my RISC BSD
installation fall further and further behind until I have just
obtained myself a shark (thanks to a mate who I won't name for fear of
getting him deluged in requests).

When I got the system it was all set up and booting from an internal
harddisc, and happily running X but only with 1.2G kernel.

So, I decided to upgrade it to the latest snapshot on the ftp site.

1) I downloaded the UVM kernel from August and that worked fine.

2) I downloaded the corresponding snapshots.

3) I backed up (or so I thought) the existing set up on the drive to
/usr/backup. (Turns out I missed quite a few bits here - serves me
right for doing that at 1am!)

4) I unpacked the snapshots and copied them over, being as careful as
I could with all the stuff in /etc.

I now have a system that still appears to work, but:

1) On bootup it complains about /dev/ttyv1 thru 5 not being
configured. I have checked and they exist in /dev, and in /etc/ttys,
and the values there look plausible to me (unchanged from the
snapshot).

I have tried doing a ./MAKEDEV all in /dev to see if anything there
was wrong, but the same problem is still given.

[As a minor question, what is the correct response to give to the
terminal type prompt for a console on a shark?]

2) X won't work any more. None of the snapshots I downloaded appear to
include X, so the version of X on the disc should be exactly the same
as the one that was working before.

When I do startx, it gets as far as listing the fontpath then bombs
out complaining:

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I don't think this is the same problem as was discussed recently on
the net, as none of the X setup should have changed. I am just
expecting too much to hope that the same version of X will work?

To see if it was the kernel that was the problem, I tried reverting to
the older kernel, but even sh won't work like that (because its
non-UVM, and the binaries are? or its out of date w.r.t the binaries
anyway).

So, can anyone enlighten me please? Do I need to get a new X
distribution (and if so, where from?), or have I just broken my system
in some stupid way?

Thanks,

Robin
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