Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:22:17 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org Subject: Re: problem with chflags Message-ID: <20010601142217.F30589@malkavian.org> In-Reply-To: <20010601140537.A24948@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:05:37PM -0700 References: <20010601100025.C30589@malkavian.org> <200106012006.NAA17049@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20010601135419.E30589@malkavian.org> <20010601140537.A24948@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:54:19PM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote: > > correct me if i'm wrong, but shutdown(8) with no arguments should get the > > system into single user with all the filesystems still mounted and allow > > the 'make installworld' command to run without having to mess with > > mounting/remounting filesystems. > > This will get you to single user but the reboot step is absolutly > critical if you want you're system to complete the installworld every > time. To do an installworld safely, you must be running a new kernel > because the newly installed binaries may contain code that uses new > kernel features. This won't happen every time, but it has happened in > the past and UPDATING is generally supposed to be conservative. If we > really need to support people who don't know what to do in single user > mode, the correct thing is to add instructions to do: > > fsck -p > mount -a > > after the reboot into single user mode. that makes sense to me. (in my situation i had already rebooted with the new kernel when i had to dig myself out of the hole that was single user, so the point about a true reboot being necessary didn't really occur to me.) i'm obviously new to this, so i'll leave the actual change in methodology up to the experts. i just wanted to point out the problem i had and offer a potential fix. =) -brian -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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