Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:34:09 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew.Li@alcatel.com.au Subject: Getting from 5.1-RELEASE to RELENG_5_1 Message-ID: <20030820213409.GE430@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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I am looking at moving various hosts from 4.x to 5.1 but have run into a problem with my test machine. I've successfully installed 5.1-RELEASE (from CD) but want to rebuild the system to customise it to its environment. The machine in question does not have enough local disk space to hold both /usr/src and /usr/obj. When I tried to NFS mount the space, the 'make buildworld' would consistently wedge the machine in "stage 1: bootstrap tools" building games/fortune/strfile. I tried using local disk for /usr/obj and NFS mounting just /usr/src. This got somewhat further but again wedged the machine. "Wedged" means no response via network or local keyboard, needing reset to recover. Has anyone else seen NFS problems with 5.1-RELEASE? The client is a P-133 with 96MB RAM. The server is a PIII running roughly 4.6. They are both using 100baseTX full-duplex 802.1Q trunks to a common switch. My alternative (preferred) option is to do a build world/kernel on another faster machine (the NFS server used above). This fails with multiple definitions of _sigaction and _sigprocmask building libpthread. Looking back thru the archives, I gather this has been fixed in -CURRENT but it's not in RELENG_5_1 because it's not security-related. Any suggestions for a way forward? Peter
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