From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 21:23:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F1816A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:23:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C531843D3F for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:23:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j28LMZt3024127; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:22:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:23:30 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1110313889.8450.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1110313889.8450.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503081323.30914.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Bnonn Subject: Re: Make buildworld and reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:23:34 -0000 On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:31 pm, Bnonn wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I recently let a make buildworld run overnight following updating > source, and came back in the morning to find that the process had > completed successfully, but that my keyboard had gone completely > dead. I don't know why this happened, but it might have something to > do with having a USB keyboard. Anyway, I couldn't run make > installworld following this since the keyboard was no-go, so I was > forced to hard-reboot. If that is happening, then I would suspect you have hardware problems. The reasoning is that buildworld does not change your local environment and couldn't cause a hang. Everything that it builds goes into /usr/obj. Now, Murphy likes to embarass me but that is my current $0.02 :). Kent > > Not knowing a great deal about what make buildworld really does, I'm > not sure if the changes it effects are persistent through a reboot. > Do I need to run make buildworld again before running make > installworld? I've skimmed the manpages on make, but they seem > directed to the sort of people who want to create makefiles, rather > than just run them, and I thought I could probably get the quick and > dirty answer here without having to resort to three days of study :) > > Your help is appreciated > > Bnonn > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html