From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 4 00:11:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13321 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13316 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA20741; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:06:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199809040706.JAA20741@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: upgrading In-Reply-To: <199809040449.OAA04701@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Sep 4, 98 02:49:45 pm" To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:06:23 +0200 (CEST) Cc: nellie@home.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to John Birrell: > dmb wrote: > > I cvsupped to get the current source, rm'd /usr/obj, ran make world, went > > smoothly... rebuilt a new kernel after make world finished, tried to > > reboot and got an error of bad system call, then it sig12'd... any ideas? > > You must be upgrading from a 2.2.X system. That's a normal (an unfortunate) > problem upgrading from 2.2.X to current. The aout->elf upgrade handles > this by saving the reboot program before installing the new one. You might > as well just sync the disk and cycle the power. This has worked for me > on the 6 or so occasions I forgot about reboot. Er... why not just get a clean shutdown with CTRL-ALT-DELETE at the console? /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message