From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 14:31:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9FA106564A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF3E8FC13 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.52]) by qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uC201d00517dt5G57EXXnk; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:31 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uEXW1d00T3S48mS3ZEXXae; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:31 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C4359B436; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:31:29 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Cristiano Deana Message-ID: <20100317143129.GA18123@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:31 -0000 On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote: > Hi, > > anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? > > make update > make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld I'm not familiar with upgrading a working 7.x to 8.x box, so I can't tell you for certain if that's what caused your problem. But the above make commands *are not* the proper procedure to follow. /usr/src/Makefile contains the procedure: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # [steps 3. & 4. can be combined by using the "kernel" target] # 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). # 6. `mergemaster -p' # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `make delete-old' # 9. `mergemaster' (you may wish to use -U or -ai). # 10. `reboot' # 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) Chances are the failure you were seeing is/was induced by you doing things in the wrong order. If your system doesn't have remote serial console (for the single user steps), then you get to do it from the VGA console. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |