From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 18 01:12:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EF21065676 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f204.google.com (mail-qy0-f204.google.com [209.85.221.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890798FC33 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so966706qyk.3 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:12:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=L8sqN0qL0/kU5VQATf3JIHtMPYbIt7coQYQYfJnyUco=; b=Sg2m5dtHAI4xs7EOci1zaVJpGF/lo9envFuFAb089APT5r4HDKrCem4YZdDeu06rmx 4fa1pzzLW4C4YTUvXcv4LKcgyKQ3tbZW4VrsY49OOTgnGY7Cq7R1dUif+m0UOnB/4K+c BQ1Hhz9aRU2Q8i0ppwcA5mp0wenjU2mD7zMK8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KQSUm8PCYlneEcIDORREfCJB7S2g+cpSGn7pMmjWojXNho7sVVgaOvTIlKmolcxY63 tuNz8Q9z7Qii0R9JyEpJf+ktqWSywiWaVGAvfyO08/0b3mmUxN0peH9Y1GCBnM4rzuOX myFF+MNrd8JlodeI1zbBklfkU/atfudYlh98w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.81.70 with SMTP id w6mr324409qck.11.1247878195076; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:49:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:49:55 +0800 Message-ID: From: Daniel Marsh To: Eitan Adler , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: badly munged system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:12:21 -0000 Eltan, The actual problem is the fact you installed the kernel, booted the new kernel and are using the "old" world. You can boot the old kernel and do a make installworld and it will work. The world and the kernel will have problems, especially if there are major version differences between the new and old builds! Keep the kernel the same version of the world by installing world and kernel at the same time. Regards Daniel On 7/18/09, Eitan Adler wrote: > I tried to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, > reboot, make installworld from an old version of 7.2-STABLE to revision > 195666. I was in single user mode the entire time. > The first three steps worked perfectly. The final step resulted in an > error which I forgot to log. I then proceeded to do a make clean and try > to rebuild the world. > This results in the following error: > cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -I/usr/obj/home/src/stable7/tmp/legacy/usr/in > > clude -c /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c > /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c:146: warning: 'struct > dirent' > > declared inside parameter list > .... > /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c:929: error: > dereferencing poin > > ter to incomplete type > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis. > *** Error code 1 > ... > > Along with this error I am now missing quite a number of system files: > among them include /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: sort: Shared object has no run-time symbol table > and man. > > How could I get out of this state without losing data? > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Sent from my mobile device http://buymeahouse.stiw.org/