Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:34:59 -0600 From: Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld. Message-ID: <3DBD3D03.9030507@137.org> References: <20021025192535.EF82F2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > Due to sigaction(2) syscall number changes, doing a 'make installworld' > without having booted a new kernel would be rather messy. For example, if > you tried to reboot with the old kernel, /sbin/init and /bin/sh would get a > signal and abort. That would be bad. Does this apply to ports as well? GNOME applications have started crashing a lot all of a sudden after updating my kernel (I haven't done 'installworld' yet). Do I need to rebuild all the GNOME stuff, or should I just back off to my previous kernel and wait a little while longer before doing another cvsup? -Patrick -- Patrick L. Hartling | Research Assistant, VRAC patrick@137.org | 2274 Howe Hall Room 2624 PGP: http://www.137.org/patrick/pgp.txt | T: +1.515.294.4916 http://www.137.org/patrick/ | http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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