From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 5:35: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FA537B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 05:35:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu (gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu [129.186.232.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5835A43E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 05:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@137.org) Received: from 137.org (plan114-105.icsincorporated.com [65.171.114.105]) by gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14941E; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:35:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DBD3D03.9030507@137.org> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:34:59 -0600 From: Patrick Hartling User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld. References: <20021025192535.EF82F2A88D@canning.wemm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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