From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 11:18:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2522037B401 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E584843E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7TIJ5FK084927; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:19:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7TIJ5Tf084926; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:19:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:19:05 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6.2 installworld fail Message-ID: <20020829181905.GA84885@ei.bzerk.org> References: <3D6E36B1.8080305@401.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D6E36B1.8080305@401.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:58:57PM +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg typed: > Hi list. > > During the last 10 days or so, I have been unable to update any > of my machines using the cvsup and make buildworld procedure. > The machines are PII, dual Celeron, dual PIII and a few AMD's, > all high quality machines with plenty of ram, and they all fail. > > Some output from my last attempt. > Make buildworld is succesfull, but only a few seconds into make > installworld I get this: > > ===> bin/rmail > install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rmail /bin > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 rmail.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 > ===> games > ===> games/adventure > install -c -s -o root -g games -m 550 adventure /usr/games/hide > (cd /usr/games; ln -fs dm adventure; chown -h root:wheel adventure) > chown: wheel: illegal group name > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/games/adventure. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/games. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > > Message from syslogd@rocky at Thu Aug 29 16:45:00 2002 ... > rocky Aug 29 16:45:00atrun[: cannot read /var/at/jobs/ > > Here it complains about the wheel group, but naturally the wheel > group exists, so what the error message says cant really be whats > causing it to fail. As you can see, it immediatly afterwards > starts to report some weird errors, such as cant read > /var/at/jobs, followed by malloc failures and similar. > The only way to recover the machine from this state is to restore > from backups, rebooting the machine or trying to continue using > it will leave you with a severely crippled system. Most processes > fail with segfault or memory allocation errors. > Ive tried cvsup with tag=RELENG_4, tag=RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE and > tag=RELENG_4_6_1_RELEASE. Ive tried different cvsup servers and I > have done make clean, and even deleted /usr/src and /usr/obj. > Same result in all cases. > > uname -a: > FreeBSD rocky. 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Mon Aug > 19 21:05:16 GMT 2002 > root@rocky.:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROCKY i386 > > Is the source tree broken right now, or am I doing something wrong? I have been doing nightly build - install cycles for weeks on a testmachine, so I don't think the source tree is broken. Look for something all your machines have in common. What cvsupfile are you using? What do you have in /etc/make.conf? That sort of things. > > -- > R > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message