From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 14 07:04:04 2003 Return-Path: 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 C4F6F16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:04:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3760243F93 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (dhcp-171-146.centtech.com [10.177.171.146]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hAEF3p6T070555; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:03:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FB4EED3.2020305@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:03:47 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn References: <20031113064835.qccgccsoowkw0o00@mail.encontacto.net> <20031113145037.GR60410@submonkey.net> <20031113065514.kkcg0ckwsw88okcw@mail.encontacto.net> <20031113073915.yy8s4ooggssk4kw0@mail.encontacto.net> <20031113171120.GC73775@FreeBSD.org> <20031113114105.ee04c4s0kgs8kcc0@mail.encontacto.net> <3FB3E33C.9040800@centtech.com> <20031114093118.GH884@starjuice.net> In-Reply-To: <20031114093118.GH884@starjuice.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unattended reboot was Re: signal 12's everywhere on Currentwith update this morning. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:04:04 -0000 Sheldon Hearn wrote: >On (2003/11/13 14:02), Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >>I'm not having any luck - I'm started to feel like I'm missing something >>here :) >> >>I cvsup'd yesterday afternoon, and did my usual make buildworld, kernel, >>install kernel, single user mode, then make installworld - except it >>bombed on the installworld. I ignored the message moved on. >> >> > >You missed a step. The HEADS UP sent to -current said you needed to >reboot between kernel install and world install. > >This is the strictly safe way of upgrading always. However, many people >skip the reboot (and even the drop to single-user mode) as a shortcut. >Sometimes, the shortcut works. This time, it doesn't. :-) > Unfortunately, I had unsubscribed myself from the list a few weeks ago when I went to a Usenix conference, and forgot to resubscribe! Woops. All fixed up now though. At least now I know what I did wrong - thanks! Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------