From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 11:33:37 2004 Return-Path: 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 D127E16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:33:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from radicalv.com (secure.radicalv.com [216.118.91.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6235843D2D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: (qmail 30311 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2004 19:33:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Nomad) (63.228.14.245) by mail.radicalv.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2004 19:33:36 -0000 From: "Eric F Crist" To: "'Chuck Swiger'" Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:03:16 -0600 Message-ID: <004501c3f71b$08648950$6401a8c0@Nomad> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <4034407B.5010608@mac.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: 'FreeBSD questions List' Subject: RE: make buildworld fails and a reboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:33:37 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswiger@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:50 PM To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com Cc: FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: make buildworld fails and a reboot? Eric F Crist wrote: > Hey all. I figured out why my system doesn't seem to be working. For > some > reason, make world failed and the system rebooted. Now, I can't cvsup any > new sources. How do I recover from this? "make world" doesn't always result in a working system, which is why the procedure in UPDATING has many more steps (but which should be safe[r]). You haven't provided an error message as to what happens when you try to cvsup; what happens when you try? For that matter, you haven't told us which version of FreeBSD you are running and what branch of the sources you were building world with... > Please tell me I don't have to reinstall from scratch. Oh, it's absolutely certain that you could recover in other ways, but it also might be the case that doing a clean reinstall is faster than any of these alternatives. -- -Chuck Chuck, sorry about the lack of information. Here's the dilly-oh. I've got a FreeBSD 5.2 system. I've figured out that cvsup doesn't work because nslookup doesn't exist on the system. I figure I could just copy the binary from my 4.9 system and try from there. I use the RELENG_5_2 tag for CVSUP. I'm thinking this is wrong. Bah. In the mean time, I'm going to try copying the nslookup exec from my 4.9 laptop and see if I can't get cvsup to work like that. Dig works just fine, which is why I think this method could work. If all else fails, I'll just start a rebuild tonight. Thanks, Eric F Crist