From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 01:15:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A4810656D1 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0304.google.com (rv-out-0304.google.com [209.85.198.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE318FC1A for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:15:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0304.google.com with SMTP id c6so918263rvf.31 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:15:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.77.1 with SMTP id z1mr560957waa.23.1235351716522; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:15:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00163645923c3c708804638bbc7c@google.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:15:16 +0000 From: af300wsm@gmail.com To: Free BSD Questions list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:15:17 -0000 Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory A little history for what's going on; the server was not responding at all so I took it home to diagnose (it was at a friends house, where it's hosted). I turned it on and it booted up ok for me, which was a little odd because he told me that it wasn't doing "anything." So, I began looking the system over. Within 10 minutes the system became slow and was rather unresponsive to things. For example, saves while running vim took 20 seconds or so. Within a few minutes the kernel panicked and I had to reboot. Before the panic I noticed that there were some background file system checks going. So, since it was rebooting anyway I went into single user mode and performed fsck on all of the partitions (except the root, that was marked as clean). There were many problems fixed especially on the /usr partition. I'm betting that this missing file, gtype-desc.h, happens to have been one of the many problems fixed. At any rate, after running the file system checks I rebooted normally and everything appears to be fine. I then updated the system and kernel source code and that's when I found this problem. The kernel built ok and I've had the system running for up to 2 hours since fixing the file systems without incident. It's apparently corrupted file systems rather than hardware. Never the less, I will be turning up what smartd is monitoring because I do have it running and received no e-mail about hard drive problems. So, basically, the question for everyone here is, what's the simplest way to get a fresh source code tree so that I can build the world applications? Thanks, Andy