Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:14:46 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** DO NOT UPDATE and 'make world' YOUR SPARCS Message-ID: <20040621231446.GA12360@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <97880ae0406191546208772a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20040616161217.GA57659@dragon.nuxi.com> <97880ae0406191546208772a8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:46:41PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > I've hit an issue that I suspect can render your machine useless if you > > install a new binutils. > > > > I suggest not installing a new userland world until you see the "ALL > > CLEAR". > > So, is it safe to do a new buildworld/installworld after the fixes > that were recently committed by Thomas? It was safe to do a new buildworld/installworld after I committed the patch to work around the issue on 2004-06-19. Thomas's commit did not change the state of "safeness", but allowed me to later remove the work around. > I "rushed" (*) a sparc64 > buildworld together as soon as I saw that commit, but the new kernel > panic'ed when I tried to boot into it. So, I didn't even get far > enough to install the new userland. This is not a problem I saw with the unpatched Binutils. You probably have another bug causing the panic. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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