From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 13:10:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFEE37B417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:10:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDLCAF94566; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:12:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:12:10 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re: keeping a system in use during a complete rebuild? In-Reply-To: <200112131930.fBDJUNO15648@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Message-ID: <20011213150416.K94416-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 dochawk@psu.edu wrote to Ryan Thompson: > world doesn't worry me much, save that I'm no longer convinced > that it is occuring properly. Among other things, des_cript ends > up missing, and the system tells me at times that I"m not a > US_RESIDENT--though this is setin /etc/make.conf > > I'm also getting weird sound results, apparent attempts to load > the linux module after it's already loaded, and a couple of other > weird events. Hmm... Who knows... Something obviously got corrupted. I'd probably clean out /usr/src and /usr/obj, run fsck -p (unmount the filesystems first :-b), restore the GENERIC kernel, re-cvsup the sources, rebuild, and install. (In that order). Or, to be absolutely sure, you might still consider remaking the filesystems and reinstalling from fresh media. Hardware problems can wreak all sorts of lingering havoc on things. > > You can upgrade most all ports on a running system without any > > worries. Check out the portupgrade port|package to make life easy. > > That's where this mess started :) Portupgrade no longer works, > and /usr/ports/INSTALL.db and .rbs are gone and won't come back. > > whoa, hold on. A little dinkin here, and a little there, and > suddenly, after days of fighting, portsdb -uU is actually doing > something! I may be home free! Yeehah! > > hawk, who now sees that sacrificing the bunny *did* pay off . . . :-) If you're not home free yet, you can always just rm -Rf /usr/ports and re-fetch the ports dist (ports.tar.gz), to start out clean. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message