From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 5 10: 9:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D5737B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10406; Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:09:06 -0700 Message-ID: <39B528B2.31207BE5@urx.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:09:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Dynacom Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Stop error in make world References: <39B51228.432143CE@columbus.rr.com> <14773.8453.377683.31801@hip186.ch.intel.com> <39B524F6.3D384748@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran wrote: > > John Reynolds~ wrote: > > > Well, I just cvsup'ed 1 hour ago and built world. No problems. That segfault > > you got when building perl looks really odd. Other people have said that > > segfaults during buildworld are generally hardware problems. Most likely > > memory. > > I'd be surprised ... considering I did a successful `make world' about a > month ago with no problems, and I've done many compilations (Apache, > MySQL, php, ssh) on this machine with no problems prior to this. Still, > it's a possibility, things do wear out/break/etc. > > > Any chance of you swapping out the memory in the machine? > > That's pretty much a last resort ... my goal is to fix this without > having to drive 3.5 hours to the location where it exists. If nothing > else works, I'll do that. > > > Anyway, just reporting "no errors" here with a fresh tree. > > Well, that's good news, it means I've botched something. I think the > mistake is that I accidentally got a 3.X-STABLE tree over top the 4.X > tree and the version of perl from 3.X (whatever version that is) isn't > up to doing some of the chores that are required for a 4.X make world. > My plan of attack at this point is: > make -k buildworld > make installworld > make buildworld I think if you really loaded a 3.5 tree on top, you will need to follow the cvsup upgrade path for 3.5 to 4.1 in /usr/src/UPDATING. You could also upgrade the binaries to 4.1-R and then rebuild userland and the kernel. There were such massive changes to /etc and all of the /binutils. I thought my "i" key was going to wear out running mergemaster :). Kent > > If at that point I have no errors, I'm home free to rebuild a current > kernel and make installworld again. > > If I'm still having trouble. I'm going to try cvsdowning to 4.0-STABLE > (which is what the machine was before this all started) and see if I can > get it working. > If that doesn't work and I can still get ssh access to the machine, I'll > get really desperate and try getting a 3.5.1 machine on here. > If that doesn't work, I'm driving 3.5 hours to do a clean installation > (please no) > > If anyone has any better attack plans, I'm interested to hear them. > > Thanks for all the help so far. > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message