From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 14: 0:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maileast2.usps.gov (maileast2.usps.gov [56.0.96.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B9637B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fwtk@localhost) by maileast2.usps.gov (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f0JLxlZ20127 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:59:48 GMT Received: from samtcavds01.usps.gov(unknown 56.14.0.170) by maileast2 via smap (V2.1) id xma020046; Fri, 19 Jan 01 21:58:43 GMT Received: by samtcavds01.usps.gov; id VAA03173; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:56:54 GMT Received: from nodnsquery(56.88.9.237) by samtcavds01.usps.gov via smap (V4.0) id xma003113; Fri, 19 Jan 01 21:55:59 GMT Received: by EMAIL.USPS.GOV (Soft-Switch LMS 3.2.1) with snapi via SSWHUB id 0033000013990562; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:51:42 -0600 From: ANUBHAV AGARWAL To: freebsd-questions Subject: help 3-stable -> 4-stable: shutdown -r now fails w/ sig 12 Message-ID: <0033000013990562000002L022*@MHS> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:51:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =0Ahi, i am trying to upgrade from 3-stable (last world installed some time during last 2 weeks) to 4-stable (cvsup'd the sources this week). for 4-stable, after successfully building world and building & installing kernel (first GENERIC, then FOO) i tried to reboot. couldn't as it dumped core w/ signal 12 (invalid system call). in between of after installing kernel & before rebooting, i did... # cd /usr/src/sbin && make install # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV all # sh MAKEDEV ad0 ...then checked for disk slices in the current /etc/fstab, and then made the missing ones, like ad0s2[af]. then, replaced alll "wd0" w/ "ad0" in /etc/fstab. however, after rebooting failed w/ signal 12 & core dump, i changed restored the "wd0" entries. i think the reason is, i did... # cd /usr/src/sbin && make install ...instead of... # cd /usr/src/sbin/mknod && make install ...so the solution i was thinking of... 1a mv /usr/src /usr/src-4 1b mv /usr/obj /usr/obj-4 # to save an hour of buildworld compilation 1c mkdir /usr/src 2a (cvsup the 3-stable sources needed to install /sbin) q: what are the needed cvs-tags/sources to install "sbin" for 3-stable? if possible i would rather not get the whole tree. 2b cd /usr/src/sbin && make install 2c mv /usr/src /usr/src-3 2d mv /usr/obj /usr/obj-3 3a mv /usr/src-4 /usr/src 3b mv /usr/obj-4 /usr/obj 3c cd /usr/src 4a (reinstall kernel again, not build) 4b (run MAKEDEV again) 4c (change /etc/fstab "wd0" entries to "ad0") q: UPDATING doesn't list step 4c; is it harmful/unneeded? 5 shutdonw -r now # reboot in single user mode, hopefully w/o dump 6 (run/follow rest of the UPDATING intructions /more/ carefully) ...so is that ok? any suggestions? - anu= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message