Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:16:03 -0700 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: lrenfrow <lrenfrow@arcomnet.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Name Issues Message-ID: <200310192016.03567.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030925183347.GA778@merlin.bsdhound.com> References: <20030925183347.GA778@merlin.bsdhound.com>
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On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:33 am, lrenfrow wrote: > Greetings FreeBSD Gods, Hi. Sorry, but the FreeBSD Gods reside on the freebsd-questions list. If you send this along to that list, you'll find lots of folks willing to help. I just did my first system upgrade and it when very smooth. I went from 4.7-RELEASE to 4.9-PRERELEASE. I also used portupgrade to install the latest software upgrades. After 2 days of compiling on my PIII 600 mhz, everything worked fine. Just lucky I guess. Good luck. Gary > > I've read though much documentation and I seem to be having some > issues with a problem. With all the latest security advisories going > twords FreeBSD lately I wanted to ensure I was on the correct release > so I ran a uname -a and was presented with an output of: > > FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep 2 22:25:29 EDT 2003 > > Now this raises some concern for me. > > I had cvsup'ed the latest sources this morning and UPDATING says p8 > I've performed the build operations stated in the handbook and in > /usr/src/UPDATING which are: > > remove /usr/obj/ > Make buildworld > Make buildkernel > Make installkernel > Make installworld > Mergemaster stuff > > All these operations complete successfully with no error. > > My cvs-supfile is: > > *default host=cvsup11.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_1 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-all > > I've tried cvsuping the latest GENERIC kernel and building and > installing that with no success.. > > Sysctl gives this about the release. > > kern.ostype: FreeBSD > kern.version: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep 2 22:25:29 EDT 2003 > > the /boot/kernel directories all have the correct date stamp > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6144 Sep 25 12:22 kernel > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6144 Sep 25 10:08 kernel.old > > So why is this not updating.. It's still on a old kernel. > > I've tried both methods of building a kernel > > Cd /usr/src ; make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME > Make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME > > And the cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ ; config NAME && cd > ../compile/NAME ; make depend && make && make install > > Still no success.. There's nothing in the sysctl or rc.conf that > would restrict this from happening and I had set the fstab file w/ no > restrictions. I've don't this a million times and have never had this > problem. > > It appears though it really is on p8 but is not updating the uname > display.. But i'm no programmer and i'm unsure how that portion of > the OS gets changed.. Any help would be greatly appriciated. >
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