From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 20:16:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8025816A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orngca-mls03.socal.rr.com (mls03.hawaii.rr.com [66.75.160.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D806243FA3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gwschenk@socal.rr.com) Received: from fuzz.socal.rr.com (cpe-66-74-149-98.socal.rr.com [66.74.149.98])h9K3G4U02904; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:16:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Schenk To: lrenfrow , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:16:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20030925183347.GA778@merlin.bsdhound.com> In-Reply-To: <20030925183347.GA778@merlin.bsdhound.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310192016.03567.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Subject: Re: Kernel Name Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:16:07 -0000 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. >