Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:39:41 -0500 From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps: proc size mismatch Message-ID: <p06000703ba7df2b88e8c@[66.92.104.201]> In-Reply-To: <20030223030948.GA13580@gothmog.gr> References: <p06000501ba734f650c07@[66.92.104.201]> <20030223030948.GA13580@gothmog.gr>
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At 5:09 AM +0200 2003/02/23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2003-02-22 21:24, Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> wrote: >> Commands I ran to update (in December successfully, and twice >> unsuccessfully this month): >> >> # more Makefile UPDATING >> # mergemaster -p ; make buildworld > ~/buildworld-20030221.log ; make >> buildkernel > ~/buildkernel-20030221.log # mergemaster found no >> changes >> # mergemaster -p # no changes found >> # make installkernel > >The proc size mismatch you're seeing is because your kernel and >userland is not in sync. > >Reboot. Enter single user mode. Run 'installworld'. > >If you suspect 'installworld' can fail in the middle of it all, and >leave you with a useless installation, half-updated and half-not, then >make sure you have about 300 MB of free space in /somewhere and run: > > # cd /usr/src > # make DESTDIR=/somewhere installworld > >if this works fine, then youcan safely delete everything in /somewhere >and run the real 'installworld' without DESTDIR. So (aside from verifying sufficient free space), the only test to do after installkernel and before installworld is to make sure that the system can boot single-user? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>; Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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