Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:49:19 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kldxref broken, maybe? Message-ID: <20011010144919.N387@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101003b7ea3d9b3de9@[207.76.207.129]>; from mark@whistle.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:09:30AM -0700 References: <20011010103904.B88413@sunbay.com> <20011010182409.B31727-100000@delplex.bde.org> <20011010172046.F33404@sunbay.com> <200110101629.f9AGThT55592@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <p05101003b7ea3d9b3de9@[207.76.207.129]>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:09:30AM -0700, Mark Peek wrote:
> At 9:29 AM -0700 10/10/01, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >OK, sounds good. Seems to me this is something that might deserve a
> >mention in UPDATING. Something like:
> >
> > During a source upgrade of a 4-STABLE machine to -CURRENT, the
> > installkernel step will attempt to execute a non-existent kldxref
> > executable. (kldxref exists in -CURRENT, but not in 4-STABLE.)
> > This error is non-fatal and can be ignored.
>
> That looks good. Thanks for writing it up. I'm not sure how precise you want
> to be but here's a slight change to include -CURRENT upgrades.
>
> During a source upgrade of a 4-STABLE (or -CURRENT prior to 20010910)
> machine to -CURRENT, the installkernel step will attempt to execute a
> non-existent kldxref executable. (kldxref exists in -CURRENT as of
> 20010910, but not in 4-STABLE.) This error is non-fatal and can be
> ignored.
I think just running 'installworld' twice will "fix" it. The error is
non-fatal, but not without implications. The only one that I am aware
of is that your system might have some trouble doing kldload(8) unless
it is given the full path of the module.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
cjclark@jhu.edu
cjc@freebsd.org
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