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From: Paul Allenby <pallenby@mamba.cids.org.za>
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Subject: Re: sh can't be exec'd
To: drwilco@drwilco.nl (Rogier R. Mulhuijzen)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:15:46 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010128161923.00c74440@mail.bsdchicks.com> from "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" at Jan 28, 2001 04:22:09 PM
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"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:"
> 
> 
> >For the last week, each kernel built with fresh source code
> >cannot exec sh. I've seen a lot of emails about this, but
> >most were about the "correct" way to rebuild a system.
> >Is this a problem affecting only me?
> 
> I haven't had any trouble.
> 
> How do you rebuild your system? What is the exact error you get?
> And (at the risk of sounding stupid) what's the output of ls -l /bin/sh?
> 

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf;config XXX;cd ../../compile/XXX; make depend; make

No errors, just the usual prompt for a path to a shell, as if one
had booted single user.

526188 sh, without resorting to a fixit disc.

Thanks for your reply!

Paul


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