Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:59:20 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>, bmah@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: <20011011095920.B44141@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20011010144919.N387@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:49:19PM -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]> <20011010144919.N387@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:49:19PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. > Not if you install -CURRENT on a -STABLE box with DESTDIR=/CURRENT. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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