From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 13:28:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4C416A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:28:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144C243D1F for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:28:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3342469A21; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:28:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:28:39 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Jim Campbell Message-Id: <20050419092839.74841c59.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> References: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:28:42 -0000 Jim Campbell wrote: > I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD > for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 > because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, > Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble. > > This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD > Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it > advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The > Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through > the following steps with no problem: > > # make buildworld > # make installworld > # mergemaster > # reboot This is not correct, and this is not what 19.4.1 says. The correct procedure is as Mike Schultz described. Please review that section of the handbook. If you did, indeed, do as you described, then you have a world that's out of sync with your kernel. Try this: 1) Boot in to single user mode 2) fsck 3) mount -a 4) cd /usr/src 5) make buildkernel 6) make installkernel 7) reboot If you're unable to complete those steps, then you may be better off reinstalling and trying again - write it off as part of the learning process. There are ways to restore your system if you've made this mistake and the above doesn't work, but it's rather advanced stuff. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com