From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 22:38:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E0E37B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B670143E09 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5S5cruJ024428; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:38:53 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g5S5cr2Y024427; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:38:53 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:38:53 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Blake Swensen Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Upgrade again... Message-ID: <20020628053852.GA24354@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3D1B9E0F.8090805@pyramus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D1B9E0F.8090805@pyramus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:21:51PM -0700, Blake Swensen wrote: > OK... I have followed the directions in the handbook, and read the > entire chapter on upgrading in 'FreeBSD Unleashed'. > > I have been running FreeBSD from version 1.0 and have upgraded machines > successfully from one branch to another... I have never run into this > issue before. > > The machine in question is running 3.5-RELEASE on an AMD 800mhz with > 256MB RAM, Adaptec 2940, and 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX. It has an uptime > of over 120 days. > > I have CVSed and CVSUPed RELENG_4, RELENG_4_5 and RELEG_4_5_RELEASE. I > have double-checked /etc/make.conf and have cleaned /usr/obj. Despite > all of this I still get the same error during make build (as detailed > below). Personally, I've always encountered some show-stopper when jumping a major version. What I usually do when upgrading a major release is to install a minimal binary version of the new major version, and then cvsup to -stable, then try to merge the old /etc to the new /etc. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message