Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:11:33 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src upgrade 4.0-RELEASE to 4-STABLE fails on make installworld... Message-ID: <20020220191133.GA61611@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3C73EC1B.9080100@magpage.com> References: <3C73D7C2.3000502@magpage.com> <20020220181526.GB49599@sunbay.com> <3C73EC1B.9080100@magpage.com>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:34:03PM -0500, Daniel Frazier wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > >We don't support upgrading from 4.0 to earlier than yesterday's 4.5-STABLE. > > > I was upgrading to yesterday's 4-STABLE. The second time I cvsup'd was > around 1500 GMT and I used RELENG_4 in my supfile. Sorry, thought I had > made that clear... > > > >We can't fix bugs in already released software like RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE. > >You should cvsup to RELENG_4. Don't forget to install the new kernel > >before running installworld if DESTDIR=/. > > > did that too. Here's the steps I took: > > 1. A while back I installed 4.0-RELEASE and sorta forgot about the box for > a while. > 2. yesterday I cvsup'd using RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE > 3. started a make buildworld > 3. read the post "4.0-RELEASE -> 4.5-STABLE now possible..." > 4. killed the make buildworld > 5. cvsup'd using RELENG_4 > 6. make buildworld > 7. make buildkernel KERNCONF=whatever > 8. make installworld KERNCONF=whatever Hope you actually did ``make installkernel''. Have you rebooted with the new kernel after this point? > 9. make installworld > 10. gasped in horror as the make installworld died. > > Also, while attempting to recover from this I noticed that almost everything > in /bin had lost it's ABI type and had to be re-brandelf'd. Dunno what was > up with that... > > Regardless, I've decided to just nuke /usr/obj and /usr/src and have another > go at it. Hopefully my userland isn't too hosed to get thru it this time. > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:07:14PM -0500, Daniel Frazier wrote: > > > >>Greetz all, > >> > >>I finally decided to bring this old box I had sitting around up to > >>STABLE and everything went fine up to the make buildworld step. I > >>had just cvsup'd to RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE but and made world with those > >>sources but then I saw the post titled "4.0-RELEASE -> 4.5-STABLE now > >>possible..." and thought what the heck, I'll give that a shot... So I > >>cvsup'd again and got up to the make installworld stage when I recieved > >>the following error: > >> > >>===> bin/test > >>install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 test /bin > >>ELF binary type not known. Use "brandelf" to brand it. > >>*** Signal 6 > >> > >>Stop in /usr/src/bin/test. > >>*** Error code 1 > >> > >>Anyone know how what happened here? I'm thinking I'll re-cvsup and > >>try again, but the make buildworld took about 6 hours so I'd rather > >>not go thru that again if it's something that can be fixed another > >>way. > >> > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 > Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 > MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. > -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and 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-stable" in the body of the message
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