Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:36:53 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rebuild problems Message-ID: <20041114223652.GB23118@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041114143530.H27057@april.chuckr.org> References: <20041114143530.H27057@april.chuckr.org>
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--eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:48:17PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm trying to get myself back on the FreeBSD bus after a long while off to > the side (on a bad track named Linux). I'm taking my FreeBSD-5.1 system, > I cvsupped it, and I'm trying to get it back to current, and having some > problems. I am hitting some problems, and i don't want to have a panic > here, so I'm going to ask some questions I would have considered (2 years > ago) as being dumb ... please put up with this a little. >=20 > I finished the cvsup, rebuilt everything, and it built fine, but on > rebooting, it panics, something about reading a zero at address zero (I > can't copy this). I figured, just recompile the kernel ... so, I had to > actually install config, which meant I had to actually install libc .. > done, no problem so far. I did the config on the new config file, but > when I cd'ed to the kernel build dir and did the make depend, it came back > with a couple of unfamiliar errors: You need to follow a very strict set of procedures to update across major revisions: see /usr/src/UPDATING. It may be easier to just reinstall from binary media. Kris --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBl94EWry0BWjoQKURAh0+AJ9vdtmAwkMQKoOl6tkPYwDKjhhcgQCgjfyS gjXWM26M6iNJ4gnSeirEeNk= =2gsQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--
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