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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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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

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