Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:55:58 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: philip@ridecharge.com, FreeBSD-Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Uname borked on ??-Release... Message-ID: <47CC81FE.6050206@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <47CC782D.3090005@FreeBSD.org> References: <47CC36C9.7020402@daleco.biz> <47CC5E2A.8090800@FreeBSD.org> <47CC72C8.5070905@daleco.biz> <47CC782D.3090005@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >> <snip> >> >>>> I get the following from uname -a: >>>> >>>> FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6: >>>> Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 root@archangel.daleco.biz: >>>> /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >>>> >>>> However, I rebuilt world, more or less without issues, >>>> twice in February with "RELENG_6" in the supfile. This >>>> didn't change uname's output, and that worried me a bit. >>>> >>>> So, to make matters bette^H^H^H^Hadder, I csup'ped >>>> to RELENG_7_0 the day after it was released, read >>>> /usr/src/UPDATING, and the webpage detailing the >>>> upgrade, and did another buildworld/kernel cycle. >>>> Now I have no idea if I'm on 6 or 7 (seems like >>>> 7, but many ports issues, and I've rebuilt them >>>> all), and it's just becoming a major PITA. >>> >>> You didnt succeed in installing the new kernel. 'make installkernel' >>> is the step in which this occurs. >>> >> Thank you and Phillip for answering my post. However, >> I've done this 3 times now, and I don't skip that step. >> There have been no errors in the process, either. >> >> I've rebooted the system, and I'm still being told I'm running >> 6.2 by uname. In addition, pkg_add thinks I should be looking >> for 6-latest packages instead of 7, and the list of annoyances >> continues. And, "hmm", symbols? I'm guessing that knob is ON >> in FBSD7? Once again, proof that something's wrong, as I didn't >> build debugging kernels in FBSD6 ... so I'm thinking this is >> a 7 kernel? It just doesn't make sense to me. >> >> It *is* a Monday, after all. If installkernel didn't succeed, >> shouldn't there be any other evidence? Could skipping >> a mergemaster at some point have this effect? > > Possibly you have 6.x sources still. Or you are not actually booting > /boot/kernel/kernel but some other kernel. Check sysctl kern.bootfile. > You can also do > > strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep 7.0-RELEASE > > to verify the kernel version string. #sysctl kern.bootfile kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel/kernel #strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep 0-RELEASE @(#)FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 12:22:38 CST 2008 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 12:22:38 CST 2008 7.0-RELEASE #ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9294687 Feb 28 12:22 /boot/kernel/kernel* Well, fudging around with uname's source shows that it's basically calling some sysctls, so maybe the question is, with what I have above, why do I still have: sysctl -a | grep kern.osre kern.osrelease: 6.2-RELEASE kern.osrevision: 199506 kern.osreldate: 602000 ?? Thanks in advance, Kevin Kinsey
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