Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:32:31 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: f-questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World Message-ID: <F2AAD8B1-6859-11D9-8611-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117071900.GA92079@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <CC0E9838-684B-11D9-8611-000393681B06@lafn.org> <20050117060510.GA63358@xor.obsecurity.org> <8DC9B67A-6857-11D9-8611-000393681B06@lafn.org> <20050117071900.GA92079@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Jan 16, 2005, at 23:19, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:15:23PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: >> >> On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: >>>> The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight >>>> forward >>>> and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations >>>> now. I have been through all the UPDATING notes and the handbook >>>> and >>>> something is obviously not clear. >>>> >>>> The approach I used is: >>>> >>>> Clean install from 5.3 distribution. >>>> make buildworld >>>> create new config file LAFN >>>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=LAFN >>>> make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN >>>> reboot >>>> make installworld >>>> reboot >>>> >>>> At that point It appeared I was using the LAFN kernel rather than >>>> generic. >>>> >>>> However, tonight I tried to make a new kernel. NO go: >>>> ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! >>>> config version = 500012, version required = 500013 >>>> >>>> So I tried to reinstall the kernel: >>>> make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN >>>> install -o root -g wheel -m 555 acpi.ko /boot/kernel >>>> install: acpi.ko: No such file or directory >>>> >>>> How are you supposed to build a new kernel that works? How do I >>>> recover this? >>> >>> The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree >>> was >>> inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your >>> sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel depends on the >>> newer version of config than the one you have built (in this case the >>> 'safe' buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel method you used to begin >>> with should still work). >>> >>> Kris >> >> Well, I tried makeworld again. Dies in Step 3. Reloaded all source >> from the distribution >> CD. makeworld dies in exactly the same place: > > Really, this all points to something else having changed on your > system in the meantime. Try > > cd /usr/src > make cleandir > make cleandir > make buildworld > > Kris Wish I had seen that earlier. I just tried a cvs from RELENG_5_3. I thought that would only have security fixes. Its downloading a ton of stuff. Obviously I can't stop it. Seems like just about all the userland source files are being changed. Lots of deletes too. I'll give the above a try when this finishes. Why so many files from cvs?
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