From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 21 8:44:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B7937B402; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from magpage.com (dfrazier@poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1LGiC427495; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:44:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C7523DC.3060106@magpage.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:44:12 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020110 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans , Marcel Moolenaar , Peter Wemm Subject: Re: src upgrade 4.0-RELEASE to 4-STABLE fails on make installworld... References: <3C73D7C2.3000502@magpage.com> <20020220181526.GB49599@sunbay.com> <3C73EC1B.9080100@magpage.com> <20020221090710.GB13262@sunbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RRT-Status: UNKNOWN Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:34:03PM -0500, Daniel Frazier wrote: > [...] > >>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... >> >>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 installkernel KERNCONF=whatever >>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. >> >> > I can confirm that to be a real problem after actually having tried to > installworld with an empty DESTDIR. > > The problem is that many installation tools that we copy and run during > installworld have /bin/sh hardcoded in them (e.g. make(1)), and after > the new /bin/sh is installed, make(1) attempted to run the new /bin/sh, > as opposed to /tmp/install.XXXX/sh available through a PATH. > > The workaround was to temporarily remove "sh" from the SUBDIR list in > bin/Makefile, for installworld stage. > > Another (late) problem was with host's makewhatis(1) which puts > /bin:/usr/bin before the supplied ${PATH}. Commenting out this > line in /usr/bin/makewhatis before installworld did the trick. > > These are workarounds. The correct solution would be to make > sure that none of the tools from the PATH that we use during > installworld run non-PATH utils (from /bin, /usr/bin, etc.), > like Peter did for install(1) in xinstall.c,v 1.9. > > sweet! I'm make installing the kernel again right now, I'll try your workarounds as soon as it's ready to make installworld. At least this was confirmed as a problem rather than operator error. Makes me feel better, at least... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message