From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 11:35:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arthur.avalon.net (arthur.avalon.net [204.71.106.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79EB37B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from avalon.net (v90-69.ic.avalon.net [205.217.148.118]) by arthur.avalon.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA26190 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:35:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A917A00.8D745624@avalon.net> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:55:31 -0600 From: Greg Nelsen Reply-To: excalibr@avalon.net Organization: Greg's Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE a little problem with upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit rather than shutdown my failed upgrade I tried to go to the GNU directory make clean make depend and rebuild (that failed on some ?blabla?77somthing lib (the 77 makes me think FORTRAN). I gave up on making in GNU and went to src made clean, buildworld and installworld and IT WORKS! something probably in -DNOFORTRAN (? -DNOGAMES???) biffed some (one) of these libs. Greg > > Last night I cvsuped the 4-stable tree and then followed the > instructions in src/UPGRADING > the cvsup went fine (i think) and building the world went fine (i > think). I say "I think" because these things take so long that I don't > watch them closely. Buildkernel went fine, and installkernel went fine > too. I dropped to single user... but the installworld command barfed an > error: It could not find GNU/?iforget?/libg2a or something like that > (I'm pretty sure of the lib and the g2a). > > I'm sort of a newbie with this, so is this system now too inconsistent > to run if it restarts, and is there any thing I can try? Yes I've got > backup and fixit disks --Oh, i used -DNOGAMES and -DNOFORTRAN too to > buildworld and installworld. > > Greg > excalibr@avalon.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message