Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:37:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha is seriously broken Message-ID: <p06110403bd4bbacb7bee@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040820135844.GA76070@ip.net.ua> References: <20040820101817.GE27931@ip.net.ua> <1092999187.9863.2.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040820105915.GA29178@ip.net.ua> <1093000460.9863.4.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040820120757.GC29568@ip.net.ua> <xzpn00qeycb.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040820135844.GA76070@ip.net.ua>
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At 4:58 PM +0300 8/20/04, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >On Fri, Aug 20, 2004, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes: >> > I think there's no emergency plan other than to reinstall "base" >> > on these systems from some older snapshot? >> > > cross-compile on a different machine in the cluster, copy over > > the new make(1), then use it to installworld over NFS. > >Only if this machine is also Alpha. To tell you the truth, some bits >produced by cross-compiles on different architectures are not ready >for use on a native architecture. This includes binary files such as >fortune(6) .dat files, NLS catalogs, etc. I haven't identified them >all yet. If this machine has been getting rebuilt frequently, then maybe you can just boot up kernel.old and have a working machine. If that does not work, and would a cross-compile work well-enough to generate a new library (if the problem is a library), or a new kernel (if the error is in the kernel). Or maybe just generate dynamically- linked versions of make & cc. Even if cross-builds are not good enough to do a complete buildworld, might they work well enough to recover from this with less work than a complete reinstall? On my sparc64 system, I have two sets of partitions, and every month or so I dump/restore to duplicate my working partitions to the second set (and change fstab automatically, so the second set boots right!). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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