From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 13 3:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pccigv6.nottingham.ac.uk (pccigv6.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.220.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0A837B407 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cczjm@localhost) by pccigv6.nottingham.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8DAWME03787 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:32:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jose.marques@nottingham.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:32:22 +0100 (BST) From: Jose Marques X-X-Sender: To: Subject: MAKEDEV problem in recent stable Message-ID: <20010913112903.B406-100000@pccigv6.nottingham.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I don't have access to my freebsd-stable mailbox so I don't know if this has already been posted. When running mergemaster after rebuilding FreeBSD I received the following error: *** You installed a new /dev/MAKEDEV script, so make sure that you run 'cd /dev && /bin/sh MAKEDEV all' to rebuild your devices Would you like to run it now? y or n [n] y Running cd /dev && /bin/sh MAKEDEV all MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: As a quick fix you can prevent this error by commenting out the following line from MAKEDEV sh MAKEDEV zs0 # big-Alpha serial tty The "MAKEDEV all" command then works without the error. -- Jose Marques To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message