From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 24 11:40:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983C937B40C for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 15aLs9-0000r7-00 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:40:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:40:01 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel makefiles broken?? Message-ID: <20010824144001.E304@pir.net> Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15238.39852.905127.192170@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jeff@delnoch.net on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:36:51PM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. 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 Jeff Ito probably said: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Robert Huff wrote: > > I checked /, and /modules is a file, not a directory. > what sort of file is /modules? it should be a directory > > # ls -al / > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3584 Aug 24 01:01 modules > > > I would rm/mv the "current" modules file that is there to another > location, and then try re-installing world The installation stuff for /modules assumes that /modules/ exists and is a directory. If it doesn't exist the first module install will create it as a normal file and the second install will fail. rm /modules ; mkdir -m 755 /modules P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message