From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 03:50:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BF216A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:50:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav3.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A0543D45 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:50:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tssajo@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:50:00 -0800 Received: from 24.24.201.219 by BAY2-DAV3.phx.gbl with DAV; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:49:40 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [24.24.201.219] X-Originating-Email: [tssajo@hotmail.com] X-Sender: tssajo@hotmail.com From: "Zoltan Frombach" To: "Dan Nelson" , References: <20041107033204.GA5512@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:49:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Nov 2004 03:50:00.0939 (UTC) FILETIME=[DB6A6BB0:01C4C47C] Subject: Re: portupgrade -af on FreeBSD 5.3 and I get two conftest signal 12 core dumps ?!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:50:01 -0000 Thank you for your response. I currently use the GENERIC kernel (UP), and I do not use (nor installed) Linux emulation at all. Well, I can probably find out which ports are causing these signal 12's by redirecting the output of 'portugrade -af' into a file... Zoltan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "Zoltan Frombach" Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:32 PM Subject: Re: portupgrade -af on FreeBSD 5.3 and I get two conftest signal 12 core dumps ?!! > In the last episode (Nov 06), Zoltan Frombach said: >> I've recently migrated to FreeBSD 5.3. I just upgraded my system to >> the brand new 5.3-RELEASE version, and first of all, I have to tell >> you that it works really great!! I love it! Thank you guys for the >> great work!! >> >> But I run into a somewhat weird problem. After the successful >> migration to 5.3-RELEASE from a previos 5.2-CURRENT version, when I >> recompile all installed ports with 'portupgrade -af', I get this in >> my system log file: >> >> Nov 6 16:59:54 www kernel: pid 8927 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal >> 12 (core dumped) >> Nov 6 17:14:16 www kernel: pid 2733 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal >> 12 (core dumped) >> >> But portupgrade proceeds and seemingly re-compiles all installed >> ports anyway (at least this is what I believe). When I look for the >> .core file(s), I can't find any on my hard drive anywhere! If the >> core was really dumped, then where did the .core files go? And how >> can I find out which port(s) are causing these problems? What is this >> signal 12 with conftest means anyway? I couldn't find anything about >> it by Googling... > > #define SIGSYS 12 /* non-existent system call invoked */ > > This is an unusual error to be getting, but it's possible that one of > the ports you tried to install tried to check for a syscall that either > doesn't exist or that you don't have enabled in your kernel (like the > POSIX realtime extensions, for example). It might also be caused by > one of the linux-emulation ports trying to do something the Linux > compat code doesn't handle. If all your ports built fine, don't worry > about it. > > You can't find the corefiles because they would have been in the port's > work directory which gets cleaned up automatically during the upgrade. > >> And one more question. When I cvsupped all-src for FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, I >> used the RELENG_5_3 branch. Or should I have used RELENG_5_3_0 ? What is >> the difference between the two now, as FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE was just >> released this afternoon? I guess, nothing. Am I correct? Or should I >> cvsup >> RELENG_5_3_0 ? Please advice! > > Depends on what you want. RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE is a tag (not a branch) > that points to what got burned onto the 5.3 release CDs. It doesn't > change. RELENG_5_3 is a branch based off of 5.3, that will contain > only security fixes. RELENG_5 is the -stable branch that will > eventually have 5.4, 5.6, etc branched from it. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com