From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 17:19:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from reiteration.net (pc-62-31-233-54-se.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.233.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4F137B404 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jfm@localhost) by reiteration.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g390JPi59254; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:19:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jfm) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:19:24 +0100 From: John To: Roger Williams Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installworld doesn't Message-ID: <20020409011924.B3939@shell.reiteration.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rogerw1962@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:45:00PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:45:00PM -0400, Roger Williams wrote: > more than 10 failures the "freebsd suggested way" with doing nothing > different. But dont forget to update your pw file and group file to include > the new mail user smmsp and use "mergemaster -v" at the end (this will > update your /etc dir and do MAKEDEV if needed). Many things are different > this time around. > Unfortunately, make world stuck in the *exact* same place as well :( -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Making hierarchy -------------------------------------------------------------- cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy cd /usr/src/etc; make distrib-dirs set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/locale.deprecated`; while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do for dir in /usr/share/locale /usr/share/nls /usr/local/share/nls; do test -d /${dir} && cd /${dir}; test -L "$2" && rm -rf "$2"; test \! -L "$1" && test -d "$1" && mv "$1" "$2"; done; shift; shift; done mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p / maybe the best bet is a restore from backup? The most frustrating thing is that the process just hangs .. nothing in logs at all. The box itself carries on its merry way. However, I bet that if the box is rebooted, it won't come back up again without major surgery. Next step is to stop following stable and to redownload version plus bugfixes of 4.5. (once I discover the cvsup version syntax :)). If that fails, its the backups (which I dont really want to do as they are a month old...) -- John - jfm@reiteration.net - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger jfm@reiteration.net or see webpage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message