From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 10:13:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C55116A420 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vaaf@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A840043D46 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vaaf@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IW400IKV4F43900@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:13:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from urban.broadpark.no ([213.187.181.70]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IW400DFD4EVD080@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:13:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:13:44 +0100 From: Vaaf In-reply-to: <20060311144830.GB9892@flame.pc> To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-id: <7.0.1.0.2.20060314111123.02276240@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200602210922.38445.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060228121217.022172c0@broadpark.no> <200602281021.20107.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060303115508.022b1de0@broadpark.no> <20060303110514.GW11960@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <7.0.1.0.2.20060304174442.022ad158@broadpark.no> <20060304210846.GB46967@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <7.0.1.0.2.20060306172439.0225beb0@broadpark.no> <20060307131714.GI53121@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <7.0.1.0.2.20060311152610.0200afb0@broadpark.no> <20060311144830.GB9892@flame.pc> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:13:54 -0000 > >You haven't replied very usefully to some of my suggestions, at least. > >One of them was that with all these scripted trickery you had been >using, your /usr/include headers may be out of touch with reality. > ># Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:52:16 +0200 ># From: Giorgos Keramidas ># Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year ># To: Kristian Vaaf ># Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" , ># freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ># ># [...] ># ># > -------------------------------------------------------------- ># > >>> stage 2.3: build tools ># > -------------------------------------------------------------- ># > cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj INSTALL="sh ># > /usr/src/tools/install.sh" ># ># [...] ># ># It looks like your system headers may have serious problems. Is this ># system a clean installation of 5.4-RELEASE or one where you may have ># updated the system headers manually at some time? > >Any idea what a possible & useful answer to that question is? Considering I removed all of /usr/src and redownloaded it with cvsup, I would rule out this possibility. However I don't deny its possibility ... > > But then, what can it be? > > Is it time for the list to admit "there's nothing we can do"? > >No. It's time for you to start actually taking some of the suggestions >that you have missed, *and* replying to the questions that have been >unanswered (some time for weeks now), though :) > >It is highly unlikely that an upgrade process that works for hundreds of >systems around the world, even through a simple serial console >connection, somehow has decided to mysteriously fail only for you. > >It is obvious that you are doing something wrong (or that you have done >something wrong in the past, and are now seeing the consequences). We >just have to find out what that is. :) It would be real sweet not having to reinstall everything, even though I can restore all my configuration files in just one command. I'll continue snooping around, and get back to you guys. All the best, Vaaf