From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 10:52:34 2005 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 E3B7616A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:52:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shane@phpboy.co.za) Received: from ctb-mesg9.saix.net (ctb-mesg9.saix.net [196.25.240.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6018A43D53 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:52:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shane@phpboy.co.za) Received: from phpboy (tbnb-165-208-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.165.208.1]) by ctb-mesg9.saix.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 68B4D6760; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:50:12 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <012901c5a319$9aa60a90$6c0aa8c0@phpboy> From: "Shane James" To: Cc: References: <000c01c5a2c3$42b4ba30$6b0aa8c0@phpboy> <4302FC2D.5010409@cs.tu-berlin.de> <00ca01c5a315$738c9180$6c0aa8c0@phpboy> <43031656.7020602@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:51:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Subject: Re: /usr/src 'make buildworld' problem 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: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:52:35 -0000 I'm going to backup all my configs and just reinstall... I've learn't an important lesson though! :P "ALways make sure your RELENGS are 100% correct" We can confirm this at http://www.freebsd.org/releng ta :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Björn König" To: "Shane James" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: Re: /usr/src 'make buildworld' problem Shane James wrote: > Well, > > I did something quite stupid... I cvsuped to RELENG_5_0 Accidently... > managed to get all the way to 'make installworld' but when I rebooted from > single user mode it wouldn't boot my new kernel... so I booted kernel.old > (5.3-RELEASE) that's working fine... so... I've now cvsuped to RELENG_5 > and get this error. > > So Essentially I'm trying to compile the kernel on a 5.3 kernel with 5.0 > compilers :/ Consider a binary update. Throw in a CD-ROM, choose "Upgrade" and follow the instructions. I'm not sure whether sysinstall makes a backup of /etc, because this upgrade overwrites configuration files, passwd and so on. Pay attention ... well, too late. :-P Björn