Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:57:24 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: upgraded to -CURRENT (?) et al. Message-ID: <20000308.23572400@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Dear users, I (last) cvupped -CURRENT on 6 March at about 11:00 pm GMT, and, with few (necessary) variations, I tried to follow the instructions in UPDATING on the next day. I *seem* to have upgraded to -CURRENT. FWIW, here is what I did: 1) /usr/src/make -j48 buildworld 2) /usr/src/sbin/mknod/make install 3) followed the directions to build/install a kernel. Remark: config -r core dumps (bad system call); config (no option) does not. 4) rebuilt disk /dev entries; updated the relevant files (/etc/fstab). In order not to forget anything, I issued various grep -r commands. 5) reboot in s.u.m. Remark I : the root partition is seen as wd1s2a; the others are seen correctly. Remark II: if one happens to reboot, one meets a FATAL TRAP; after rebooting, one is denied access to / . Workaround: I booted from another installation of mine (-STABLE) on another slice, and ran fsck from there. 6) /usr/src/make installworld I got this error: lib/libcom_errdoc [omissis] unrecognized option `--defsection=3DProgramming & development tools.' Error code 1 (six times) 7) /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/make clean all install NOSHARED=3DYES 8) /usr/src/make installworld It failed with the same errors as sub 6). 9) /usr/src/make -DNOINFO installworld I got another error: install: genassym: no such file or directory. Error code 71. Error code 1 (five times.) It was time to use ... the Force. 10) /usr/src/make -DNOINFO -k installworld 11) /usr/src/make -k installworld Alas, I did not log the sessions sub 10) and sub 11) because ... I did NOT believe I would succeed in making installworld #@[]*^=A7 [severely censored] 12) mergemaster, devices, sysinstall and (yet another) kernel by the book. Remark I: making sysintall failed: undefined reference in pccard Initialize. Error code 1. Remark II: this time config -r worked. If I had used -k properly, I would have finished earlier. I suppose I am somehow running -CURRENT (?) N.B. I am Italian and I chose MD5, discarding everything DES-related. I suppose this has automagically eliminated a few problems. Under -STABLE, I used to compile my kernels with a0ffa0ff flags for my IDE disks 0 and 1, and b0ff for my third IDE disk. Under -CURRENT, I specified the ata driver as per the suggestions in LINT, and I did NOT specified ata0 and ata1; which are indicated for older systems. The log messages show that all three disks are accessed in UDMA 33 mode and are seen as having **16** heads. However, I must miss something obvious here (yawn) how can I specify the LBA mode for my third disk ? Is it automagically set ??? I fear I can corrupt part of my filesytems: my /usr lives on my third IDE disk (formerly accessed in LBA mode.) Another problem. I get "isa0: unexpected tag 14" while booting. What am I missing ? There are other questions: e.g. X authentication fails. Pam.conf and ttys are all right, though. Before attacking all of them (grepping -r the d***ed wd disks and recompiling the related ports ...), I would like to be in a position to recompile things in /usr without running any risks to destroy that filesystem. In this way, I will also be able te remake the world once more ... I thank you very much in advance for any help. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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