From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 17:17: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB6737B8A3 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:16:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp2-pa5.neomedia.it [195.103.207.114]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA01444; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:16:42 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:20:28 GMT Message-ID: <20000323.1202800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions [Failure] To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200003222302.QAA34431@harmony.village.org> References: <200003221532.KAA10998@akiva.homer.att.com> <200003222302.QAA34431@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/23/00, 12:02:42 AM, Warner Losh wrote regarding R= e:=20 HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions [Failure] : > In message <200003221532.KAA10998@akiva.homer.att.com> "J. W.=20 Ballantine" writes: > : I then shutdown now to single user mode, cd to /usr/src and > : do ``make -DNOINFO installworld''. This starts and continues to=20 /bin/test > : where it fails due to a kernel failure. > ??? > : When I try to reboot the system, with the RELENG_4 kernel I get: > : / not unmounted cleanly, run fsck and reboot. > : I go into single user mode and run fsck ; fsck -p ; fsck /dev/da0s1a= > : and a few sync's thrown in just for good luck, but still the same=20 error. > What's the error? > Warner Dear Warner Losh, I met an analogous error (due to a reboot) when upgrading to the=20 (then) 4-0 CURRENT. =20 I may be wrong, but I am afraid fsck, at this stage, is NOT able to=20 correct the problems. Personally, I booted from *another* FreeBSD slice and ran fsck from=20 there over the "would-be current" partitions :-) After which=20 operation, I was able to complete the (then) dreaded make world. Since=20 then , it has (apparently) worked like charm for me, at least as far=20 as my tasks are concerned :-)=20 HTH, Salvo =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message