From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 1:57:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648BD37B401 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14SFjA-0005Wh-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:57:00 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA11214; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:56:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 10990; Mon Feb 12 11:55:45 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14SFhw-0007UG-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:55:44 +0200 To: John Indra Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My world is totally broken. Request help... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:19:57 +0700." <20010212161957.A40299@office.naver.co.id> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:55:44 +0200 Message-ID: <28783.981971744@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:19:57 +0700, John Indra wrote: > Please help me to overcome this. My world is totally broken. ps and top > don't work. fetchmail, and other program seems to lost STDOUT. After failed > installworld, I reboot my machine, blew away /usr/obj and make clean in > /usr/src. Now when I want to rebuild the world, make just don't want to do > its jobs anymore :( 1) In multi-user mode, try to update your source tree to RELENG_4. 2) Drop to single-user mode. 3) cd /usr/src make cleandir make cleandir # (Yes, twice) 4) make buildworld 5) make buildkernel 6) make installkernel 7) make installworld 8) mergemaster 9) reboot If your box is hosed to the point where that doesn't work and you don't know how to fix each problem manually, you'll be better off going for a binary installation of 4.x-RELEASE and then updating to 4.x-STABLE. Seriously, now's not the time to run CURRENT "for fun". Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message