Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 22:02:15 +0400 (MSD) From: "Andrew L. Neporada" <andrew@Chg.RU> To: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does anyone succeed on making world from 3.5S to 4.1S ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008052146570.80396-100000@netserv1.chg.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000805074424.J20416@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Fred Condo wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:03:07PM +0400, Andrew L. Neporada wrote: > > -- Andrew. > > > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, jack wrote: > > > > > Today H . S . YOON wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone succeed on making world from 3.5S to 4.1S? > > > > > > A buildworld of 4.1-RELEASE on a 3.5-RELEASE box worked for me. > > > I haven't installed it yet. > > > > Buildworld (sources approx. 4.1-RC2, system - 3.5-STABLE) worked for me > > too, but when I made installworld it fails with Signal 12 in the middle of > > process. Subsequent runs of make installworld cause immediate failure > > with message obout LC_CTIME!=... (sorry, don't remember details). I'm sure > > this is not a hardware issue because it happens on two different boxes > > (not overclocked) > > This happened to me, too, in the midst of a hot upgrade of a > production server. It happens because the newly built shell > makes a system call that your 3.x kernel lacks. (Signal 12 is > unimplemented system call.) > > I thought I was going to have to upgrade from CD, but after a little > thought, I was able to work around this because I *also* had the 3.x > sources in /usr/src3 (I was feeling paranoid, and I'm glad). I went > into /usr/src3/bin/sh and did a make install -- that restored a good > shell. Then it went back to my 4.1 sources and did a make > installkernel, did the rest of the steps to install the new kernel as > /kernel, and rebooted single-user. Hmm, I did not have 3.x sources, so I thought I was going to do a binary upgrade from CD. Fortunately, I succeded in booting with new (4.x) kernel in single user mode. I have installed it *before* doing installworld (as recommended in UPDATING). After that I successfully made installworld. P.S. Thanks anyway for your advise. > > I was then able to make installworld. > > If you do not have the 3.x sources available, you will probably have > to boot from a CD and do an upgrade install of 4.0 or 4.1-RELEASE, > then re-cvsup, rebuild your world and kernel, and install your kernel > before doing your installworld. > > -- > Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us > This above all -- to thine own self be true. -- Wm. Shakespeare > --Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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