Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:40:37 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going from 8.0-CURRENT to RELENG_7 Message-ID: <4711ABD5.80902@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <1192328840.810.12.camel@RabbitsDen>
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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > This is basically a warning and an advise -- as usual -- YMMV. > > I have missed HEADS-UP that RELENG_7 has been branched and found myself > running 8.0 after cvsup/buildworld/installworld cycle. Since I wanted to > stick to RELENG_7 and since branching occured 2 days ago, I've figured I > should be able to change tag in SUPFILE cvsup and rebuild. > > Hence the warning: *don't do that* -- buildworld failed midway with > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "__mb_sb_limit" referenced from > COPY relocation in sh. > > and you are left with non-working system. > > Now the advice part: *do not despair* -- you can boot into single user > mode, use /rescue/sh, manually copy > > /bin/sh > /usr/bin/make > /usr/bin/awk > /usr/sbin/mtree > /usr/sbin/zic > /lib/libedit.so.6 > /lib/libncurses.so.7 > > from your OBJ directory, then do 'make installworld' twice (something > non-important failed in the first pass) and you should be back in > business. > > Hopefully, everyone on the list reads it diligently and does not need > such advice, but if you shot yourself in the foot, here is the chance to > avoid reinstalling the system from scratch. There was no HEADS UP sent, see other recent posts on the topic. Thank you for the advice! Per olofhome | help
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