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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:56:23 +0000 (GMT)
From:      andreas <andreas@cp.net>
To:        Matthew Schroebel <mschroebel@yahoo.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make buildworld fail @/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl
Message-ID:  <20011101115605.I40354-100000@vmonkey.ops.cp.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011101164850.93282.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com>

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hey, thanx for your help, i guess reinstalling the box it is.

andreas

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Matthew Schroebel wrote:

> No, no-one answered.  There was a thread about it
> which said it was due to a 1 billion second bug in
> cvsup, and you needed to get cvsup-16.e.tgz, and
> install it, rm -rf /usr/src rm -rf /usr/obj, and cvsup
> again.  But that didn't work for me.  Someone also
> suggested to again delete everything, and re-cvsup
> again -- which makes no sense to me why that might
> work -- but I tried it, and it too failed.  What did
> work was to first upgrade to FreeBSD 4.2 from cdrom
> using cvs (and not cvsup and following the
> instructions in the README on the second cd).  Once
> 4.2 was on, I then cvsup'd to 4.4.  I tried that
> because I had no trouble upgrading from FreeBSD 4.2 to
> 4.4, but all the 4.0 boxes failed with the BrandELF
> problem.  That's one solution anyway.
>
> --- andreas <andreas@cp.net> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i saw your post to the freebsd stable list, and was
> > wondering if you ever
> > found out what was going wrong with your upgrade
> > from 4.0-release ->
> > 4.4-stable.  I am having the same issue where it
> > gives the ELF binary type
> > not known.
> >
> > ELF binary type not known.  Use "brandelf" to brand
> > it.
> > Abort trap
> > *** Error code 134
> >
> > thanx in advance,
> >
> > andreas
> >
>
>
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