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Date:      Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:58:23 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        IAccounts <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4
Message-ID:  <3E68B38F.70601@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030307083043.A6974-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>
References:  <20030307083043.A6974-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>

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ccounts wrote:
> Ok, everything went reasonably well with cvsup upgrade, buildworld,
> buildkernel. After installkernel, everything appears to load perfectly,
> until I try to send data to the box. IPFW barfs on a SIG 11.

What exactly do you mean by this?  When you transmit files across the
network, you get a sig 11?  Or when you try to start the IPFW program
at the command line, it sig 11s?

The former would worry me.  The latter wouldn't.  The ipfw firewall code
is built into the kernel, but the ipfw command line program that is used
to create/manipulate ipfw rules is part of buildworld.  It's not unusual
for programs that interface directly with the kernel not to work when you're
mid-way through the process (i.e. new kernel but old world).
I'm guessing what's happening is that the ipfw program can't communicate
to ipfw in the kernel and when your startup scrips try to run it, it sig 11s.
Thus you end up with ipfw running with no rules, set to deny by default,
thus you get no network capbility.

> Assuming that it is loading ok at boot, can I properly assume that this
> will be repaired when I installworld?

If the scenerio I described above seems to fit, yes.  Sounds like things
are going well.  If you want to be REAL paranoid, you could try rebuilding
your kernel with IFPW_DEFAULT_ACCEPT (or whatever that option is) and make
sure you have network connectivity before continuing.

I wouldn't bother if it were me.  It sounds like things are going well.
The main thing you're looking for is that the new kernel actually BOOTs.
Drop to single-user mode and do the installworld.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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