Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:07:22 -0500 From: Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> To: "Mikhail Goriachev" <mikhailg@webanoide.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Complete loss of network on 6_STABLE Message-ID: <715841970704130307uc7e557are5d9e07efb85c11b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <461F33DA.6020709@webanoide.org> References: <715841970704121750g101c1b12m4f150b8d2871b80c@mail.gmail.com> <461F33DA.6020709@webanoide.org>
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On 4/13/07, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> wrote: > > Drew wrote: > > I have a 6 stable box that I cvsup'd at around 5:15am central US time > this > > morning. I did a buildworld and buildkernel on it after checking the > > UPDATING file and finding nothing since 6.2 release, ran mergemaster and > > rebooted, so I was a little surprised when it never came back. Once I > gained > > physical access to the box, I discovered it had no apparent ability to > open > > a sock - neither unix, nor udp nor tcp. I can ping localhost, but not > other > > IP's on my network. X tells me host.domain.name:0 is a bad display name. > So > > I need to know how to get things back up and running. Is this a known > > problem that has been fixed, or have I stumbled across something no one > else > > has seen? As a side note, I have to give major props to all the > developers - > > it sounds like my situation is really bad, but this is the first major > > problem I've had in over 7 years of tracking -STABLE of one version or > > another. Let me know if I can just cvsup another 6-stable box and burn > it to > > a disc and copy it off on here, or what I need to do to fix this, > because > > I'm lost. For the record: > > > > mergemaster -p > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel > > make installworld > > make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel > > mergemaster -a > > reboot > > > > came up with no sockets. At this point: > > > > rm -rf /usr/obj > > make clean > > make buildworld ...etc - still no sockets. > > > The proper upgrading procedure is described in /usr/src/Makefile > (starting from line ~41). Also check the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > By executing "mergemaster -a" you don't actually merge the files. This > may not update important files. > > If you're using customised kernel, then probably you took something > important out of it. Try GENERIC to rule this one out. > > > I hope this helps. > > Sorry, I had to go back and read my message to see what was there. I've > never used -a in my life, and I can only blame that not being a -v on all > the trouble I'm having with the keyboard on my wife's laptop. I don't know > how she types on this thing. But I'm building a generic kernel and we'll try > that. >
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