Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:46:38 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha is seriously broken Message-ID: <20040820144638.GA92603@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <p06110403bd4bbacb7bee@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20040820101817.GE27931@ip.net.ua> <1092999187.9863.2.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040820105915.GA29178@ip.net.ua> <1093000460.9863.4.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040820120757.GC29568@ip.net.ua> <xzpn00qeycb.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040820135844.GA76070@ip.net.ua> <p06110403bd4bbacb7bee@[128.113.24.47]>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Garance, Did you read this thread before replying? :-) On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:37:01AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:58 PM +0300 8/20/04, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 20, 2004, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes: > >> > I think there's no emergency plan other than to reinstall "base" > >> > on these systems from some older snapshot? > >> > > > cross-compile on a different machine in the cluster, copy over > > > the new make(1), then use it to installworld over NFS. > > > >Only if this machine is also Alpha. To tell you the truth, some bits > >produced by cross-compiles on different architectures are not ready > >for use on a native architecture. This includes binary files such as > >fortune(6) .dat files, NLS catalogs, etc. I haven't identified them > >all yet. >=20 > If this machine has been getting rebuilt frequently, then maybe you > can just boot up kernel.old and have a working machine. >=20 The problem is not with the kernel, but with libc. Moreover, it affects all statically linked binaries, so recompiling libc will not help to recover. :-( > If that does not work, and would a cross-compile work well-enough to > generate a new library (if the problem is a library), or a new kernel > (if the error is in the kernel). Or maybe just generate dynamically- > linked versions of make & cc. Even if cross-builds are not good > enough to do a complete buildworld, might they work well enough to > recover from this with less work than a complete reinstall? >=20 All static binaries on these two systems crash. Log in to beast and give it a try. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJg7OqRfpzJluFF4RAi1fAJ96lJ1+FtlcuRCWTO30+2BdyoAjoACfYjLk rnh4TCbu6sWoKVn2Zx3u028= =ND9f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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