Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:37:06 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Weirdness trying -STABLE -> -CURRENT Message-ID: <200208111837.g7BIb6Be019544@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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I've been tracking each of -STABLE & -CURRENT for a while now, so
it's been almost a year since I tried the -STABLE -> -CURRENT upgrade
path. Still, I was a bit skeptical when someone on the #FreeBSD
channel at irc.sage-members.org indicated that the "make installworld"
was failing for him, typically with /bin/sh dying in some strange way.
In an effort to get a better idea of what any issues might be,
therefore, after I built today's -STABLE (on slice 1) and today's
-CURRENT (on slice 4), I did the following on my SMP (2x866MHz PIII)
build machine:
* cloned slice 1 to slice 3 (dump|restore ad0s1a -> ad0s3a & ad0s1e ->
ad0s3e, followed by tweaking etc/fstab on ad0s3a & changing the
obj symlink on ad0s3e to point to /common/S3/obj instead of
/common/S1/obj).
* reboot from slice 3 (multi-user mode); verify that I was running 4.6-S
as of this morning.
* rm -fr /usr/obj/usr/src
* rm -fr /usr/src/*
* cd /usr && cvs -d /cvs/freebsd checkout src [/cvs/freebsd is the
FreeBSD portion of my local CVS repository; my ~/.cvsrc has "-P" as an
automatic command-line flag for the "checkout" command.]
* cd src/i386/conf && ln -s /common/local/src/kernels/current/FREEBEAST .
* whoami && mount && cd /usr/src && uname -a && date && make -j8
buildworld && date && make kernel KERNCONF=FREEBEAST && date
[This proceeded OK up to the "make kernel," at which point I was
reminded that I should only go so far as "make buildkernel" before
copying /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints.]
* (per above) cp sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints &&
date && make kernel KERNCONF=FREEBEAST && date
* reboot (single-user mode)
Now, at this step, I see something a bit odd:
Console: serial port
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/523200kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@freebeast.catwhisker.org, Sun Aug 11 09:29:25 PDT 2002)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Warning: syntax error on file /boot/device.hints
machine i386
^
Warning: syntax error on file /boot/loader.conf
$
^
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x237e0c data=0x35db4+0x6f72c syms=[0x4+0x36820+0x4+0x421d1]
* fsck -p
* mount -u /
* mount -a
* cd /usr/src
* adjkerntz -i
* mergemaster -p
* make installworld
... and this step appears to fail to terminate in a useful manner: I
get as far as:
....
===> usr.bin/biff
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 biff /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 biff.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/brandelf
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 brandelf /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 brandelf.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/bzip2
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 bzip2 /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 bzip2.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/bunzip2.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/bzip2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bzcat.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/bzip2.1.gz
===> usr.bin/bzip2/doc
install-info --quiet --defsection="Programming & development tools." --defentry= bzip2.info /usr/share/info/dir
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 bzip2.info.gz /usr/share/info
/usr/bin/bunzip2 -> /usr/bin/bzip2
/usr/bin/bzcat -> /usr/bin/bzip2
===> usr.bin/c89
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 c89 /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 c89.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/calendar
insptall -o root -g iwheel -m 444 /ud ~z*M~3~W~IK~~k~n%C19K~=c~~1+=K#rB*J~iS~jj~M+IC){I)v~V[{){11~IKv }s!c }~H(k!I~W%UyI{19U+19~!I#W%U19jBVV{MIK~WYxj
and the machine appears at this point to be non-responsive. I had
cut/pasted the above from the serial console; seeing no way to get
the machine to wake up, I'll hit the reset button... and I find
that after "boot -s" I see:
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK boot -s
/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x2e29c data=0x1804+0x6e0 syms=[0x4+0x50b0+0x4+0x6913]
-
where things just sit. (I.e., the "spinner" doesn't spin.)
OK; I hit the magic reset button, then hit "space" soon enough to
intercept the attempt to load /boot/loader from slice 3, and told it
to load the one from slice 1, boot single-user, and I'm doing a "fsck -p"
as I type.
OK; I brought it back up under today's -STABLE, and looking at the typescript
file, I see that it ends thusly:
===> usr.bin/cap_mkdb
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 cap_mkdb /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 cap_mkdb.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/catman
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 catman /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 catman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/chat
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 chat /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 chat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8
===> usr.bin/checknr
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 checknr /usr/bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 checknr.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/chflags
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 chflags /bin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 chflags.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> usr.bin/chpass
[ ! -e /usr/bin/chpass ] || chflags noschg /usr/bin/chpass || true
*** Signal 12
Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/chpass.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
#
So I get the impression that folks who are complaining about the shell
getting a SIGSYS probably aren't hallucinating (about that, anyway), and
to the extent that there's a (non-recovered) mistake in the procedure I
followed, perhaps the effected folks are doing something similar.
At least my -CURRENT built under -CURRENT (same kernel config file)
seems OK....
Cheers,
david
--
David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org
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and the discipline of systems administration, since they have nothing in
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