Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:04:06 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transition from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-BETA2 Message-ID: <20040829120406.GA52614@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408290951240.26175-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408290951240.26175-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:58:41AM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > Hi, after make buildworld,make buildkernel, make install kernel > i rebooted single-user, just to find out that > ls, mount, etc.. gave > ls exited with signal 12, > bad system call. > > After i rebooted with the old 5.1 kernel and did make buildkernel > *with* COMPAT_FREEBSD4, i could reboot single user with > 5.3 and run ls,mount, etc... just fine. This was covered by the 20031112 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING. As a general rule, you should use GENERIC instead of a custom kernel configuration (or a GENERIC config from a previous release) when updating, at least on branches that aren't marked -STABLE. > What has COMPAT_FREEBSD4 has to do, since i *didnt* have it in my > 5.1-RELEASE-p10, and no FreeBSD 4.x programs were run? I believe the rationale was that no -STABLE releases after FreeBSD 4 used the old statfs() interface. I agree that the name is misleading. Tim
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