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Date:      Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:29:18 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recovering from a late "make installworld" failure?
Message-ID:  <20050610032917.GA58318@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <b34be84205060920233c274d02@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b34be84205060920233c274d02@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:23:21PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> After cvsuping and doing the usual make
> buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel, make installworld conked out,
> very late in the game by the looks of it. I wasn't able to capture the
> error message at the point of failure unfortunately.
> 
> Now it's all fun and games with even 'ls' segfaulting and 'make clean'
> / 'make cleanworld' hanging with:
> 
> "/usr/src/Makefile", line 91: warning: "/usr/bin/env -i
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin make  -f /dev/null -V
> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX dummy" returned non-zero status
> 
> and no further output.
> 
> This message:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031114153630.GA28567
> 
> describes a similar situation, and suggests:
> 
> "Reboot to single user mode and finish the installworld, 
> then boot multiuser and your fine again (hopefully)"
> 
> Good advice or not?

Maybe; this can happen if you e.g. forget to actually boot the new
kernel before installworld.  Or you could have destroyed your system
somehow and require a reinstall to recover.

Kris

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