Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:11:37 -0700 From: Joe Warner <rootman22@attbi.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> Subject: IT'S FIXED!! Whew! (was:Make Installworld fills up / ...help!) Message-ID: <3C24B0B9.2597A8D9@attbi.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0112181526200.86140-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3C22915C.F31E2C61@attbi.com> <20011220174037.A1142@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C2294FE.CB900677@attbi.com> <20011220180038.A3775@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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OK, what Brooks recommended below ended up being the culprit/solution to my woes! Luckily, 'cat' was the only program that got whacked and I was able to continue with 'make installworld' from where I left off. The question still remains: "How did this happen to begin with? ..and is it documented anywhere? I'm retaining all email/notes (in hard copy) pertaining to this problem and how it got fixed but if there isn't any related documentation, I'd be willing to compose some in efforts to help others avoid/deal with this problem. If everyone thinks this might be helpful, where would I send it? The FreeBSD documentation project? I could also compose something that would appear on Daemon News. Finally, I'm left with some cleanup work to do. My / directory is now at 96% capacity and I need to reduce this to a more manageable level. Does anyone know the best way to accomplish this? I know that I could delete etc.old, modules.old and kernel.old but is this safe? Here is the output of 'df -kl', 'swapinfo' and 'du -kscx -I usr -I var *' respectively: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad1s1a 49583 43931 1686 96% / /dev/ad1s1f 5775733 1675698 3637977 32% /usr /dev/ad1s1e 19815 7054 11176 39% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc ----------------------------------------------------------- Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/ad1s1b 266432 0 266432 0% Interleaved ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 A 5 COPYRIGHT 3912 bin 714 boot 1 cdrom 0 compat 9089 dev 1 dist 1356 etc 1348 etc.old 0 home 2400 kernel 3192 kernel.GENERIC 2384 kernel.old 1 mail 1 mnt 5082 modules 19 proc 40 root 11665 sbin 2726 stand 0 sys 0 tmp 0 ttyv0 43937 total ----------------------------------------------- Thanks goes out to everybody who helped me fix this. I'm truly appreciative!! 8^) Happy Holidays!! Joe Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:48:46PM -0700, Joe Warner wrote: > > > > I'm noticing that certain commands that used to work like > > 'cat' do not work any longer and when I boot kernel.old > > and go to my desktop with 'startx', Netscape doesn't > > work any longer and gives a similar error like when I > > tried to install 'sudo' from ports. > > This is a strong indication you no longer have a /bin/cat. If that's > the case you can restore it with: > > cd /usr/src/bin/cat/ > make depend > make all install > > Hopefully, you only lost one program, otherwise you need to hunt for all > of them and do something similar to replace them. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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