Re: /usr/src fails to compile in 8.0 after cvsup to RELENG_8

2010-06-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:31:53PM -0600, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: My server's boot disk finally died after four years of disk errors. I'm not sure what version I ran; whatever was stable in 2004. So I grabbed an old hard disk from work, and a copy of 8.0 release for AMD off the

Re: /usr/src fails to compile in 8.0 after cvsup to RELENG_8

2010-06-17 Thread William D. Colburn (Schlake)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: When you installed from CD, what things did you select in the menus, e.g. base, kernel, docs, info, etc.?  Did you select src?  If so, did you adopt the sources?  http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt  keep

Re: /usr/src fails to compile in 8.0 after cvsup to RELENG_8

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 13:29:39, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: If you wanted to try something, I would recommend downloading a 8.1-PRERELEASE snapshots and installing that. ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201006/ That would

Re: kernel panic on 8.1-rc1 amd64

2010-06-17 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Wed, June 16, 2010 23:00, Alexandre \Sunny\ Kovalenko wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 21:48 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Wed, June 16, 2010 15:48, Alexandre \Sunny\ Kovalenko wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:59 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: hail, has anyone seen a panic right after

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jun-15 17:22:50 -0700, Xin LI delp...@delphij.net wrote: On 2010/06/15 17:05, Sean Bruno wrote: A little more background. It looks like symlinks are getting stripped of their '/' which sucks. Ideas? ... e.g. /home/foo/bar - /opt/baz/blob becomes home/foo/bar - opt/baz/blob

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Sean
On 18/06/2010 6:53 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Jun-15 17:22:50 -0700, Xin LI delp...@delphij.net wrote: On 2010/06/15 17:05, Sean Bruno wrote: A little more background. It looks like symlinks are getting stripped of their '/' which sucks. Ideas? ... e.g. /home/foo/bar - /opt/baz/blob

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010/06/17 13:53, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Jun-15 17:22:50 -0700, Xin LI delp...@delphij.net wrote: On 2010/06/15 17:05, Sean Bruno wrote: A little more background. It looks like symlinks are getting stripped of their '/' which sucks.

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Sean
On 18/06/2010, at 8:02 AM, Leif Walsh wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Sean s...@gothic.net.au wrote: Easy. Create a symlink etc, to /etc Create a file etc/passwd containing whatever you want. This could be an artifact of coming from the Linux world and knowing little about the

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Leif Walsh
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Sean s...@gothic.net.au wrote: Easy. Create a symlink etc, to /etc Create a file etc/passwd containing whatever you want. This could be an artifact of coming from the Linux world and knowing little about the BSD kernel (and I should probably lurk a bit longer

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Leif Walsh
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Sean s...@gothic.net.au wrote: It only works if the user extracting already has permission to write there anyway. It's a means of taking advantage of a privileged user who extracts the tar. Bah, you're right. -- Cheers, Leif

Re: kernel panic on 8.1-rc1 amd64

2010-06-17 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:12 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Wed, June 16, 2010 23:00, Alexandre \Sunny\ Kovalenko wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 21:48 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Wed, June 16, 2010 15:48, Alexandre \Sunny\ Kovalenko wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:59 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos

FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available...

2010-06-17 Thread Ken Smith
The first Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network should be available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.