On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> Recently I've been trying to upgrade an early januarrry -current to
> current -current. I've rebuilt the kernel several times over the last few
> days (with new cvsup's) so i've eliminated any freak check-in mismatches.
>
> During a make world (usually about 10-20 minutes in on my P100) everything
> just comes to a grinding halt. No disk activity, but the screen saver will
> kick in (despite the shell being in the middle of said make world).
>
> If I switch to any alternate consoles and try to do anything, even an ls, it
> accesses the disk for a brief second, then hangs as well. Other tasks that
> don't need to access the disk keep running (such as natd and obviously the
> screen saver).
>
> After waiting about a half hour, I hit the reset and get lots of UNREF
> FILE's and SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD and BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS. They all
> say slavaged or cleared.
But you didn't look in /var/log/messages? For shame!
>
> It doesn't appear to be a problem with the actual disk, since rebooting
> works fine until I try and build again. Even building the kernel works
> fine. but doing a make world does not (I don't know if anything else causes
> this). It never fails in the same place twice either, but it's always the
> same effect.
What you should have said is "It doesn't appear to be a problem with the actual
disk, since rebooting with a different brand disk of the same capabilities
doesn't work." or vice versa.
>
> Additionally, i've been getting No such user 'tty', service ignored messages
> from ntalk and comsat. I'm sure these services were updated to make use of
> some tty user or something, but i'd like to know what exactly I should do
> here.
Look in src/etc/master.passwd. vipw and add the lines for users you don't have.
>
> I'm also getting messages from de0 and lo0 that say:
>
> de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen
That's mostly harmless. It's a warning to driver maintainers that was just
put in recently; the driver hasn't ever set ifq_maxlen, no doubt.
>
> Finally, if I try and run top i get:
>
> top: cannot read swaplist: kvm_read: Bad address
> kvm_open: proc size mismatch (11392 total, 680 chunks)
> top: Out of memory.
>
> I assume this is from a newer kernel with older support files (such as top)
> but since I can't get world to build, I'm kinda stuck..
Yes it is, but the proper order is to make th world and then make the kernel.
>
> One more thing. I figured I might try a complete reinstallation so I tried
> to download the 4.0-snap of 2-11 and was able to successfully create a
> kern.flp but when I tried to create mfsroot.flp it seems to sit in a loop
> forever just moving the disk head back and forth. I tried it with several
> floppies (including the one I was able to successfully create kern.flp on)
> with the same results.
>
>
>
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