>Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:41:19 +0200
>From: Szilveszter Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>First off, sorry for the lot of snippage but this mail was really
>long...
Yeah, it was; sorry. That's what I get for trying to be complete. :-)
I was able to re-do the steps, and evtually get to a point:
freebeast(5.0-C)[1] df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s3a 158767 63620 82446 44% /
devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s3e 1873113 709999 1013265 41% /usr
/dev/ad0s4h 27728233 11141233 14368742 44% /common
/dev/ad0s4g 2032839 487508 1382704 26% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
freebeast(5.0-C)[2] uname -a
FreeBSD freebeast.catwhisker.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Aug 12
15:34:30 PDT 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/common/S3/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBEAST i386
freebeast(5.0-C)[3]
which I consider "success". (Well, assuming I can use the resulting
system to rebuild itself, anyway.)
In this last attempt, I still got shell dying a rather un-graceful
death, probably (still) as a result of a SIGSYS. The key difference
this time was that after this happened, I hit RESET on the machine, and
when it started to come up, I interrupted the process to boot
single-user mode, and inserted some extra steps (in pseudo-unidiff
format relative to present contents of the relevant section of UPDATING):
To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current
-------------------------------------
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
cp src/sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
reboot in single user [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
+ <hit RESET>
+ reboot in single user [6]
+ make installworld
mergemaster [4]
[1]
<reboot>
...
+
+ [6] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
+ fsck -p
+ reboot in single user [3]
I do not claim that this is optimal, or that the result will actually be
solid enough to survive a "make buildworld", but it seems to me that the
instructions in UPDATING for the "upgrade from 4.x-stable to current"
case are not adequate in and of themselves as they presently stand (at
least in soome cases, mine among them), so I offer the above as a
possible modification that might help some folks.
I will save my logs (typescripts, really) of what I did for a few days,
in case anyone would care to review them. Note that this amounts to
about 10 MB of data, before you ask to get a copy.
Thanks,
david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
--
David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between Microsoft
and the discipline of systems administration, since they have nothing in
common.
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