On 4/25/2013 3:35 PM, Tuc wrote:
Hi,
Figured this might be a bit more than -questions worthy...
I was following some instructions online about upgrading 7 to 8...
And... Well... Something went horribly wrong during "make installworld".
I lost my ssh session (Mistake 1 - Console dummy!) and now in multiuser
I can't log in. I logged in single user and commands are iffy about
working. "ls" is fine, but "ls -l" coredumps. I tried to redo the
installworld, but it seems to get somewhere in libc man pages and then
quits. Could be that "ln" is screwed.
Any thoughts on how to recover? I did an rsync of the system elsewhere
beforehand, so if it works I probably could just get it all back that
way. I was HOPING to go forward to 8. Is there some way I can do the
equiv of a "make installworld&&make installkernel" off some media so I
don't overwrite config, password, group, etc.
Thanks, Tuc
Try logging in and rebuilding world. First set your path to include
/rescue before /bin. You can rebuild in single user mode without a
problem, probably. When you install, don't use -j. If it fails, just
document where it fails and post back. If you have another FreeBSD
system available, you can use a flash drive to install to and from, just
set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to the mount location. Don't forget the final
mergemaster.
Also, did you remember `mergemaster -p` beforehand?
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