On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cristiano Deana <cristiano.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? > > make update > make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld > mergemaster > and i got a "bad system call (core dumped)". > > reboot, mergemaster again and it was allright. > > i use freebsd from 3.3 (maybe) and this is the first time i had to > reboot with new kernel/world to make a mergemaster (very dangerous, i > was remote). > > anyone else? >
You can't always run new userland on an old kernel, but you can always run old userland on a new kernel, which is why the process you went through is not the canonical way. See the handbook or /usr/src/UPDATING: To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. ----------------------------------------------------------- # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [1] <reboot in single user> [3] mergemaster -p [5] make installworld make delete-old mergemaster [4] <reboot> Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"