-Original Message-
From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: FreeBSD questions List
Subject: Re: make buildworld fails and a reboot?
Eric F Crist wrote:
Hey all. I figured out why my system doesn't seem to be working. For
some
reason, make world failed and the system rebooted. Now, I can't cvsup
any
new sources. How do I recover from this?
make world doesn't always result in a working system, which is why the
procedure in UPDATING has many more steps (but which should be safe[r]).
You haven't provided an error message as to what happens when you try to
cvsup; what happens when you try? For that matter, you haven't told us
which
version of FreeBSD you are running and what branch of the sources you
were
building world with...
Please tell me I don't have to reinstall from scratch.
Oh, it's absolutely certain that you could recover in other ways, but it
also
might be the case that doing a clean reinstall is faster than any of
these
alternatives.
--
-Chuck
Chuck, sorry about the lack of information. Here's the dilly-oh.
I've got a FreeBSD 5.2 system. I've figured out that cvsup doesn't work
because nslookup doesn't exist on the system. I figure I could just
copy the binary from my 4.9 system and try from there. I use the
RELENG_5_2 tag for CVSUP. I'm thinking this is wrong. Bah. In the
mean time, I'm going to try copying the nslookup exec from my 4.9 laptop
and see if I can't get cvsup to work like that. Dig works just fine,
which is why I think this method could work.
If all else fails, I'll just start a rebuild tonight.
Thanks,
Eric F Crist
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