Re: Recovering base system files after failed installworld - RESOLVED

2010-03-16 Thread Alejandro Imass
(sorry, I had mailed this directly by mistake intead of the list) On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/03/2010 18:16:17, Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi, [...] Yes. In essence what you need to

Re: Recovering base system files after failed installworld - RESOLVED

2010-03-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/03/2010 22:34:47, Alejandro Imass wrote: Thanks Matthew for such a prompt and detailed answer and to give me the confidence I was in the right track! I think my main mistake was to jump from such an old version to the latest 7 release. This

Recovering base system files after failed installworld

2010-03-15 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hi, I tried upgrading from 6.2 STABLE to 7.3 RELEASE, and everything went very smooth until I rebooted the new kernel. Make installworld failed complaining that cc1 was not executable. After a lot of tests, I came to the conclusion that the new 7.3 kernel had some sort of problem with my gvinum

Re: Recovering base system files after failed installworld

2010-03-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/03/2010 18:16:17, Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi, I tried upgrading from 6.2 STABLE to 7.3 RELEASE, and everything went very smooth until I rebooted the new kernel. Make installworld failed complaining that cc1 was not executable. After a lot