powerpc64 update from source kernel panic (11.0)

[Mark Millard]

On 2017-Jul-4, at 1:54 PM, Alan Braslau <braslau.list at comcast.net> wrote:

>> Alan Braslau braslau.list at comcast.net wrote on
>> Tue Jul 4 16:01:41 UTC 2017 :
>> 
>>> I installed freebsd 11.0 powerpc64 on an iMac G5 without any
>>> problems and have installed a fairly complete functional system.
>>> 
>>> However, upgrading from source (unmodified configuration) results
>>> in a kernel panic upon boot. Has anyone experienced this?  
> . . .
> I'm sorry, I thought that it could be assumed that I installed RELEASE:
> I simply installed 11.0-RELEASE-p1 (from an iso image) and updated the
> source from base/releng/11.0 which gave me revision 320623.
> 
> 	make buildworld
> 	make kernel
> 	shutdown -r now
> -> kernel panic
> then...
> 	boot kernel.old
> 
> I did not try anything custom.

I probably also should have asked if you are
using 32-bit FreeBSD or 64-bit. (G5's can use
either when things are working.)

-r320623 is from head (not from releng/11.0/ ):

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/?view=log s shows:

Revision 320623 - Directory Listing 
Modified Mon Jul 3 23:27:57 2017 UTC (23 hours, 2 minutes ago) by jasone
Update jemalloc to 5.0.1.

If this is real then you have jumped to a binary incompatible
kernel relative to your world. (That may not be the only
problem and you might not have even got that far.)

As of when I looked head was up to -r320659 .

I list the below in case the 320623 is a typo or some such. . .

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/11.0/?view=log shows:

-r317487 from 2017-Apr-27
-r316722 from 2017-Apr-12
-r314125 from 2017-Feb-23
(I'll stop there.)

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/11.1/?view=log shows:

-r320654 from 2017-Jul-4
-r320639 from 2017-Jul-4
-r320608 from 2017-Jul-3
(I'll stop there.)

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/?view=log shows:

-r320645 from 2017-Jul-4
-r320641 from 2017-Jul-4
-r320638 from 2017-Jul-4
-r320621 from 2017-Jul-3
(I'll stop there.)


Can you report for sure what you actually got?

===
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net