Problems with 'make world' stuff

Frank Laszlo laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Tue Oct 28 14:18:32 PST 2003


So you did not run mergemaster.
This is what i usually no.
NOTE: I do this on production servers, so i do not do it in single user
mode.

cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYCONF
make buildworld
make installkernel 
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot


Hope this helps.

-Frank


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:09, Jason Williams wrote:
> Once I had my sources updated, I did the following:
> 
> I booted into single mode:
> 
> cd /usr/src
> make buildworld
> 
> cd /usr/src
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> 
> I rebooted to test the kernel and that is where I ran into trouble. I did 
> not type make installworld as suggested in the handbook. It said to test 
> the kernel first.
> 
> I was told I did not have to run mergemaster since this was a brand new 
> install of 4.8. Is that incorrect?
> 
> I appreciate your help.
> 
> Jason
> 
> At 05:08 PM 10/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Did you build a new kernel as well as world? did you run mergemaster?
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 16:57, Jason Williams wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > Im pretty new to building my own world here, but im excited to learn it.
> > >
> > > I followed the handbook as suggested on how to make world.
> > >
> > > I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on my workstation. I installed cvsup and 
> > configured
> > > my stable-supfile as well as my ports-supfile. I updated my ports no 
> > problem.
> > > Here are the contents of my stable-supfile:
> > >
> > > *default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org
> > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> > > *default prefix=/usr
> > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
> > > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > >
> > > I did a: cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile and it did its work.
> > >
> > > I then proceeded as in the handbook.
> > >
> > > After I booted to my new kernel (I noticed it said FreeBSD 4.9 stable, 
> > so I
> > > booted correctly).
> > >
> > > However, im having some problems when I test the kernel: Specifically with
> > > 'top' and 'ps'
> > >
> > > # top
> > > kvm_open: proc size mismatch (34048 total, 1060 chunks)
> > > top: Out of memory.
> > >
> > > # ps
> > > ps: proc size mismatch (29792 total, 1060 chunks)
> > >
> > > At this point, I was going to go back and retry doing everything as
> > > suggested in the handbook.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, anyone have any idea what im missing or what is going on?
> > >
> > > I appreciate it.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
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