make buildworld fails and a reboot?

[Eric F Crist]

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswiger at mac.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:50 PM
To: ecrist at adtechintegrated.com
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