make buildworld fails and a reboot?
Eric F Crist
ecrist at adtechintegrated.com
Thu Feb 19 11:33:37 PST 2004
-----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
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