From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 10:40:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B4A37B401 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B35543E4A for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:40:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22745; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:40:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3D6E5C76.2050307@owt.com> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:40:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6.2 installworld fail References: <3D6E36B1.8080305@401.cx> <3D6E5690.2080004@owt.com> <3D6E5AA7.4020205@401.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > > > Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >> >> Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: >> >>> Hi list. >>> >>> During the last 10 days or so, I have been unable to update any of my >>> machines using the cvsup and make buildworld procedure. >>> The machines are PII, dual Celeron, dual PIII and a few AMD's, all >>> high quality machines with plenty of ram, and they all fail. >>> >>> Some output from my last attempt. >>> Make buildworld is succesfull, but only a few seconds into make >>> installworld I get this: >>> >>> ===> bin/rmail >>> install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rmail /bin >>> install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 rmail.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 >>> ===> games >>> ===> games/adventure >>> install -c -s -o root -g games -m 550 adventure /usr/games/hide >>> (cd /usr/games; ln -fs dm adventure; chown -h root:wheel adventure) >>> chown: wheel: illegal group name >>> *** Error code 1 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/src/games/adventure. >>> *** Error code 1 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/src/games. >>> *** Error code 1 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/src. >>> *** Error code 1 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/src. >>> *** Error code 1 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/src. >>> *** Error code 1 >>> >>> Stop in /usr/src. >>> >>> Message from syslogd@rocky at Thu Aug 29 16:45:00 2002 ... >>> rocky Aug 29 16:45:00atrun[: cannot read /var/at/jobs/ >>> >>> Here it complains about the wheel group, but naturally the wheel >>> group exists, so what the error message says cant really be whats >>> causing it to fail. As you can see, it immediatly afterwards starts >>> to report some weird errors, such as cant read /var/at/jobs, followed >>> by malloc failures and similar. >>> The only way to recover the machine from this state is to restore >>> from backups, rebooting the machine or trying to continue using it >>> will leave you with a severely crippled system. Most processes fail >>> with segfault or memory allocation errors. >>> Ive tried cvsup with tag=RELENG_4, tag=RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE and >>> tag=RELENG_4_6_1_RELEASE. Ive tried different cvsup servers and I >>> have done make clean, and even deleted /usr/src and /usr/obj. Same >>> result in all cases. >>> >>> uname -a: >>> FreeBSD rocky. 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Mon Aug 19 >>> 21:05:16 GMT 2002 root@rocky.:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROCKY i386 >>> >>> Is the source tree broken right now, or am I doing something wrong? >> >> >> >> >> I think you are doing something wrong. I saw this message and >> proceeded to cvsup ports-all and rebuild my system. I had no problem >> doing that. >> >> I followed the example in /usr/src/UPDATING on upgrading to >> 4.x-stable. The test system is not running a kern_secure level and I >> boot into single user mode and run "adjkerntz -i" before I mount my >> file systems. >> >> I kind of wonder if you have a user games or if you have some sort of >> permission problem on your files systems. >> >> Kent > > > None of the systems are using kern_secure level, and single or multi > user mode makes no difference in my case. > These machines regularly build world and install, so I find it hard to > see how this could be a permission issue. The same thing happens on 6-7 > different machines, none configured similarly, and none with identical > hardware. One of the machines was actually installed as a FreeBSD 2.2.8 > and has been upgraded since using cvsup and is today a 4.5-STABLE, and > it has never before failed a make buildworld. > Just to make sure I took a spare drive, installed clean from the 4.5 > freebsd cd's, cvsuped and make buildworld. The installworld failed at > exactly the same place. > So far, I have tried cvsup.se and cvsup.no.freebsd.org. Right now I cant > see how this could be anything but bad source, so I will probably try > one of the main cvsup servers or perhaps cvsup to an older source and > try to build that. Since you are mostly up_to_date and there aren't a lot of changes right now, you might try cvsup16.freebsd.org. That is what I used. Kent > > Thanks anyway, I'll let you know how it turns out > > -- > R > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message