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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:19:05 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6.2 installworld fail
Message-ID:  <20020829181905.GA84885@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D6E36B1.8080305@401.cx>
References:  <3D6E36B1.8080305@401.cx>

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:58:57PM +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg typed:
> 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.
> <root@rocky /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.<domain> 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Mon Aug 
> 19 21:05:16 GMT 2002 
> root@rocky.<domain>:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROCKY  i386
> 
> Is the source tree broken right now, or am I doing something wrong?

I have been doing nightly build - install cycles for weeks on a 
testmachine, so I don't think the source tree is broken. Look for 
something all your machines have in common. What cvsupfile are you
using? What do you have in /etc/make.conf? That sort of things.

> 
> --
> R
> 
> 
> 
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