From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 2: 8:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3F037B5FE for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 02:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:40849 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:08:17 +0200 Received: (qmail 1552 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Apr 2000 09:01:19 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:01:19 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating to 4.0 from sources Message-ID: <20000408110119.A1523@student.csd.uu.se> References: <38EE4E8E.957194A1@picusnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38EE4E8E.957194A1@picusnet.com>; from wdf@picusnet.com on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:09:34PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:09:34PM -0400, William Freeman wrote: > > Ok, here is the deal. every time i try and install either FreeBSD 4.0 or > 5.0-CURRENT > as downloaded with CVSup, when it gets to building bin/test, i get > Signal 12(core > dumped) and then i can't write to the disk or anything. when i reboot, > it makes me > enter full path to shell to enter single user mode, and when i enter > /bin/csh or /bin/sh, it > gives me Exited on Signal 12(core dumped) and i have to reinstall from > thee looserly > 3.3-R CDs i've had for a while (i had just been updating with CVSup > since then). > anyone know what the problem is? > No, but I had almost the same problems some time ago. The difference is that I was tracking 3.4-stable rather than 4.x But the same symptoms, something went wrong with /bin/test during installworld and then half the programs in /bin would core dump as soon as I tried to run them. (Including /bin/sh and /bin/csh) I fixed it by booting with a fixit-disk and copied all the files from the /bin directory on my 3.2-CD to my /bin, nuked /usr/obj and finally did a new make world. At the time I put it down to flaky hardware (or something) and I have (thankfully) not seen it again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message