From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 12:52:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C142016A419 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C3313C48D for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so587403mue for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:51:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=dPbCXauWt6nrDdz8bfaDvuEYIWJJgoKhbMBc4LJTMrc=; b=LirRpaHo3MZlAnqKQYisyuth2YdMb+eqGnD3o+lGp23YCL/sa0uv/K7trL57M7So8pferlbbK63OXsvT2iF9JPHN92f0L4p/6nRTO8SZLwI9UOQlkYygyWAngaJq/c1oVUdHkuZJ4Lopp/V8BfQzR3sKjF+H/bWUEk8JVn1M0Hk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=MuzNbcweMQbUsswOxvha2YijB4ZYC6TorQV9Q6bN6mUgQJ000ayFP1FHJnwCkJMQxc/QhCeCcVy7mGbyrNHbEXMzBZamsBCxo5P2B0aAc4erkte6u5oBB5lP49x/YeyGerd+1E/dNTE1Veg2cN/dJJRcCgBStogmuvUz8hwMur4= Received: by 10.82.154.12 with SMTP id b12mr3903922bue.1193316716711; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.113.14 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6eb82e0710250551h544b2e43i73073b8196c50fe1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:51:56 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: HEADSUP: don't upgrade to RELENG_6 now [FIXED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:52:09 -0000 The breakage introduced by MFC of ctype(3) after 2007/10/24 14:23 UTC is now fixed. Make sure you have lib/Makefile rev 1.205.2.4 before upgrading your world. If it breaks already, please follow the instructions in src/UPDATING to recover. Sorry for all the troubles. Regards, Rong-En Fan On 10/25/07, Rong-en Fan wrote: > On 10/25/07, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > On 10/25/07, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > My installworld of RELENG_6 from a few hours ago failed with this error > > > (from memory): > > > /lib/libncurses.so.6: undefined symbol: __mb_sb_limit > > > > > > This broke everything that depended on libncurses, plus PAM. I had to > > > force a reboot via DDB and copy /usr/obj/lib/libc/libc.so.6 to /lib > > > using binaries from /rescue to fix it so I could run make installworld > > > again. > > > > I will take a look. before that do not upgrade your system. > > I did some tests, it turns out that only RELENG_6 is affected. To be > more specific, as ncurses lib is installed before libc. It gets broken. > For 7 and above, it is fine because we install libc right after csu and > before everything. > > One way to solve this is we install libc as early as possible, but I > think it may be too risky at release cycle, so I would like to back > out this change and add an UPDATING entry. Then check whether > we can change the installation order of libc later. > > If you cvsup after 'Oct 24 14:32:33 2007 UTC', please do not > upgrade until I send out all clear message. > > If you already broken your world, use this way in *single user*, > > /rescue/chflags noschg /lib/libc.so.6 > /rescue/cp /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc/libc.so.6 /lib/ > > then you need reboot, after that continue installworld (this is what I > just did). > > Sorry for all the trouble. > > Thanks, > Rong-En Fan > > > > > Regards, > > Rong-En Fan