From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 01:22:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA07538 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07533 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA04251; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 03:21:50 -0600 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 03:21:49 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Snow To: Mark Hannon cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC won't compile on 2.1-Release ??? In-Reply-To: <199512090542.QAA00230@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I knew it had to be something silly like this. just rm -rf /usr/src/sys and THEN installed the new sys files and ALL IS WELL. Thanks for the tip. DaaaDupe, DaaaDupe... :-) On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Mark Hannon wrote: > In article you wrote: > > : I didn't do a make world since I used the install program to upgrade > : 205 to 210 including: bin, compat1x, compat20, des, manpages, xf86312. > > I vaguely remember a similar problem to this. I also used the upgrade > procedure to install new kernel sources. There are two problems > with this:- > > (1) The matcd driver has been moved around a bit and the filenames are > not all the same. This means that after upgrading you still have > some of the old files lying around. This seems to stuff things up. > If you clean /sys and then untar the sources you should get around > this problem. If this doesn't help..... > (2) The config options for matcd have changed... It is now declared as > > controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230 bio > > If you are trying to reuse your 2.0.5 config file then this could also > be a problem. > > : I installed src/ssys.* by hand like I've always done it: > > : cat ssys.* | (cd /sys ; tar xzf - ) > > : ( /sys is a symlink to /usr/src/sys ) > > : > > > : > > Something strange indeed. I've upgraded my 205 box to 210 and > : > > couldnt get my kernel to recompile (died in matcd). Hmm, probably > : > > bad ssys.* file, so I re-get them and same problem. Ok, something is > : > > funky with my config file or something has changed in 2.1. Lets just > : > > compile GENERIC to make sure. Sure enough it dies in matcd. > : > > > > Hope this helps. The problem with old files lying around is also an issue > in /usr/lib. There seem to be a number of old versions of the shared libs > hanging around but I haven't had the energy to go and clean them out yet. > Guess they don't hurt but my /usr is now over 100% full so it is probably > worth reclaming the disk space. > > /mark > > -- > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| > | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | > | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > > __________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org