Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:23:30 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bnonn <bnonn@orcon.net.nz> Subject: Re: Make buildworld and reboot Message-ID: <200503081323.30914.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <1110313889.8450.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1110313889.8450.31.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:31 pm, Bnonn wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I recently let a make buildworld run overnight following updating > source, and came back in the morning to find that the process had > completed successfully, but that my keyboard had gone completely > dead. I don't know why this happened, but it might have something to > do with having a USB keyboard. Anyway, I couldn't run make > installworld following this since the keyboard was no-go, so I was > forced to hard-reboot. If that is happening, then I would suspect you have hardware problems. The reasoning is that buildworld does not change your local environment and couldn't cause a hang. Everything that it builds goes into /usr/obj. Now, Murphy likes to embarass me but that is my current $0.02 :). Kent > > Not knowing a great deal about what make buildworld really does, I'm > not sure if the changes it effects are persistent through a reboot. > Do I need to run make buildworld again before running make > installworld? I've skimmed the manpages on make, but they seem > directed to the sort of people who want to create makefiles, rather > than just run them, and I thought I could probably get the quick and > dirty answer here without having to resort to three days of study :) > > Your help is appreciated > > Bnonn > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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