Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:21:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: make world failed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004021320280.1758-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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I was running FreeBSD-3.4-STABLE and wanted to get to 4.0 now that it is listed as stable. I have done upgrades since 3.0 and started out like I usually do. I followed the instructions on "make world" closely... http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html ... and made sure the source was fully syncronized. I had synced it a couple of nights ago and give it one last update before starting yesterday afternoon. I checked /etc/group and needed no changes and dropped to single user mode. So far everything works as planned. I deleted the old /usr/obj files, started the script monitor and started "make world" in /usr/src/. After a couple of hours of compiling it started installing and finally failed. It died at lib/libcom_err/doc when trying to install info files and killed the rest of the installation and left me hanging. The machine was fractured and I was pretty much stuck. I still am. I cannot fully install the rest of the system due to errors in "make installworld" and going back to 3.4 would require much work. To attempt a fix on all this I mounted my FreeBSD 3.4 live filesystem disk from cdrom.com and got the old sh and make versions restored so I could attempt to manually run make installs on the rest of the binaries and config files. I was able to push through most of that but now my secondary drive, a western digital ide drive will no longer mount. It is complaining of an incorrect superblock number. What I was able to accomplish was building a new GENERIC 4.0 kernel, but binaries like vi, clear and top do not work properly. I have no idea why. So basically the ugprade has destroyed my machine and I am not very happy. Anybody have any suggestions on what I can do next? I am guessing I will have to purchase the 4.0 cd and run a clean install and wipe out my current system... and that option really does not make me happy since I will have to start over from scratch. I had things so nice in 3.4. All I wanted was support for my dvd drive. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: "The identical is equal to itself, since it is different." -- Franco Spisani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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