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Date:      Tue, 18 May 1999 10:12:37 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup/3.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19990518101237.M89091@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905171422.KAA02625@akiva.homer.att.com>; from J. W. Ballantine on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 10:22:42AM -0400
References:  <199905171422.KAA02625@akiva.homer.att.com>

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On Monday, 17 May 1999 at 10:22:42 -0400, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>
> I did a sup on my 3.1-STABLE system Friday, early evening, and then
> did a make world and a kernel rebuild/install.  When I checked on
> the make world Saturday am, the screen was locked, so i rebooted the
> system and when it came up the kernel said it was 3.2-RELEASE.
> However, the system wouldn't start because /bin/sh was not in
> executable format.  When I was able to bring up the system using
> /bin/csh, I looked at the make world log and found it failed during
> an install in the games dir because bin was not a valid account on
> the system, yet bin is a valid user in the passwd file.

I haven't seen this bug.  What's the exact output.

> Did I sup at the wrong time and get ``bad''  source??

I don't think so.  The only problem reported during this time was a
problem in the threads library.

> Is there some major change between 3.1-STABLE and 3.2-RELEASE that
> resulted in the problem, or is there something else going on???

I suspect something else must be going on.  Have you tried to repeat
your installworld?

Greg
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