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Subject: what should uname -v be telling me here?
From: paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com>
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I noticed that uname -a isn't returning what I expect so I deleted and
re-pulled a source tree from svn, removed obj, and after a few
iterations of rebuilding kernels and removing anything I can think of
to resolve this, I'm at a loss.

# uname -v

FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #1 r264250M: Mon Apr  7 20:41:13 PDT 2014
root@shuttle.paulbeard.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE

# file /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE

/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE: cannot open
`/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE' (No such file or directory)


# sysctl kern.bootfile

kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel/kernel

# strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep STABLE

@(#)FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #0 r267927: Thu Jun 26 12:59:26 PDT 2014

FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #0 r267927: Thu Jun 26 12:59:26 PDT 2014

8.4-STABLE

# dmesg | head

Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.

Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #1 r264250M: Mon Apr  7 20:41:13 PDT 2014

    root@shuttle.paulbeard.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE i386

# find /boot -name kernel

/boot/kernel

/boot/kernel/kernel

Apr 7 is 80 days ago so I tried this as well:

# find obj src -mtime +79

no results




-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/