Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:06:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: nellie@home.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <199809040706.JAA20741@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199809040449.OAA04701@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Sep 4, 98 02:49:45 pm"
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According to John Birrell: > dmb wrote: > > I cvsupped to get the current source, rm'd /usr/obj, ran make world, went > > smoothly... rebuilt a new kernel after make world finished, tried to > > reboot and got an error of bad system call, then it sig12'd... any ideas? > > You must be upgrading from a 2.2.X system. That's a normal (an unfortunate) > problem upgrading from 2.2.X to current. The aout->elf upgrade handles > this by saving the reboot program before installing the new one. You might > as well just sync the disk and cycle the power. This has worked for me > on the 6 or so occasions I forgot about reboot. Er... why not just get a clean shutdown with CTRL-ALT-DELETE at the console? /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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