From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 10:52:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D03937B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F7A43E4A for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <20030108185242051001qpm9e>; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:52:42 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h08IqfXt048182 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:52:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h08IqfoJ048179; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:52:41 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7Release - sed problems? References: <000a01c2b5ae$4867e2e0$c905010a@daylight.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 08 Jan 2003 13:52:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000a01c2b5ae$4867e2e0$c905010a@daylight.net> Message-ID: <44adib324m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John Brooks" writes: > I'm working on a new clean install of 4.7R from the iso. > > dmesg gives an error: > "pid 94 (sed), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)" > this comes from the 'sed' call in 'update_motd' > > installing applications from ports also fail on 'sed' calls > > release notes on 4.7 indicate: > "sed(1) now takes a -i option to enable in-place editing of files." > > my question: > Does this mean that the wrong version of sed is included in the iso of disk 1? No, the error would manifest differently if that were the case. Sounds like your sed binary is corrupt (or maybe a library). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message