From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 19:30:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C1E2416A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:30:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8454743D53 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:30:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F995CE9; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34467-06; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-69-22.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.22]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93345C45; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42BB0DD3.2070502@mac.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:30:27 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Timby References: <42BB0C22.6010000@webexc.com> In-Reply-To: <42BB0C22.6010000@webexc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I killed my machine. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:30:29 -0000 Ben Timby wrote: [ ... ] > I understand a Signal 12 is a non-existant system call. The half > installworld probably caused this. > > How can I recover from this? The easiest way is probably to perform an "upgrade" from a 5.4 CD burned from the ISO image. Make sure you don't repartition or enable newfs, and it will leave your existing config files and other stuff alone. (Note that you do want to have a backup available, first. Of course, you made a backup of your 4.x system, or at least the important bits, before trying to do this 4->5 upgrade, right...?) -- -Chuck