Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:38:59 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update Message-ID: <20050419163859.3C67F5D08@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:28:39 EDT." <20050419092839.74841c59.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:28:39 -0400 > From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> wrote: > > > I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD > > for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 > > because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, > > Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble. > > > > This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD > > Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it > > advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The > > Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through > > the following steps with no problem: > > > > # make buildworld > > # make installworld > > # mergemaster > > # reboot > > This is not correct, and this is not what 19.4.1 says. The correct > procedure is as Mike Schultz described. Please review that section of > the handbook. > > If you did, indeed, do as you described, then you have a world that's > out of sync with your kernel. Try this: > 1) Boot in to single user mode > 2) fsck > 3) mount -a > 4) cd /usr/src > 5) make buildkernel > 6) make installkernel > 7) reboot > > If you're unable to complete those steps, then you may be better off > reinstalling and trying again - write it off as part of the learning > process. There are ways to restore your system if you've made this > mistake and the above doesn't work, but it's rather advanced stuff. The right answer is to read and follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. (They are near the bottom of the file.) The list above missed adjkerntz (not needed if the hardware clock is running UTC). Adding swapon -a is a good safety net, too. I was recently bitten when I forgot. But rather then generate more poor or incomplete examples for people to trip over, the canonical answer should be to follow the instructions in UPDATING. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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