From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 13:20:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kinkajou.arc.nasa.gov (kinkajou.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.132.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E9637BAB0 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lamaster@nren.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (lamaster@localhost) by kinkajou.arc.nasa.gov (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA12487; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:20:36 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: kinkajou.arc.nasa.gov: lamaster owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: Hugh LaMaster X-Sender: lamaster@kinkajou.arc.nasa.gov To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cjclark@home.com, Ryuhei Tanabe Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 In-Reply-To: <20000217220642.B53575@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:06:42 -0500 > From: Crist J. Clark > Reply-To: cjclark@home.com > To: Ryuhei Tanabe > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Ryuhei Tanabe wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I'm currently running freebsd 2.2.8-stable on my machine. Well of course, > > I ve been thinking of upgrading my server to 3.x-stable. > > But I'm sort of scared of that I might just screw my server when I upgrade it. > > Is there any specific things, I should be very careful when upgrading > > Freebsd from 2.2.8 to 3.x ? My upgrade went pretty smoothly, generally, but, I'm kind of stuck on one smallish point. The M3 libraries seem to be a.out format only, but, newly downloaded versions of some utilities are looking for ELF versions of the libraries and these are not being found. For example, if I try to run cvsup, it seems to be looking for an ELF version of "libm3formsvbt.so.6" and can't find it. Since I can't get cvsup to work, I can't get the ports directory in sync, and so I'm nervous about trying to rebuild the M3 libraries. At this point, I'm not sure what the simplest way out of this little circle is. > To start with, > > 1) New boot blocks. > > 2) Incompatible wtmp and utmp between versions. > > 3) Rebuild shared-lib hints. Could you be specific on how to do this to resolve the above problem wrt the M3 libraries? -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 233-21, Email: lamaster@nren.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 Or: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Phone: 650/604-1056 Disc: Unofficial, personal *opinion*. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message