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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:03:06 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bad system call - world build 
Message-ID:  <199710201433.AAA01025@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:52:43 %2B0200." <19971020145243.29303@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 

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> > > ===> share/termcap
> > > ex - /a/src/share/termcap/termcap.src < /a/src/share/termcap/reorder > /dev/null
> > > Bad system call - core dumped
...
> > This is almost a FAQ.  Build a new kernel first, boot with it, then
> > you should be able to continue.
> 
> Not quite, Greg. Normally I know what to do when proc.h has been changed
> (ps/w etc. weirdnesses) but in this case I'm not sure whether
> building a new kernel (3.0-current) and booting it on top of a
> set of (up to then) 2.2.2-binaries would be a could remedy here.

Funnily enough, Greg is quite right.  I almost feel that I'm insulting 
him by backing him up, but Chris, this *is* a FAQ, and if you were 
reading the -current list like you're supposed to, you would know all 
about this.

You do need a newer kernel to get past this.  The issue *was*announced* 
when the change was made.  There was some attempt made to put in place 
code to deal with the new system call, but it appears to have been 
unsuccessful and at any rate is only needed for the bootstrapping case. 
Going from 2.x to 3.x is going to get harder, not easier.

> I will more likely follow the advice of your forespeaker, namely
> excluding the termcap subdir from the worldbuild.

This is stupid, and fails to address the problem.

mike





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