Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:15:57 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha is seriously broken Message-ID: <p06110404bd4bcd9ce4f8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040820144638.GA92603@ip.net.ua> References: <20040820101817.GE27931@ip.net.ua> <1092999187.9863.2.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040820105915.GA29178@ip.net.ua> <1093000460.9863.4.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040820120757.GC29568@ip.net.ua> <xzpn00qeycb.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040820135844.GA76070@ip.net.ua> <p06110403bd4bbacb7bee@[128.113.24.47]> <20040820144638.GA92603@ip.net.ua>
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At 5:46 PM +0300 8/20/04, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >Garance, > >Did you read this thread before replying? :-) I did read all the emails that I had received before I wrote what I wrote. You may have written other emails by then, but I had not received them so I did not read them. From the emails I had read, I thought you were hoping someone could suggest some alternative ideas. I was just trying to be helpful. I'm not sure why you had to respond with some smart-ass sarcasm. > > If that does not work, and would a cross-compile work well-enough to >> generate a new library (if the problem is a library), or a new kernel >> (if the error is in the kernel). Or maybe just generate dynamically- >> linked versions of make & cc. Even if cross-builds are not good >> enough to do a complete buildworld, might they work well enough to > > recover from this with less work than a complete reinstall? > >All static binaries on these two systems crash. Log in to beast >and give it a try. I thought most of the system was dynamically linked these days. In any case, I still think my suggestion *might* work out, but if you are sure it is a waste of time to even try then I guess a full install is the only way out. If I can login, then I assume slogin/scp must be working, and I assume beast still has some filesystems nfs-mounted from other machines. If it were *me* with my lone sparc64 machine, I would try to create a "dry spot to stand on" by scp-ing some fixed-binaries into the box, and then nfs-mount a successful buildworld done on some other machine, and see how far that got me. I admit that some times my attempts to avoid a re-install have probably taken me more time than the re-install would have, but other times it has been well worth the attempt. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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