Re: Kernel Name Issues

From: Gary Schenk (gwschenk_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 10/20/03

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    To: lrenfrow <lrenfrow@arcomnet.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
    Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:16:03 -0700
    
    

    On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:33 am, lrenfrow wrote:
    > Greetings FreeBSD Gods,

    Hi. Sorry, but the FreeBSD Gods reside on the freebsd-questions list. If
    you send this along to that list, you'll find lots of folks willing to
    help.

    I just did my first system upgrade and it when very smooth. I went from
    4.7-RELEASE to 4.9-PRERELEASE. I also used portupgrade to install the
    latest software upgrades. After 2 days of compiling on my PIII 600 mhz,
    everything worked fine. Just lucky I guess.

    Good luck.
    Gary

    >
    > I've read though much documentation and I seem to be having some
    > issues with a problem. With all the latest security advisories going
    > twords FreeBSD lately I wanted to ensure I was on the correct release
    > so I ran a uname -a and was presented with an output of:
    >
    > FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep 2 22:25:29 EDT 2003
    >
    > Now this raises some concern for me.
    >
    > I had cvsup'ed the latest sources this morning and UPDATING says p8
    > I've performed the build operations stated in the handbook and in
    > /usr/src/UPDATING which are:
    >
    > remove /usr/obj/
    > Make buildworld
    > Make buildkernel
    > Make installkernel
    > Make installworld
    > Mergemaster stuff
    >
    > All these operations complete successfully with no error.
    >
    > My cvs-supfile is:
    >
    > *default host=cvsup11.freebsd.org
    > *default base=/usr
    > *default prefix=/usr
    > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_1
    > *default delete use-rel-suffix
    > *default compress
    > src-all
    >
    > I've tried cvsuping the latest GENERIC kernel and building and
    > installing that with no success..
    >
    > Sysctl gives this about the release.
    >
    > kern.ostype: FreeBSD
    > kern.version: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep 2 22:25:29 EDT 2003
    >
    > the /boot/kernel directories all have the correct date stamp
    >
    > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6144 Sep 25 12:22 kernel
    > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6144 Sep 25 10:08 kernel.old
    >
    > So why is this not updating.. It's still on a old kernel.
    >
    > I've tried both methods of building a kernel
    >
    > Cd /usr/src ; make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME
    > Make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME
    >
    > And the cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ ; config NAME && cd
    > ../compile/NAME ; make depend && make && make install
    >
    > Still no success.. There's nothing in the sysctl or rc.conf that
    > would restrict this from happening and I had set the fstab file w/ no
    > restrictions. I've don't this a million times and have never had this
    > problem.
    >
    > It appears though it really is on p8 but is not updating the uname
    > display.. But i'm no programmer and i'm unsure how that portion of
    > the OS gets changed.. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
    >

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