Re: error when doing make installworld

On Sunday 24 December 2006 16:42, Dino Vliet wrote:
--- Beech Rintoul <freebsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday 24 December 2006 09:00, Dino Vliet wrote:
Hi Beech,

many thanks for your clear help. I will try that

in a

few moments....

However, I wanted to ask you something else

becuase of

your quote:

"Doing a make installworld before finding out if

the

new kernel will boot will bite you big time at

some

point"

Unquote

How am I able to find out if the new kernel will

boot

then? Because I have done this a few times
already....but I don't like to be biten:-)
A nice Christmas eve too:-)

Dino

--- Beech Rintoul <freebsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:
On Sunday 24 December:46, Dino Vliet wrote:
Hi peeps,

I have tried to update my src with cvsup and

got

stuck

because of an error while doing make

installworld.

My system is an amd64 machine running freebsd

6.1

and

I have performed the steps without problems:
-make buildworld
-make buildkernel kernconf=mykkernel
-make installkernel kernconf=mykernel

Normally I would then immediately follow this

sequence

with a mergemaster -p, make installworld and
mergemaster -i and then reboot.

However, this time I decided to check the

handbook

and

saw that it recommended to do a boot into

single

user

mode between the step -make installkernel
kernconf=mykernel AND the step mergemaster -p.

So I did it and when I rebooted and saw the

beastie

splash screen, I hit option 4. Then I had to

press

enter to get to the shell. When I did I

noticed I

couldn't cd into the /usr/src directory

because

the

/usr/src directory was missing!

The filesystem is not mounted in single user

mode.

You need to do
a "mount -a" which will read /etc/fstab and

mount

the slices. After that you
can cd normally. Also, you should not do a make
installworld in multi-user.
You should do that step in single user before

you

run mergemaster. Doing a
make installworld before finding out if the new
kernel will boot will bite
you big time at some point. Believe me I've been
there.

Beech

So I rebooted again into multi-user mode and

here

I

tried the mergemaster -p but it failed with:

===> lib/libcom_err/doc (install)
lockf -k /usr/share/info/dir install-info

--quiet

--defsection="Programming & development

tools."

--defentry="* libcom_err: (com_err). A

Common

Error Description Library for UNIX."

com_err.info

/usr/share/info/dir
install -o root -g wheel -m 444

com_err.info.gz

/usr/share/info
===> lib/libcrypt (install)
install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444

libcrypt.a

/usr/lib
install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444

libcrypt_p.a

/usr/lib
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444 -fschg -S
libcrypt.so.3 /lib
install: rename: /lib/INS@9du9 to

/lib/libcrypt.so.3:
Operation not permitted
*** Error code 71

Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcrypt.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/lib.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
[root@zouk /usr/src]#


So, what to do now???

O yeah, I've been running my system from
securelevel=3, so maybe that has something to

do

with

this also.

Any help will be appreciated...

(Yes, it's Christmas eve, I know, but hey that

gives

me a lot of time to check things out).

Thanks

ps is this bad? Should I start evacuate all my
important files while I'm still able to?

The proper way is:

make buildworld
make kernel (KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL) if custom
reboot to single user
If the new kernel doesn't boot reboot and hit the
space bar at the boot prompt
boot kernel.old
If the new kernel boots OK
mount -a
cd /usr/src
make installworld
mergemaster
exit

The main thing is you don't want to install the new
userland before finding
out if the new kernel boots. If you install the
userland it's very possible

=== message truncated ===

Thanks Beech,

you helped me out very well and I have learned a lot
too. I will go on and update my notes because I had it
all wrong.

You're welcome. Please note that issues such as this are discussed in detail
in the handbook.

"/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook" on your machine or
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html online.

Also doing a google search will more often than not provide an answer to your
question.

Merry Christmas,

Beech

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