On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:23:21PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > After cvsuping and doing the usual make > buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel, make installworld conked out, > very late in the game by the looks of it. I wasn't able to capture the > error message at the point of failure unfortunately. > > Now it's all fun and games with even 'ls' segfaulting and 'make clean' > / 'make cleanworld' hanging with: > > "/usr/src/Makefile", line 91: warning: "/usr/bin/env -i > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin make -f /dev/null -V > MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX dummy" returned non-zero status > > and no further output. > > This message: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031114153630.GA28567 > > describes a similar situation, and suggests: > > "Reboot to single user mode and finish the installworld, > then boot multiuser and your fine again (hopefully)" > > Good advice or not?
Maybe; this can happen if you e.g. forget to actually boot the new kernel before installworld. Or you could have destroyed your system somehow and require a reinstall to recover. Kris
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