On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 01:38:31AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:26:46PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jh...@dataix.net> wrote: > > > > > > Don't get why all these references for time are popping up here and why > > > everyone seems to think that would make the PATH variable get cut short > > > from the environment that newvers.sh is running in, but see the post I > > > made to the real thread a few moments earlier. > > > > > > > Its also a FAQ in the handbook: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#TOUCH-NOT-FOUND > > > > Keywords "...when booting into single user mode."
...which is what you're supposed to do when doing installworld. I *hope* the OP was booted into single-user when doing installworld -- if not: sigh. We (community members) have had this discussion before in the past, re: can installworld be done in multi-user safely. The absolutely 100% failsafe answer is "no, you need to do it in single-user". The "get'er'done!!!" answer is "it depends". There have **absolutely** been times in the past where single-user was required (I know because this bit me back in the day and it's how I learned my lesson). People often come to the lists asking if they can do installworld in multi-user because they lack console access (shame on them). Furthermore booting into single-user for installworld is explicitly stated in /usr/src/Makefile, which is effectively the source of truth when it comes to world rebuilding/updating. There are some other steps that should really make it into /usr/src/Makefile (such as the need to rm -fr /usr/share/man/* before doing the installworld phase, else you can end up with stale man/catman pages), but the existing method works reliably. So what part of the picture am I missing? :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
