Re: STABLE on a new production system

2003-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Geoffrey wrote: > At the same time, it would not be a bad idea to encourage him to > get into the loop and build a 5.0 box and join -current and commits to at > least get a feel for what is going on. I didn't preclude any of that. I just answered his question. --

Re: buildworld error updating 4.6 --> stable

2003-03-16 Thread doug
Well $%^& - I spoke too soon. I thought I had past the problem area. It seems ncurses is used in lots of places. I am out of ideas. Same error same place different ../share/mk - sigh I am gonna read a good book for the rest of the evening. On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The error

Re: buildworld error updating 4.6 --> stable

2003-03-16 Thread doug
The answer was: cd /usr/share mv mk mk.old ln -s /usr/src/share/mk/ mk It would seem to me that this is either a build problem or might at least rate a line in UPDATING. Or perhaps buildworld use /usr/src/share/mk rather than the one that won't work?. A diff showed major work on mk. I assume th

Building my own release

2003-03-16 Thread William Denton
I was having a hell of a time downloading ISO images of 4.8-RC1 or 5.0 to install on an old machine I just got--they'd freeze, no matter what mirror I used--so I thought I'd try making my own release and ISO images. I could compile everything here, burn a CD, and I'd be all set. I read release (7

Re: Signal 11 on X server startup (Was: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update

2003-03-16 Thread Ted Faber
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:48:26AM -0500, Andrew J Caines wrote: > Starting the server as normal with xinit gives normal startup messages, then fails > with a signal 11: I have this problem, too. Same nv server. I'm happy to provide details. One that might help is that this is an Athelon XP 180