Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-19 Thread Pete French
> Can others with remote systems comment about what they do in this step? installkernel, reboot, installworld, mergemaster, reboot. *But* - for remote systems I never make huge leaps. I would certainly never upgrade across a major version like you are doing. Fpr those upgrades (which are only onc

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello Toma, Adam, Jeremy and all. Thanks a lot for the comments. Very very helpful. I haven't tried the KVM over IP but willl look at it. In my case one the servers is on a remote site , in other country and for the prices when they have to "put hands in you server" for sure will be cheaper t

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > With all respect Doug, users that have remote machines and do not have > access to it to boot single user like the manual says.. what can we do? I > understand that step is to be sure that no user will modify something while > we

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:27:48AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: > At 01:55 a.m. 18/03/2010, Doug Barton wrote: > >On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Cristiano Deana wrote: > > > >>yes, i knew. > >>but i was updating via ssh, so forget "run in single user". i also > >>know the exact procedure, but i upgrade hundred

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > With all respect Doug, users that have remote machines and do not have > access to it to boot single user like the manual says.. what can we do? I > understand that step is to be sure that no user will modify something while > w

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 01:55 a.m. 18/03/2010, Doug Barton wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Cristiano Deana wrote: yes, i knew. but i was updating via ssh, so forget "run in single user". i also know the exact procedure, but i upgrade hundreds of times before today making this procedure and always went fine. So, it wo

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Cristiano Deana wrote: yes, i knew. but i was updating via ssh, so forget "run in single user". i also know the exact procedure, but i upgrade hundreds of times before today making this procedure and always went fine. So, it works just fine right up until the time it doesn

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Cristiano Deana wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Tom Evans wrote: > >>> make update >>> make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld >>> mergemaster >>> and i got a "bad system call (core dumped)". > >> You can't always run new userland on an old k

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Cristiano Deana
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Tom Evans wrote: >> make update >> make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld >> mergemaster >> and i got a "bad system call (core dumped)". > You can't always run new userland on an old kernel, but you can always > run old userland on a new kernel, whic

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cristiano Deana wrote: > Hi, > > anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? > > make update > make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld > mergemaster > and i got a "bad system call (core dumped)". > > reboot, mergemaster again and it

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote: > Hi, > > anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? > > make update > make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld I'm not familiar with upgrading a working 7.x to 8.x box, so I can't tell you for certa

7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Cristiano Deana
Hi, anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? make update make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld mergemaster and i got a "bad system call (core dumped)". reboot, mergemaster again and it was allright. i use freebsd from 3.3 (maybe) and this is the first time i