Problems with upgrading 5.4 stable to 6.0 stable

Albert Shih shih at math.jussieu.fr
Sun Nov 6 18:34:22 GMT 2005


 Le 06/11/2005 à 13:28:23-0500, Alan Polinsky a écrit
> I have been having repeated difficulties in upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0.
> My problems start in the make buildworld step. The last successful
> compile step is:
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/libipf created for ./usr/src/sbin/ipf/libipf
> 
> >From that point I get a series of cascading errors. I tried ignoring
> them, but could not successfully build the kernel. I have looked through
> documentation at your site, but could not find a resolulution. 
> 
> This is my only exposure to freebsd. I have several linux boxes at home
> that I use with no problems. At work I am a unix (Solaris 8) and
> application programmer under windows.
> 
> These are the cascading errors:
> 
> ===> sbin/ipf/ipf(obj) mkdir; /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: file exists
> *** Error code 1
> stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf.
> *** Error code 1
> stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf
> *** Error code 1
> stop in /usr/src/sbin
> *** Error code 1
> stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
> stop in /usr/src

Very easy to solve 

	cd /usr
	rm -rf obj

That's work for me.

Regards.

--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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