Buildworld stops at etc/sendmail (was: can't install 'bin/sh')

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2003 15:05, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it's time that you show us your supfile?
> 
> Ok... I did yet another run at this. Cleaned out /usr/src, /usr/obj and 
> followed the steps outlined in:
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html>
> 
> This is a step by step guide through what I'm doing.
> 
> 1) Delete /usr/src and /usr/obj.
> 2) Running cvsup /usr/local/etc/cvsup/supfile (attached)
> 3) cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
> 4) ./mergemaster.sh -p (nothing unusual to report)
> 5) cd /usr/src
> 6) make -j4 buildworld
> 
> ===> etc/sendmail
> make: don't know how to make freebsd.cf. Stop
> *** Error code 2
> 
Sorry, but I have no idea why cvsup(1) doesn't bring you
the src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc file.

> 7) Then I did as Simone suggested:
> 
> cp /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freefall.mc /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc
> 
> 8) Removed /usr/obj again
> 9) cd /usr/src
> 10) make -j4 buildworld... TADA buildworld finished.
> 11) build and install new kernel
> 12) make -j4 installworld... 
> 
> ===> bin/sh
> install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555   sh /bin
> Could not execute shell
> *** Error code 1
> 
The correct sequence is to boot with the new kernel before
doing an installworld, as hinted in the src/UPDATING, its
COMMON ITEMS section.

> Right back to where I started... then exited bash and used the default shell 
> and ran installworld another time... and it completed without errors. I've 
> allways used bash, so I'm a bit puzzled by this.
> 
> 13) Lastly I finished the process by running mergemaster and noticed that 
> several files related to sendmail had been altered the last 1-2 days. Wonder 
> if it's this that bit me?
> 
> Anyway, I still don't know why my buildprocess bailed out at sendmail and 
> whether my system still is broken?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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