NFS installkernel broke with "make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop"

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Sun Aug 22 07:31:55 PDT 2004


But only for one of the 2 machines that I upgrade with the same procedure.

I don't get it!  :-(


I have 3 machines that play a role in this:
* freebeast -- an SMP "build machine".  It has a private mirror of the
  FreeBSD CVS repo, updated daily, and tracks RELENG_4 on a daily basis.

* bunrab -- the machine I'm using to write this message.

* janus -- another machine.

The latter 2 machines are (for me) "production" machines; freebeast
is not.  The production machines do not build their own kernels (or
much of anything else); those are built on freebeast.

This morning, as I have for hundreds of previous occasions (every
day for almost 3 years now), I updated /usr/src on freebeast, did
the usual steps to build & install a snapshot of RELENG_4 as of the
time of the CVS repo update, then rebooted.

All was well.

Then (as I have for 74 previous occasions), I built new kernels for
each of bunrab & janus; no problems.

Then for each of bunrab & janus, I logged in and issued

	sudo script /tmp/u

Within "script," then, I issued a command alias that expanded to:

	mount -u -w /usr && mount -o ro {freebeast:,}/usr/src && \
	mount -o ro freebeast:/common/S1/obj /usr/obj && \
	cd /usr/src && whoami && mount && uname -a && date && \
	make installkernel && date && \
	rm -fr /usr/include.old && date && \
	mv /usr/include{,.old} && date && \
	mergemaster -p -u 0022 && date && \
	make installworld && date && \
	 mergemaster -u 0022 -i && date && df -k

as I have for the vast bulk of the previous 74 times.

On bunrab, the process completed with no unusual phenomena:

bunrab(4.10-S)[1] uname -a
FreeBSD bunrab.catwhisker.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #74: Sun Aug 22 06:02:42 PDT 2004     root at freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/BUNRAB  i386
bunrab(4.10-S)[2] 

On janus, I got:

Script started on Sun Aug 22 06:24:28 2004
janus(4.10-S)[1] _iw
root
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s3e on /var (ufs, local)
mfs:23 on /tmp (mfs, asynchronous, local)
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
freebeast:/usr/src on /usr/src (nfs, read-only)
freebeast:/common/S1/obj on /usr/obj (nfs, read-only)
FreeBSD janus.catwhisker.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #73: Sun Aug  8 06:09:37 PDT 2004     root at freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/JANUS  i386
Sun Aug 22 06:24:31 PDT 2004

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Making hierarchy
--------------------------------------------------------------
cd /usr/src;  MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj  MACHINE_ARCH=i386  MACHINE=i386  OBJFORMAT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec  GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin  GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/groff_font  GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/tmac PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy
cd /usr/src/etc;		make distrib-dirs
set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/locale.deprecated`;  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  for dir in /usr/share/locale  /usr/share/nls  /usr/local/share/nls;  do  test -d /${dir} && cd /${dir};  test -L "$2" && rm -rf "$2";  test \! -L "$1" && test -d "$1" && mv "$1" "$2";  done;  shift; shift;  done
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  -p /usr/include
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  -p /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist -p /
cd /; rm -f /sys; ln -s usr/src/sys sys
cd /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1; ln -sf ../man* .
cd /usr/share/man;  set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/man.alias`;  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  rm -rf "$1";  ln -s "$2" "$1";  shift; shift;  done
cd /usr/share/locale;  set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/locale.alias`;  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  rm -rf "$1";  ln -s "$2" "$1";  shift; shift;  done
cd /usr/share/openssl/man/en.ISO8859-1; ln -sf ../man* .
cd /usr/share/nls;  set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/nls.alias`;  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  rm -rf "$1";  ln -s "$2" "$1";  shift; shift;  done

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Installing kernel
--------------------------------------------------------------
cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/;  MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj  MACHINE_ARCH=i386  MACHINE=i386  OBJFORMAT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec  GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin  GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/groff_font  GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/tmac PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin  make KERNEL=kernel install
make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/src.

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
janus(4.10-S)[2] 

[end of log excerpt from janus]


Now, I admit that janus:/etc/make.conf is a little different from the
corresponding file on bunrab: In addition to specifying a different
kernel image, the one on janus also specifies:

NOPORTDOCS=     true
NO_SHAREDOCS=   true
NOGAMES=        true
NOINFO=         true
NO_OBJC=        true

(as well as its own SENDMAIL_MC).

I tried taking the above NO* lines out of make.conf and re-trying the
"make installkernel;" I got the same failure.

I verified that /usr/share/mk/bsd.README was visible on janus (recall
that /usr/src is a read-only NFS mount); it certainly didn't complain:

janus(4.10-S)[2] ls -l /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.README
-rw-rw-r--  1 admin  wheel  11267 Jul 19  2002 /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.README
janus(4.10-S)[3] 

And same with /usr/share/mk.bsd.README:

janus(4.10-S)[3] ls -l /usr/share/mk/bsd.README 
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  11267 Aug  8 06:28 /usr/share/mk/bsd.README
janus(4.10-S)[4] 

I tried adding some debug flags to the "make" invocation:

janus(4.10-S)[6] pwd
/usr/src
janus(4.10-S)[7] make -d c -d d -d l -d m installkernel && date
Caching /usr/share/mk...done
expanding "sys.mk".../usr/share/mk/sys.mk 
lhs = "", rhs = "", op = ==
... [lots of lines elided...]
Searching for bsd.subdir.mk...failed.
Searching for bsd.subdir.mk...failed.
Searching for bsd.subdir.mk.../usr/src/share/mk...here...returning /usr/src/shar
e/mk/bsd.subdir.mk
Searching for bsd.init.mk...failed.
Searching for bsd.init.mk...failed.
Searching for bsd.init.mk.../usr/src/share/mk...here...returning /usr/src/share/
mk/bsd.init.mk
Searching for bsd.sys.mk...failed.
Searching for bsd.sys.mk...failed.
Searching for bsd.sys.mk.../usr/src/share/mk...here...returning /usr/src/share/m
k/bsd.sys.mk
Searching for .depend...failed.
Searching for .depend.../usr/src/share/mk...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.c...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.cc...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.cpp...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.cxx...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.C...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.F...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.f...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.e...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.r...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.sh...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.y...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall.l...failed.
Searching for beforeinstall...failed.
Examining beforeinstall...Searching for beforeinstall...failed.
non-existent...non-existent and no sources...out-of-date.
update time:  6:34:04 Aug 22, 2004
Searching for _proginstall.c...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.cc...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.cpp...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.cxx...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.C...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.F...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.f...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.e...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.r...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.sh...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.y...failed.
Searching for _proginstall.l...failed.
Searching for _proginstall...failed.
Examining _proginstall...Searching for _proginstall...failed.
non-existent...non-existent and no sources...out-of-date.
update time:  6:34:04 Aug 22, 2004
Searching for bsd.README.c...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.cc...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.cpp...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.cxx...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.C...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.F...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.f...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.e...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.r...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.sh...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.y...failed.
Searching for bsd.README.l...failed.
Searching for bsd.README...failed.
Examining bsd.README...Searching for bsd.README...failed.
non-existent...non-existent and no sources...out-of-date.
make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
janus(4.10-S)[8] 

[end of this log excerpt]


At this point, I'm confused and stuck.  The machine seems to be
operating OK otherwise.

I would appreciate any hints or clues for finding (and fixing) the cause
of this error.

Thanks,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
Evidence of curmudgeonliness:  becoming irritated with the usage of the
word "speed" in contexts referring to quantification of network
performance, as opposed to "bandwidth" or "latency."


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