recurring installworld problem

[masta]

Scott Likens wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:19, Aron HÃ¥kanson wrote:
>
>>Tis 2003-11-18 klockan 00.25 skrev freebsd at msquaredweb.net:
>>>cvsup
>>>make buildworld
>>>make buildkernel
>>>make installkernel
>>>-- reboot --
>>>make installworld
>>>
>>...
>>>/usr/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh/complete.tcsh
>>>/usr/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh/csh-mode.el /usr/share/examples/tcsh
>>> gencat -new et_EE.ISO8859-15.cat et_EE.ISO8859-15.msg
>>> gencat:No such file or directory
>>...


[snip]

>
> Too bad finishing it only leads to more problems.
>
> Suddenly ls core dumps, hell everything does.
>
> anything that's dynamically linked core dumps on my Dual P2-450, nothing
> useful on the backtrace.  Quite fun as i'm trying to get everything
> straightened out.
>
> not quite sure how to, since even 'install' core dumps.
>
>


You can simply reboot with a livecd, and then finish the broken
installworld by either finishing it, or by copying the files from the
livecd to your /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin (respectively), and then
reboot to finish the install. I used to get that same error after the
statfs fiasco because my installworld didn't finish, I didn't even have
the gencat program, or the install program. A lot of folks have foiled
around with manually copying the files from /usr/obj/* to their respective
targets. If your not going to use a livecd to fix it, rebuild afterwards,
then you need to at least put your /rescue in your PATH before the broken
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin path stuff.




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unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep


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