i386 update to latest -HEAD broke things

[Adrian Chadd]

r258446 built, installed and booted fine. I'll try a more recent i386
in a chroot soon.

Would someone please double-check -HEAD on i386 and see if it's ok?

Thanks,


-adrian

On 21 November 2013 19:23, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I just updated a laptop from a month old -HEAD to the latest -HEAD.
> Things .. didn't work.
>
> * No processes ran - they'd complain about being out of anonymous memory
> * /rescue/sh works fine, but /rescue/dhclient seems to be doing the
> wrong thing with regards to which dhclient-script it calls
> * .. and /rescue/dhclient-script also references things in /, which
> doesn't work. Grr.
>
> Anyway:
>
> * copying over a replacement ld.so from an i386 image from the 11th
> restored basic binaries, but things like fsck would randomly crap out
> * copying over the conents of /lib let things get further, but ssh
> died (jemalloc arena complaints, so I'm guessing maybe there's
> something odd going on here..)
> * copying over the contents of /usr/lib didn't improve things;
> * copying over the contents of /usr/lib/private fixed things enough to
> get ssh up so I can svn update to an earlier version.
>
> I'm currently rebuilding r258446 (one before the first weak reference
> change) to make sure that this userland is stable. If it works out,
> I'll try subsequent versions.
>
> Just be careful. :-0
>
>
>
> -adrian