Kernel Name Issues

[Gary Schenk]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:33 am, lrenfrow wrote:
> Greetings FreeBSD Gods,

Hi. Sorry, but the FreeBSD Gods reside on the freebsd-questions list. If 
you send this along to that list, you'll find lots of folks willing to 
help.

I just did my first system upgrade and it when very smooth. I went from 
4.7-RELEASE to 4.9-PRERELEASE. I also used portupgrade to install the 
latest software upgrades. After 2 days of compiling on my PIII 600 mhz, 
everything worked fine. Just lucky I guess.

Good luck.
Gary

>
> I've read though much documentation and I seem to be having some
> issues with a problem. With all the latest security advisories going
> twords FreeBSD lately I wanted to ensure I was on the correct release
> so I ran a uname -a and was presented with an output of:
>
> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep  2 22:25:29 EDT 2003
>
> Now this raises some concern for me.
>
> I had cvsup'ed the latest sources this morning and UPDATING says p8
> I've performed the build operations stated in the handbook and in
> /usr/src/UPDATING which are:
>
> remove /usr/obj/
> Make buildworld
> Make buildkernel
> Make installkernel
> Make installworld
> Mergemaster stuff
>
> All these operations complete successfully with no error.
>
> My cvs-supfile is:
>
> *default host=cvsup11.freebsd.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs    tag=RELENG_5_1
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all
>
> I've tried cvsuping the latest GENERIC kernel and building and
> installing that with no success..
>
> Sysctl gives this about the release.
>
> kern.ostype: FreeBSD
> kern.version: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Sep  2 22:25:29 EDT 2003
>
> the /boot/kernel directories  all have the correct date stamp
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  -   6144 Sep 25 12:22 kernel
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  -   6144 Sep 25 10:08 kernel.old
>
> So why is this not updating..  It's still on a old kernel.
>
> I've tried both methods of building a kernel
>
> Cd /usr/src ; make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME
> Make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME
>
> And the cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ ; config NAME && cd
> ../compile/NAME ; make depend && make && make install
>
> Still no success.. There's nothing in the sysctl or rc.conf that
> would restrict this from happening and I had set the fstab file w/ no
> restrictions. I've don't this a million times and have never had this
> problem.
>
> It appears though it really is on p8 but is not updating the uname
> display.. But i'm no programmer and i'm unsure how that portion of
> the OS gets changed..  Any help would be greatly appriciated.
>