make installworld error

[kstewart]

On Friday 20 August 2004 02:06 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> After going through a cvsup
> make buildworld
> make kernel
> reboot
>
> I am now on make installworld
>
> I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make installworld to run,
> but finally after seemingly corrected all the changes wtih mergemaster,
> make installworld ran.
>
> Well, it ran for a good while but then errored out with:
>
> install -o root -g wheel -m 444 test.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
> *** Signal 12
>
> Stop in /usr/src/bin/test.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src/bin.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
>
> And that's it.
>
> Any ideas as to what is going on?
>
> Wait a minute. I just noticed that, whereas I've made bash my default
> shell, I don't think it understands any commands now.  And now I just
> rebooted and it can't find a shell to boot into.
>
> Now I'm really screwed.

You are supposed to hit the spacebar at the twirling thing and do a
boot -s
It will ask you if sh is ok and you use that.

Kent

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