How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

[Stacey Roberts]

Hi Christian,
   Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.., 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Hiris <4711 at chello.at>"
To: To freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 01 Dec, 2004 13:07 GMT
Subject: Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 07:05, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello Christain,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christian Hiris <4711 at chello.at>"
> > To: To freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Date: Wed, 01 Dec, 2004 05:40 GMT
> > Subject: Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from
> > 5.1 to 5-Stable?
> >
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> > > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:12, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > > Okay.., I've just scripted the output from "make installworld" at step
> > > > 15 of the migration guide, and its failed as before.
> > > >
> > > > I've got the output redirected to a file: /var/tmp/installworld.log,
> > > > however, I'm in single-user mode, and nothing works: ls, mount, etc..,
> > > > how do I get this file off this system so that I can post it to the
> > > > list for assistance?
> > > >
> > > > At this point, I can (manually) show the last bit of the failed attempt
> > > > for make installworld:
> > > >
> > > > ===> bin/test
> > > > install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555  test /bin
> > > > install -o root -g wheel -m 444 test.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
> > > > pid 45090 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
> > > > *** Signal 10
> > > > Stop in /usr/src/bin/test.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > > Stop in /usr/src.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> >
> > I've managed to get the log file off the machine. I've attached it here in
> > gzipped format for anyone that is able (including yourself, if you like) to
> > be able to look at it in its entirety.
> >
> > > This eventually points out a problem in your memory or harddisk
> > > subsystem, I had such errors on incompatible disk controllers starting at
> > > 5.1. This kind of errors silently destroyed the data on my system
> > > (happened with HPT onboard controllers on an Via-KT600 board). Double,
> > > better, triple fsck your filesystems and check CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS
> > > settings in /etc/make.conf.
> >
> > I've found that I can reboot the system into multiuser mode, however there
> > *are* lots of programs core-dumping all over the place (sendmail, exited on
> > signal 11 - for instance)..,
> 
> This happens because you install target fails and there are a lot of old 
> binaries installed on your system. 
> 
> >
> > > Did you set your kernel timezone with "adjkerntz -i"?
> >
> > Yes.., followed the migration guide to the letter, save for scripting step
> > 15 as I originally asked about here..,
> >
> > I'm actually preparing to head off-site here at present, but will get back
> > to this later on today.., hopefully there'd be more information on the
> > situation after examination of the log file output by a kind soul..,
> 
> The only thing I can find, is that the install of the test man page fails. I 
> can't tell you why this happens. Maybe there is a problem with removing your 
> old test.1.gz (ie. disk access error). 
> First I would try to manually remove the test man-page by the command  
> "/bin/rm  /usr/share/man/man1/test.1.gz" and run the install target again.

What I've been doing is swapping hardware around on this box in order to get 5.3-REL CD-Sets to boot on this machine.., What I found is that swapping out the Tekram card for an Adaptec-29160 enabled (for whatever reason) to be able to boot and install off the 5.3-REL CD's.

After (using the 29160 SCSI disk utility) formatting both SCSI disks, the installation went fine, until the first reboot - I get the following:

No /boot/loader

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel
No /kernel

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel
boot:

I've tried (following another format on both disks) reinstalling with another set of 5.3-REL cd's, and get the same error..,

I'm thinking that I should now try to swap the disks as well.., but the last thing I tried was to install Fedora Core-3 again, and ...., it installs and boots into Fedora fine! Again, using the same disks and SCSI cards..,

Thanks again for the time and patience on this.., Let me know what you think, please..,

Regards,

Stacey


> 
> If the install target still fails with test.1.gz, have a closer look 
> on /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/test/test.1.gz. I attached 5.3 version of it as of 
> Nov, 26th.
> 
> # cd /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/test
> # ls -l
> total 24
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1800 Nov 26 16:14 .depend
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9839 Nov 26 16:21 test
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2654 Nov 26 16:21 test.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  6708 Nov 26 16:21 test.o
> #
> 
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