5.1 -> 5.2 disaster

[Michael Clark]

First off, this is not a hardware problem!  It crashes at the exact same
spot over and over on multiple different commands.

I had a 5.1 - 5.2 upgrade via cvsup that went terribly wrong.  The machine
got rebooted and certain things would no longer work.  I cannot get a make
world, or make buildworld to work.  Errors on on the mtree command with:

mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  -p
/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include
*** Signal 12

When I try the line manually I get:

bash-2.05b# mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  -p
/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include
Bad system call (core dumped)

I have tried brining in a new kernel and /usr/bin and /usr/src from another
machine.  The problems just seem to get worse
Before we were only dumping on sendmail, now I have:

<snip>
pid 421 (sendmail), uid 25: exited on signal 12
pid 436 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
pid 509 (mysqld), uid 88: exited on signal 12
pid 534 (bandwidthd), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
pid 585 (man), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
pid 747 (mtree), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
pid 860 (sendmail), uid 25: exited on signal 12
pid 865 (sendmail), uid 25: exited on signal 12
<snip>
pid 880 (smbd), uid 1006: exited on signal 12
<snip>
pid 923 (ftpd), uid 1006: exited on signal 12
pid 1018 (mtree), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
pid 1110 (mtree), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
pid 1111 (man), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)
<snip>

Now, this is all messed up, We did save the original kernel, and the
/usr/bin and /usr/src

I was wondering...  Can I use the sysinstall upgrade option off a CD boot to
repair this??  If so what do I have to do since I have already been running
cvsup upgrades?  Sysinstall complained about this when I tried.

Open to suggestions!  

Desperately seeking help,
Michael



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