Make buildworld and reboot

[Kent Stewart]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:31 pm, Bnonn wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I recently let a make buildworld run overnight following updating
> source, and came back in the morning to find that the process had
> completed successfully, but that my keyboard had gone completely
> dead. I don't know why this happened, but it might have something to
> do with having a USB keyboard. Anyway, I couldn't run make
> installworld following this since the keyboard was no-go, so I was
> forced to hard-reboot.

If that is happening, then I would suspect you have hardware problems. 
The reasoning is that buildworld does not change your local environment 
and couldn't cause a hang. Everything that it builds goes 
into /usr/obj.

Now, Murphy likes to embarass me but that is my current $0.02 :).

Kent

>
> Not knowing a great deal about what make buildworld really does, I'm
> not sure if the changes it effects are persistent through a reboot.
> Do I need to run make buildworld again before running make
> installworld? I've skimmed the manpages on make, but they seem
> directed to the sort of people who want to create makefiles, rather
> than just run them, and I thought I could probably get the quick and
> dirty answer here without having to resort to three days of study :)
>
> Your help is appreciated
>
> Bnonn
>
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