Problems with upgrading 5.4 stable to 6.0 stable

[Chris]

Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Albert Shih wrote:
> 
>> Le 06/11/2005 à 13:28:23-0500, Alan Polinsky a écrit
>>
>>> I have been having repeated difficulties in upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0.
>>> My problems start in the make buildworld step. The last successful
>>> compile step is:
>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/libipf created for ./usr/src/sbin/ipf/libipf
>>>
>>>> From that point I get a series of cascading errors. I tried ignoring
>>>
>>> them, but could not successfully build the kernel. I have looked through
>>> documentation at your site, but could not find a resolulution.
>>>
>>> This is my only exposure to freebsd. I have several linux boxes at home
>>> that I use with no problems. At work I am a unix (Solaris 8) and
>>> application programmer under windows.
>>>
>>> These are the cascading errors:
>>>
>>> ===> sbin/ipf/ipf(obj) mkdir; /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: file exists
>>> *** Error code 1
>>> stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>> stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf
>>> *** Error code 1
>>> stop in /usr/src/sbin
>>> ** Error code 1
>>> stop in /usr/src.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>> stop in /usr/src
>>
>>
>> Very easy to solve
>>
>>     cd /usr
>>     rm -rf obj
> 
> 
> Sounds close, but you don't want/need to remove the /usr/obj directory,
> just everything in it:
> 
>       # cd /usr/obj
>       # chflags -R noschg *
>       # rm -rf *
> 

AND - the sad thing is, the above is verbatim from the FreeBSD site.
Users - PLEASE READ at least 2 times before doing....

You were given a brain, use it!


-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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