Uname borked on ??-Release...
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 4 19:09:56 UTC 2008
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>> I get the following from uname -a:
>>>>>
>>>>> FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6:
>>>>> Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 root at archangel.daleco.biz:
>>>>> /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I rebuilt world, more or less without issues,
>>>>> twice in February with "RELENG_6" in the supfile. This
>>>>> didn't change uname's output, and that worried me a bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, to make matters bette^H^H^H^Hadder, I csup'ped
>>>>> to RELENG_7_0 the day after it was released, read
>>>>> /usr/src/UPDATING, and the webpage detailing the
>>>>> upgrade, and did another buildworld/kernel cycle.
>>>>> Now I have no idea if I'm on 6 or 7 (seems like
>>>>> 7, but many ports issues, and I've rebuilt them
>>>>> all), and it's just becoming a major PITA.
>>>>
>>>> You didnt succeed in installing the new kernel. 'make
>>>> installkernel' is the step in which this occurs.
>>>>
>>> Thank you and Phillip for answering my post. However,
>>> I've done this 3 times now, and I don't skip that step.
>>> There have been no errors in the process, either.
>>>
>>> I've rebooted the system, and I'm still being told I'm running
>>> 6.2 by uname. In addition, pkg_add thinks I should be looking
>>> for 6-latest packages instead of 7, and the list of annoyances
>>> continues. And, "hmm", symbols? I'm guessing that knob is ON
>>> in FBSD7? Once again, proof that something's wrong, as I didn't
>>> build debugging kernels in FBSD6 ... so I'm thinking this is
>>> a 7 kernel? It just doesn't make sense to me.
>>>
>>> It *is* a Monday, after all. If installkernel didn't succeed,
>>> shouldn't there be any other evidence? Could skipping a mergemaster
>>> at some point have this effect?
>>
>> Possibly you have 6.x sources still. Or you are not actually booting
>> /boot/kernel/kernel but some other kernel. Check sysctl
>> kern.bootfile. You can also do
>>
>> strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep 7.0-RELEASE
>>
>> to verify the kernel version string.
>
> #sysctl kern.bootfile
> kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> #strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep 0-RELEASE
> @(#)FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 12:22:38 CST 2008
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 12:22:38 CST 2008
> 7.0-RELEASE
>
> #ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9294687 Feb 28 12:22 /boot/kernel/kernel*
>
> Well, fudging around with uname's source shows that it's basically
> calling some sysctls, so maybe the question
> is, with what I have above, why do I still have:
>
> sysctl -a | grep kern.osre
> kern.osrelease: 6.2-RELEASE
> kern.osrevision: 199506
> kern.osreldate: 602000
>
> ??
What about strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep 6.2-RELEASE
?
Kris
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