Trying to update from 9.0 to 9.1 via svn

Helmut Schneider jumper99 at gmx.de
Fri Jan 4 16:24:51 UTC 2013


Trond Endrestøl wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:51-0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Alexandre wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I fetched sources via
> > > > 
> > > > $ sudo svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src/
> > > > Checked out revision 244992.
> > > > $
> > > > 
> > > > I then recompiled and installed the kernel according to
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> >
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
> > > > 
> > > > $ ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
> > > > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15622342 Jan  3 19:57
> > > > /boot/kernel/kernel $
> > > > 
> > > > But after reboot uname prints
> > > > 
> > > > FreeBSD BSDHelmut964 9.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p5 #9
> > > > r244992M:  Thu Jan  3 19:57:37 CET 2013
> > > > root at BSDHelmut964:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > > > 
> > > > Why?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks, Helmut
> > > 
> > > Have you rebuilt world before compile and install your new 9.1
> > > kernel ?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> I have a question:
> 
> Was /usr/src populated with 9.0 sources prior to the svn operation?
> 
> If you have the time and bandwidth, I would delete everything inside 
> /usr/src, e.g.
> 
>   rm -Rf /usr/src/* /usr/src/.??*
> 
> and retry the checkout, i.e.
> 
> sudo svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src

Did so, too. It's so frustrating, I mean, I compile kernel and world
since 6.0 and never had similar issues. What makes me a bit nervous is
that this happens on two different machines. And why is the revision
(r244992) of the kernel ident higher than the release revision
(r243710[1])?

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