from 5.4-PRERELEASE -> 5.3-RELEASE-p5 error?

[Jon Noack]

Bashar wrote:
> Doug White wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Bashar wrote:
>>> Doug White wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Bashar wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> i was wondering just right after the downgrade been facing some issues
>>>>> such as:
>>>>> 1. server# /usr/local/bin/strace -f ps
>>>>> PIOCSFL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>>> trouble opening proc file
>>>>> 2. mounting ext2fs partition doesn't work unless i specify -ro or it
>>>>> will give operation not permitted.
>>>>>
>>>>> any idea what might be causing this?
>>>>
>>>> How did you perform the downgrade? The strace error looks like you're
>>>> still running the 5.3-STABLE binary.
>>>
>>> first i ran RELENG_5 and when i got the 5.4-PRERELEASE (which
>>> incompatible with cPanel.net software) i had to run cvsup with 
>>> RELENG_5_3
>>> after than i started getting those errors
>>
>> You're leaving out important details, like what you did after you 
>> cvsup'd.
>
> the usual ,cvsup'ed then cd /usr/src && make buildworld && make 
> installworld && cd /sys/i386/conf && config mykernel && cd 
> ../compile/mykernel && make depend && make && make install && reboot

This is the usual?  You should read 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html#AEN27432 
and /usr/src/UPDATING.

The Canonical Way to Update Your System (for 5.x):
1) make buildworld
2) make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
3) make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
4) <reboot in single user>
5) /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom
6) mergemaster -p
7) make installworld
8) mergemaster
9) <reboot>

Jon