make world fails in usr.sbin/config?

[Christer Solskogen]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 25/05/2010 11:40:23, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>> For the record: I'm now running -stable as of last night, compiled
>> without issue on ZFS filesystems throughout.  No idea what caused the
>> issue in the first place, and what made it disappear though, but
>> updating to the correctly built -stable made the build on ZFS work
>> again.  (It also involved an accidential upgrade and downgrade via
>> -current, since I checked out the wrong tag with csup.  Yikes.)
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> I've a new machine that's been running 8-STABLE on ZFS for about a week
> now.  Had no problems installing and then upgrading to recent 8-STABLE
> although I did start with installing an 8-STABLE snapshot rather than
> 8.0-RELEASE. (See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror)
>
> Verb. Sap.  If you're booting from ZFS, beware of updating the zpool
> version without due care and attention.  8.0-RELEASE was on version 13,
> 8-STABLE is now on version 14.  (Use 'zpool update' to see what the
> status is on your machine -- this just gives you a report, and doesn't
> update anything.)  Updating the zpool version is pretty smooth and
> simple, but *remember to immediately rebuild and reinstall gptzfsboot or
> zfsboot bootcode on your drives*.  If you don't do that, your system
> won't be able to find the pool with the root filesystem and so won't be
> able to reboot.
>
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Old thread, I know. But I encountered this error today and my solution
was that /tmp was tmpfs and it was full. Cleaning that up fixed the
error.


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chs,