GENERIC make buildkernel error / fails - posix_fadvise

[Rob Clark]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:37:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 02:24:41AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:15:50 -0500
> > John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:11:10 pm Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > System: Dell 600sc
> > > > Currently running: 8.2-RELEASE
> > > > 
> > > > In attempting to update this system to 8-STABLE I did
> > > > what I usually do to update a system (see below).
> > > > make buildworld completes successfully, but make
> > > > buildkernel does not. I usually create a custom
> > > > kernel, but for this system I went with GENERIC as
> > > > is.  
> > > > 
> > > > The error message is: 
> > > > /usr/src/sys/kern/init_sysent.c:568: error: invalid
> > > > application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct
> > > > posix_fadvise_args' /usr/src/sys/kern/init_sysent.c:568:
> > > > error: 'posix_fadvise' undeclared here (not in a
> > > > function) *** Error code 1
> > > 
> > > This sounds like you have an incomplete tree that only got part of a change 
> > > (specifically, /usr/src/sys/sys/sysproto.h seems stale).  Have you tried a 
> > > different cvsup mirror?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > John Baldwin
> > 
> > Sorry for the late follow-up, just got the system
> > up and running yesterday.  It appears that choosing a
> > different mirror did the trick. 
> 
> Can you please disclose what cvsup mirror you were using?  This kind of
> problem may be affecting other people, so you may want to report it to
> freebsd-hubs at freebsd.org to make the maintainer of the mirror aware.
> 
> Otherwise, ""corruption"" (for lack of better term) between what's in
> /var/db/sup and what's on your filesystem is something I've seen before,
> particularly when changing release tags in a supfile.
> 

> | Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |

Absolutely, the mirror initially used when I
received the error (see above) during "buildkernel"
was: cvsup17.FreeBSD.org

Using cvsup11.FreeBSD.org I had no issues.  Of course,
I am not saying that cvsup17 was at fault here, just
that buildkernel worked following a csup with cvsup11
(in my case anyway).

-- 
Rob Clark <rpclark at tds.net>


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