RE: Help saving my system

Actually, I think I did... mergemaster?

Maybe no one caught it and assumed it was just a ranting flame, But I 
imagine running mergemaster and making sure the system is synch'd would 
make a world of difference.

Just a token thought.


--On Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:52 PM -0700 Jason Dictos 
<jason.dictos_at_tapeware.com> wrote:

> Thanks scott, I'll try that out and let you know how it worked..
>
>
> Oh wait.. You didn't say anything helpful n/m
>
> -Jason
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:slikens_at_bsdwebsolutions.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:16 PM
> To: Jason Dictos; 'freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org'
>
> Okay, let's see here.
>
> First off you install FreeBSD 5.1, UFS2 possibly but I guess UFS1 since it
> booted 4.9
>
> Some stupid reason you downgraded to 4.9, didn't run mergemaster, so all
> your /etc files are out of whack, and now you're bitching that you're
> trying to do buildworld again, and getting errors.
>
> Amazing.
>
> Truly Amazing
>
> Comments anyone?
>
>
> --On Friday, October 17, 2003 10:53 PM -0700 Jason Dictos
> <jason.dictos_at_tapeware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys, here's the scenario:
>>
>> 1. Had FreeBSD 5.1 system running.
>> 2. Did a cvsup get of stable (that's right, stable, so 4.9) 3.
>> Compiled make buildworld, then did a make build world, and re-compiled
>> with generic kernel 4. Booted into a system which could not mount the
>> file system (expected since its 4.9)
>>
>> So now I am trying to save the system and here's where I've gotten to:
>>
>> 1. Booted disc 2 of 5.1 cd into "fixme" mode.
>> 2. Mounted live cdrom filesystem and then mounted my root drive to
>> /mnt 3. Did a chroot to /mnt so that I would emulate my live system
>> environment 4. Re-did a cvsup of the branch current.
>> 5. Ran make buildworld from /usr/src
>>
>> Here is what happens when I do that:
>>
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 156: warning:
>> "/usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make -f /dev/null -m /usr/src/share/mk
>> CPUTYPE=dummy -V CPUTYPE" returned non-zero status
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 158: CPUTYPE global should be set with ?=.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> -Jason
>>
>>
>>
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