Re: Error message while updating src for FreeBSD 9 current

From: Ralph Ellis <ralphellis1_at_netscape.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:21:43 -0400
Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 2010-09-23 04:29, Ralph Ellis wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I recently upgraded my FreeBSD 8.1 installation to FreeBSD 9 current via
>> buildworld and buildkernel. I was able to one general ports, src and doc
>> update by cvsup but now I am getting the following error message when I
>> do a src update.
>>
>>> cvsup srcsupfile
>>> Connected to cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
>>> Updating collection src-all/cvs
>>> Edit src/bin/ps/extern.h
>>> Illegal instruction
>>>
>> I am new to the mailing list. Is this a known error?
>> Is this an error to do with the source tree or an issue on my end?
>>
>> Just for reference, the contents of my supfile are
>>
>> *default tag=.
>> *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
>> *default prefix=/usr
>> *default base=/var/db
>> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
>> src-all
>> ports-all
>> doc-all
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your assistance,
>> Ralph Ellis
>> ralphellis1_at_netscape.ca
>>
>
> Are you using cvsup or csup? Have you recompiled cvsup in case you use 
> that? What's in your make.conf file?
> Illegal instruction is usually because the program is compiled for 
> another CPU than what it's running on. It can also be that syscalls 
> has changed, but then it usually complains about that.
> When doing a major version upgrade, you usually have to recompile all 
> ports.
> Hope this helps!
> //Niclas

I am using cvsup. I had recompiled my VirtualBox port but I had not 
finished recompiling the other major ports. Thanks for the suggestion.
My make.conf is deliberately very plain jane with no special conditions 
or comments.
Thanks
Ralph Ellis
ralphellis1_at_netscape.ca
Received on Thu Sep 23 2010 - 09:21:50 UTC

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