[SPAM] Re: Error message while updating src for FreeBSD 9 current

From: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:36:06 +0200
On 2010-09-23 13:21, Ralph Ellis wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Try to recompile everything, or at least cvsup, and see if it works.
//Niclas
Received on Thu Sep 23 2010 - 09:36:15 UTC

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