Re: sort.core error doing installworld on Current.

> > 
> > Op 17-04-2020 om 03:31 schreef Rodney W. Grimes:
> > >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:39 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> So you some how had a sort core dump sitting in
> > >>> /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/share/zoneinfo/builddir. The questions, how
> > >>> did get there? I'd take a look at the date on the file and, it it is older
> > >>> than the buildworld, just assume that it was left-over garbage. In either
> > >>> case, you can delete it and do another installworld.
> > >>>
> > >>> That should most likely fix things, but, if the buildworld or installworld
> > >>> had a crash of sort(1) that left the file, further investigation might be
> > >>> needed. Re-making the zoneinfo would help track it down should this be a re
> > >>> al bug, but it's my uneducated guess that it's not.
> > >>> --
> > >>> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> > >>> E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com
> > >>> PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
> > >>>
> > >> Please forgive that awful post! I missed a part of your message by laziness.
> > >>
> > >> It's odd that the error of sort(1) crashing was not caught by the script.
> > > Yes, that is a Makefile flaw someplace.
> > > Further there must be a wildcard being used to decide which files to
> > > install, that is a further Makefile flaw.  Wildcards should NOT be used
> > > in the source of an install list, exactly because of this type of cruft
> > > that can be dropped in an obj dir.

>From src/share/zoneinfo/Makefile at about line 93:
92  if make(*install*)
93  TZS!= cd ${TZBUILDDIR} && find * -type f | LC_ALL=C sort
                                 ^^^^ this is a very bad thing to do in a Makefile.

94  .endif

Now I still don't know why sort cored, but I am sure this is the line that did it.

> > >
> > >> Clearly, sort should NOT crash! Again, a re-build of zoneinfo might catch
> > >> something. Looking at the core might tell you which "sort" was involved...
> > >> the one you just built or the one in the base system. This could be just a
> > >> FOTU, but I would not bet on it.
> > > I suspect a recent zoneinfo commit as the root cause.
> > >
> > I have no idea how to bypass this issue.
> > I have used sort from the latest snapshot and placed that file on the 
> > system and in the build dir, but i keep getting the core
> > 
> > How can i test an build and install part for zoneinfo
> > 
> > If i go into the dir /usr/src/share/zoneinfo and do make install it does 
> > not work, do i need to add something?
> 
> Can you show us the output from
> cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
> make clean && make depend && make all && make install
> Someplace in that we should get to see sort crashing...
> 
> > 
> > Thank you both for your time
> > 
> > >> --
> > >> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> > >> E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com
> > >> PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:49 AM Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks_at_gmail.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I have a machine running FreeBSD head.
> > >>>> rev 13.0-CURRENT #11 r360008
> > >>>>
> > >>>> This is a quite powerful machine, so i thought it was a good idea to let
> > >>>> that server do the build and for my virtualbox machine i can use the
> > >>>> powerful machine to do a installword over NFS.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> But when i did the make installworld step the client so to say gives an
> > >>>> error.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> install   -o root -g wheel -m 444
> > >>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/share/zoneinfo/builddir/Zulu
> > >>>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Zulu
> > >>>> install   -o root -g wheel -m 444
> > >>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/share/zoneinfo/builddir/posixrules
> > >>>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules
> > >>>> install   -o root -g wheel -m 444
> > >>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/share/zoneinfo/builddir/sort.core
> > >>>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/sort.core
> > >>>> install: /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/share/zoneinfo/builddir/sort.core:
> > >>>> Permission denied
> > >>>> *** Error code 71
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Stop.
> > >>>> bmake[5]: stopped in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
> > >>>> *** Error code 1
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Stop.
> > >>>> bmake[4]: stopped in /usr/src/share
> > >>>> *** Error code 1
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Stop.
> > >>>> bmake[3]: stopped in /usr/src
> > >>>> *** Error code 1
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Stop.
> > >>>> bmake[2]: stopped in /usr/src
> > >>>> *** Error code 1
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Stop.
> > >>>> bmake[1]: stopped in /usr/src
> > >>>> *** Error code 1
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Stop.
> > >>>> make: stopped in /usr/src
> > >>>> .ERROR_TARGET='installworld'
> > >>>> .ERROR_META_FILE=''
> > >>>> .MAKE.LEVEL='0'
> > >>>> MAKEFILE=''
> > >>>> .MAKE.MODE='normal'
> > >>>> _ERROR_CMD='.PHONY'
> > >>>> .CURDIR='/usr/src'
> > >>>> .MAKE='make'
> > >>>> .OBJDIR='/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64'
> > >>>> .TARGETS='installworld'
> > >>>> DESTDIR=''
> > >>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=''
> > >>>> MACHINE='amd64'
> > >>>> MACHINE_ARCH='amd64'
> > >>>> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX='/usr/obj'
> > >>>> MAKESYSPATH='/usr/src/share/mk'
> > >>>> MAKE_VERSION='20181221'
> > >>>> PATH='/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin'
> > >>>> SRCTOP='/usr/src'
> > >>>> OBJTOP='/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64'
> > >>>>
> > >>>> It looks likes sort coredumps in the usr/share/zoneinfo part of the base.
> > >>>> As it has no permission on the NFS share it errors out.
> > >>>> On the server itself, the installworld goes well, but it leaves a
> > >>>> sort.core file behind in /usr/share/zoneinfo
> > >>>>
> > >>>> cd /usr/share/zoneinfo
> > >>>> ls -al
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes_at_freebsd.org