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upgrade installworld error
Hello, i am in process of upgrading server from 6.2 to 6.3 and get error when doing
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any ideas? Is it safe to continue? many thanks |
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Just wondering if this because i have rc.conf entry
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Ok i have searched for ref to error
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Hello and thanks for reply, is it possible to turn it off without reboot and do make installworld again?
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Umm ok looks like i am going to have to risk a reboot and hope it come back up, if not it is a trip to hosters
One more question, from your post it looks like on reboot i would have to run 'make installworld' again? If is does not respond remotely then i take when i get access to it i will need to boot into single mode and do from there. many thanks |
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If everything leading up to 'make installworld' went fine (did 'make installkernel' actually work?), just continue where you left off, i.e. run 'make installworld' again. In fact, though I hardly ever take the effort to drop into single-user mode, that's where you really should be doing it. If you look at /usr/src/Makefile, you will notice that you're supposed to reboot into single-user mode after installing the new kernel, followed by mergemaster -p and make installworld, etc.
To be on the safe side, I would start over again after rebooting without a securelevel. Just clear /usr/obj and work off the list in /usr/src/Makefile. You may get away with just running 'make installworld', but that depends on how much risk you want to take. Installing a new world without an updated kernel can be fatal. |
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yep kernel all went fine, so i will just try running
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Trouble with single mode is it is not possible on remote server, well if it is i never found out how. I will do a reboot in the morning and see what occurs. many thanks |
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Please reverse the order to mergemaster -p and make installworld Frankly, if you made it to make installworld, you probably either already did mergemaster -p or you didn't need to because there were no new system accounts/groups that needed adding. Anyway, don't forget to run everything after that make installworld, esp. mergemaster (-U|-ai).
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Ok did a reboot this morning and with great relief the server came back on line
It reported system as being 6.3. I did: Quote:
Looks like everything has gone ok ! A question about mergemaster, with -p option it asks about /tmp/temproot i accept default which is to keep, after i run it with -viU option at the end it again asked if /tmp/temproot should be deleted! I still have couple of file that i need to go through by hand so did not, i take this should be deleted when i have sorted those out? cheers |
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Not deleting temproot just saves a little bit of time when you run mergemaster again. If you delete it, mergemaster will simply repopulate it. I usually just delete temproot after mergemaster -p and mergemaster -U/ai/whatever. It is advisable to 'finish' mergemaster before csupping again.
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