On Thursday 13 March 2008 00:16, Thorsten Hirsch wrote: > Hi, > > today I wanted to update the busybox version on my nas device, which > is a mips platform. The old version was 1.4.1 (dynamically linked) and > I did a backup of the executable file /bin/busybox. > > I downloaded version 1.9.1, applied the one available patch, did a > "make menuconfig" and kept all default settings except for > "disable /usr", which was deactivated, but since my executable did not > reside in /usr/bin, but in /bin, I thought it would be a good idea to > tell busybox, that /usr shall not be used. > > The compilation worked fine, I did a "make install" and overwrote the > old /bin/busybox with the new busybox binary. To check if it works, I > just called "busybox --help", which worked fine, showing me the new > version string. Great! Then I did a reboot and that was the last time, > I've seen the prompt of my nas device. :-(
Horror. Difficult to say what went wrong. I do not run "make install" at all, I just copy busybox binary over old one (backing old one up if necessary). I also have a shell script which makes symlinks to busybox. It learns names of available applets by running busybox without arguments. If you will eventually find out what happened, let list know. If it's a bug in "make install", I would want it fixed! -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
