Niclas Zeising wrote:
On 2010-09-23 14:02, Bartosz Stec wrote:
On 2010-09-23 13:36, Niclas Zeising wrote:
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
ralphell...@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
ralphell...@netscape.ca
Try to recompile everything, or at least cvsup, and see if it works.
//Niclas
Niclas, did you perform 'make delete-old && make delete-old-libs' after
upgrade to CURRENT? If you did, many of your ports won't longer work
properly (or at all) because of missing libraries. If you didn't, you
definitely should do something like 'portupgrade -afrRi' and after you
done, you can get rid of these old files with commands above.
You wouldn't get illegal instruction then though. Usually the
application fails to load if dynamic libraries are missing.
Of course it could take VERY long time depending on installed ports and
machine spec., so if you just need to get your sources updated quickly I
recommend:
1. Try csup instead of cvsup. It's integrated in both 8.x and in
CURRENT, so should work "out of the box"
That's a good idea.
2. If you (for some strange reasons) want to stick to cvsup, you'll
probably make it work again by portupgrade -fR 'cvsup*'
3. another approach is to get cvsup binaries from package instead of
compiling ports - check man pkg_add
4. If you need cvsup to update ports tree, try portsnap instead. It's
faster and smarter, and integrated with system :) - check man portsnap
Good luck!
//Niclas
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Thanks for all the helpful suggestions.
csup worked like a charm and solved the problem. I will be rebuilding
my ports gradually, starting with the development ports like Perl, gcc,
clang etc.
I am also experimenting with a custom kernel where I am eliminating
drivers and modules for isa, wireless devices and hardware only found on
laptops. The early results are encouraging. I run fold...@home in a
VirtualBox with Unbuntu x64 as a guest OS. Since trying a custom kernel,
floating point performance has improved over 20%. This may also be due
to some kernel improvements in FreeBSD 9. So far I am very impressed
with the stability of the OS. I have not had problems with any of the
programs that I run on a regular basis. I had expected to hit more bugs.
I will get started on the rebuilds but with 1700 ports installed, I will
wait for a free weekend to compile the big stuff.
Thanks again
Ralph Ellis
ralphell...@netscape.ca
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