Re: Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

2011-01-31 Thread David Brodbeck
I ran into a similar issue upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3. Here's the thread where I worked it out; it might be helpful in your case: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html My eventual solution was here, if you don't want to read through the whole thread:

Re: Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

2011-01-31 Thread Keith Seyffarth
David, I ran into a similar issue upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3. Here's the thread where I worked it out; it might be helpful in your case: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html My eventual solution was here, if you don't want to read through the whole

Re: Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

2011-01-31 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
For me I used a quick and dirty solution for upgrade 1) build a machine (or a virtual one...) with the freebsd version you want, for example=8.2 cvsup the kernel in /usr/src 2) export KERNCONF=xx the name of the kernel config file you want to build 3) cd /usr/src;make buildworld buildkernel 4)

Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

2011-01-26 Thread Keith Seyffarth
I recently was having problems with Firefox crashing, which appear to be related to a requirement for semaphore support for Firefox after the upgrade to the new version of GTK. Anyway, this left me with a 7.4 kernel and a 7.2 world. Which I understand is supposed to work. However, this broke