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List:       openbsd-newbies
Subject:    Re: svscanboot core dumps on 4.3
From:       soc () visca ! com
Date:       2008-11-09 12:54:46
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.2.20081109120220.01f8ea80 () 69 ! 94 ! 110 ! 70
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At 20:21 08/11/08 +0100, Peter Hessler wrote:
>Its stongly recommended that you use bsd.rd, and choose "Upgrade",
>rather than untaring the files manually.  That'll handle much of the
>magic for you.

Unfortunately I don't have physical access to the machine.  Perhaps I 
should have mentioned as well that I have been doing updates since 2.8 
and have never had a similar problem.

>Additionally, 4.4 is out and has many improvements over
>4.3.  One nice tool is 'sysmerge'', which will handle updating your
>config files.

AFAIK there are no config files for daemontools.


>Have you tried rebuilding the djb binaries?

Just did this.  No joy.

I have just very carefully upgraded to 4.4 but the problem persists.

Thanks for your comments.


>On 2008 Nov 08 (Sat) at 18:13:33 +0100 (+0100), soc@visca.com wrote:
>:Greetings:
>:
>:Today I updated 4.2 to 4.3 (details below).  I'm using djb's
>:daemontools which I start from rc.local with the command
>:'/command/svscanboot &'.  The problem is that, rebooting after the
>:update, svscanboot dumps core (the coredump is at
>:http://visca.com/svscan.core.txt). My dmesg is at
>:http://visca.com/dmesg.txt.
>:
>:Any help would be appreciated.
>:
>:Lou
>:
>:PS - My update procedure was straight from the FAQ:
>:
>:rm /obsd ; ln /bsd /obsd && cp bsd /nbsd && mv /nbsd /bsd
>:cp bsd.rd bsd.mp /
>:cd /
>:tar -C / -xzphf /usr/src/base43.tgz ./etc/firmware
>:tar -C / -xzphf /usr/src/base43.tgz ./sbin/ifconfig
>:shutdown -r now
>:cd /usr/src/
>:tar -C / -xzphf base43.tgz
>:tar -C / -xzphf comp43.tgz
>:tar -C / -xzphf man43.tgz
>:tar -C / -xzphf misc43.tgz
>:tar -C / -xzphf xbase43.tgz
>:chmod u+s /usr/sbin/suexec
>:cd /usr/src/etc
>:tar -xzphf etc43.tgz
>:cp -Rf a* bgpd.conf c* /etc
>:cp -Rf d* exports gettytab hotplug/ i* k* magic moduli motd
>:mrouted.conf mtree/ /etc
>:cp -Rf n* ospfd.conf phones  portal.conf ppp/ pr* rbootd.conf /etc
>:cp -Rf rc rc.conf rc.securelevel rc.shutdown remote ripd.conf rpc
>:sasyncd.conf se* /etc
>:cp -Rf sliphome/ snmpd.conf ssh/ ssl/ sudoers systrace/ ttys
>:wsconsctl.conf /etc
>:cp -Rf sysctl.conf /etc/
>:cd /dev
>:./MAKEDEV all
>:useradd -u90 -g=uid -c"OSPF6 Daemon" -d/var/empty -s/sbin/nologin
>:_ospf6d
>:useradd -u91 -g=uid -c"SNMP Daemon" -d/var/empty -s/sbin/nologin 
>_snmpd
>:vipw
>:emacs /etc/group
>:rm /etc/hoststated.conf /var/named/standard/root.hint
>:newaliases
>:mtree -qdef /etc/mtree/4.4BSD.dist -p / -u
>:chown root:operator /etc/chio.conf
>:chmod 644 /etc/chio.conf
>:shutdown -r now
>:
>:
>:--
>:All the best (Adéu-siau),
>:Lou Hevly
>:soc@visca.com
>:http://visca.com
>:
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>
>--
>Q:  How many right-to-lifers does it take to change a light bulb?
>A:  Two.  One to screw it in and one to say that light started when 
>the
>     screwing began.

-- 
All the best (Adéu-siau),
Lou Hevly
soc@visca.com
http://visca.com

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