An upgrade that went wrong

[Business_Woman]

After upgrading from 7 to 8 I am greeted with the message

Could not determine audit condition

This is apparently a bug: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2009-May/035020.html

Anyway, I downloaded and burned the livecd to a ... cd. I mounted the broken file systems under /mnt and adjusted PATH accordingly. However nslookup is unable to look up the cvs servers, even if the binary is found I just get "server timeout"

Any idea?

 

[SirDice]

You'll probably need to set an IP address with ifconfig(8), a default gateway with route(8) and /etc/resolv.conf must contain a valid DNS server.

For example:

ifconfig rl0 192.168.1.44 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default 192.168.1.1
echo nameserver 192.168.1.1 > /etc/resolv.conf

Or if you have a DHCP server on the network you can use dhclient(8):
# dhclient rl0

 

[Business_Woman]

Ok, I solved this by creating a resolv.conf under /src. So I have downloaded all the sources for 8.2 to /mnt/usr/src.

In order to rebuild everything, is this simply a matter of linking /usr/src to /mnt/usr/src?

Or is there another way?

 

[SirDice]

It might even build from there but I've never tried to use an alternate location for the sources. Setting a symlink is probably the easiest solution.

 

[Business_Woman]

Or maybe i could just set $DESTDIR and $OBJDIR to point to the correct location, would that be enough?

 

[SirDice]

DESTDIR is probably needed because the real 'root' is mounted under /mnt/. OBJDIR shouldn't really matter but it does need a place to write and the livecd probably has a read-only /usr/.

 

[Business_Woman]

Ah, Success!

 

[SirDice]

Ah, Success!

:beer