freebsd-update crash then grep and ranlib missing

[mecano]

Hello,

I just did a freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade from 7.4p11, set kernel to GENERIC, then boot in single user mode (host company rescue mode);

FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Feb 18 01:55:22 UTC 2011

then mount all my partitions and chroot to it, then launch freebsd-update install.
I then got

Installing updates...Bad system call (core dumped)

with lots of

Bad system call (core dumped)

I escaped tried to reboot, system won't boot, reboot in single user mode tried to run freebsd-update install and got

id: not found
[: !=: unexpected operator
sha256: not found
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.

Tried a freebsd-install fetch:

grep: not found
freebsd-update: Invalid key fingerprint: xxx

(<<truncated fingerprint number)

I couldn't use freebsd-update rollback
Tried to cd /usr/src && make buildworld and got a

mkdep -f .depend -a    -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include /usr/src/tools/build/dummy.c
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -c /usr/src/tools/build/dummy.c
building static egacy library
ranlib libegacy.a
ranlib:No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/tools/build.
*** Error code 1

Help!

 

[mecano]

Still trying to recover, I edited /usr/local/etc/cvsup/standard-supfile to get consistency in /usr/src/
/usr/local/bin/vim /usr/local/etc/cvsup/standard-supfile
changed

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_1

to

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_3

then did
csup /usr/local/etc/cvsup/standard-supfile && cd /usr/src && make buildworld
still no go :/

Any chance to recover from this?

 

[mecano]

make cleanworld && make cleandir doesn't help still

ranlib:No such file or directory

whereis ranlib

ranlib: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib

set path= ( $path /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils )
echo $path

/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /root/bin /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils

/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib

/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib: Permission denied.

make cleanworld && make cleandir
make buildworld

rm -f .depend
mkdep -f .depend -a    -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include /usr/src/tools/build/dummy.c
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe   -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -c /usr/src/tools/build/dummy.c
building static egacy library
ranlib libegacy.a
ranlib:No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/tools/build.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.

 

[mecano]

ls -la /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib

total 6
Bad system call (core dumped)

ls /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib

Makefile

cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/ && make

Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -DBFD_DEFAULT_TARGET_SIZE=64 -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbinutils -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/bfd -Wsystem-headers -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-pointer-sign -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils/ar.c
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -DBFD_DEFAULT_TARGET_SIZE=64 -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbinutils -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/bfd -Wsystem-headers -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-pointer-sign -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils/is-ranlib.c
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -DBFD_DEFAULT_TARGET_SIZE=64 -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../libbinutils -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib/../../../../contrib/binutils/bfd -Wsystem-headers -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-pointer-sign  -static -o ranlib ar.o is-ranlib.o ../libbinutils/libbinutils.a ../libbfd/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a
cc: ../libbinutils/libbinutils.a: No such file or directory
cc: ../libbfd/libbfd.a: No such file or directory
cc: ../libiberty/libiberty.a: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib.

Indeed.

 

[mecano]

find / -name libbinutils

/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils

cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils && ls

Makefile	config.h

make

Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils
lex -t  /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutils/arlex.l > arlex.c
lex: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbinutils.

find / -name lex

/usr/src/contrib/file/Magdir/lex
/usr/src/usr.bin/lex

cd /usr/src/usr.bin/lex && make

Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/usr.bin/lex
lex -t  -is scan.l > scan.c
lex: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/lex.

looped

 

[mecano]

Out of the blue
nextboot -k GENERIC
reboot

reboot: Command not found.

shutdown -r now

shutdown: Command not found.

exit
reboot

Guess it will not come back, but let's try.

 

[mecano]

Back to single user mode, can't I get ranlib, sha256 and others through network, sysinstall looks like it is working, should I try it?

[edit] or buildworld from safe boot then chroot to install? One problem though is that /usr/obj is read only :/ How to tell make buildword to use another obj folder?

 

[mecano]

I'll just copy over missing bins and rebuild based on RELENG_7_4, I must have skipped some ports update for freebsd-update to behave strangely.

 

[mecano]

With RELENG_7_4 /usr/src cleaned

mkdep -f .depend -a    -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include /usr/src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c
echo makewhatis: /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/lib/libegacy.a >> .depend
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c
/usr/src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c: In function 'process_mandir':
/usr/src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c:911: warning: passing argument 3 of 'scandir' from incompatible pointer type
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include  -static -L/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/lib -o makewhatis makewhatis.o -lz -legacy
sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh -s -o root -g wheel -m 555   makewhatis /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin
sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh -o root  -g wheel -m 555  /usr/src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.sh  /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local
/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/libexec/catman.local -> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local
Bad system call (core dumped)
*** Error code 140

Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/makewhatis.
*** Error code 1

Thanks for your help.

 

[mecano]

Ok, after a major cp of libraries and binaries, it's in the process of building world, finger crossed, sorry for the noise.

Looks like there was something weird with M4.