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Re: Bad system call errors during an upgrade of -current



Another question is whether your kernel config contains compat glue for
old syscalls.

On 11.02.2020 02:07, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> Looking at my history, I did:
> 
> ./build.sh -O ../obj -T ../tools tools distribution kernel=MYCONFIG modules
> ./build.sh -O ../obj -T ../tools installmodules=/
> cp -p /netbsd /onetbsd
> cp /usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/MYCONFIG/netbsd /
> shutdown -r now
> 
> /stand still has modules for both versions listed.  Went go to install
> the new userland after the reboot and it never got that far since
> things started crashing.  Rebooting back into onetbsd seems to work,
> so I'm fairly certain that it didn't upgrade the userland yet, but
> I'll double check.
> 
> On a side note, it would be really nice if the modules stuff got added
> to https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-updating.html#updating-procedure
> so I don't have to keep referring to my old notes every time :)
> 
> -Dustin
> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:57 PM Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> On 11.02.2020 01:49, Dustin Marquess wrote:
>>> I'm trying to upgrade a VM from a 9.99.10 install that was built
>>> around Sep 2th to a 9.99.46 install compiled yesterday.
>>>
>>> I installed the new kernel and modules and rebooted into the new
>>> kernel / old userland.  Once done, almost everything crashes with Bad
>>> system call.  So far "su -", "ls" and even the configure instance the
>>> a build.sh install kicked off died with one.
>>>
>>> Is this a known issue?  I don't believe I missed a step in the upgrade
>>> instructions...
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Dustin
>>>
>>
>> Make sure that you upgraded your kernel and kernel modules before
>> installing new userland. The otherway around upgrade is not supported
>> and can break like it (there was an ABI change in struct statvfs).
>>


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