Wrecked kernel

Jonathan Engwall engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 19:05:48 PDT 2020


Static libraries disappear for no reason
ldconfig -i/usr/local/lib recovers them, though it must be run repeatedly.
After that I wrenched X in semi working order, without a fully functioning
window manager. Screen and mouse check!
It is enough work to make me reinstall.
How is the 5.8.1 installation process, honestly?
Jonathan Engwall

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 12:00 PM <users-request at dragonflybsd.org> wrote:

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> New problems have begun.
> In the build world of 5_8_1 I am stuck at something that looks like this,
> if you can forgive my cellphone-only state:
> --- libgreputils.a---
> building static greputils library
> rm -f libgreputils.a
> ar can libgreputils.a 'lorder argmatch.o c-strcasecmp.o ...
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> Many .o files follow after that specific line ends, I have this:
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> /usr/libexec/binutils227/elf/nm: 'a file or another.o' : No such file
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> I did check, nm is an executable. Currently I cannot make symlinks either.
> What might be my trouble?
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> How can I figure out what is going on?
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> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:07:07 -0700
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> After replacing files from my partial backup X11 is acting strangely.
>
> Cannot open log file "/root/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log"
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> The log file is alive and well where it has always been in
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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> There is mention of this on the internet, mostly on ArchLinux, nothing
> useful however.
>
> Another problem, if I compile kernel 5.8 can I get updates?
>
> Or is it so that I need to buildworld...because that was looking bad...but
> if I could get updates maybe it would help.
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> Thank you anyone at all for any help
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> Jonathan Engwall
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> > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:31:19 -0700
> > From: Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>
> > To: Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>
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> > Things look the way they should, that is bad. It means I have no idea
> what
> > was going on last night.
> > I am trying to copy over the entire boot directory.
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> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 11:50 AM Jonathan Engwall <
> > engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > It was trouble with rufus. Swapping in a 5.6.2 kernel should work I
> > think.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 11:12 AM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Not enough info to really help you here.   Try going into the BIOS
> > >> (usually the F2 or DEL key in early boot) and check the boot order, it
> > >> might be trying to boot from internal storage first and USB second and
> > >> needs to be switched around.
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> > >> -Matt
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> > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:52:37 -0700
> > From: Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>
> > To: Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>
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> > Got out of it. I had a rogue character in the kernel. Stay out of
> > /boot/kernel/kernel!
> > Ot is a death trap!
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> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 12:31 PM Jonathan Engwall <
> > engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Things look the way they should, that is bad. It means I have no idea
> > what
> > > was going on last night.
> > > I am trying to copy over the entire boot directory.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 11:50 AM Jonathan Engwall <
> > > engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> It was trouble with rufus. Swapping in a 5.6.2 kernel should work I
> > think.
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 11:12 AM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Not enough info to really help you here.   Try going into the BIOS
> > >>> (usually the F2 or DEL key in early boot) and check the boot order,
> it
> > >>> might be trying to boot from internal storage first and USB second
> and
> > >>> needs to be switched around.
> > >>>
> > >>> -Matt
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> > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:17:02 -0700
> > From: Tim Darby <t at timdarby.net>
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> > Subject: Finding visually similiar images
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> > Does anyone know of a BSD equivalent for the linux app findimagedupes? I
> > want to be able to scan folders of images files looking for duplicate
> > images, not files.
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> > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:35:50 +0200
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> > I would recommend DupeGuru
> > https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/help/en/scan.html#picture-blocks
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> > Le lun. 15 juin 2020 ? 02:17, Tim Darby <t at timdarby.net> a ?crit :
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> > > Does anyone know of a BSD equivalent for the linux app findimagedupes?
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