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

[Dustin Marquess <dmarquess%gmail.com@localhost>]

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).
>