Yes -- there was a temporary switch from gnu awk to the one-true-awk,
which was backed out a few days later due to problems such as this.
Upgrading should fix the problem (note that you might need to build and
install the loader a second time, if your awk before buildworld is not gnu
awk).
Rober
Thanks Robert. So it was the awk that David O'Brien imported and
then backed out that was causing it. I'm still on the October 26, 2001
current and seem to be using gnu awk.
Cheers,
Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vice President __
Unix Networking Operations - F
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Falco Krepel wrote:
> Yes, Robert wrote:
>
> >Looks like it was a delayed affect of the awk change; recovering via
> >/boot/loader.old and rebuilding and installing src/sys seemed to get
> >things under control.
>
> This solve the problem.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Vince - [
Yes, Robert wrote:
>Looks like it was a delayed affect of the awk change; recovering via
>/boot/loader.old and rebuilding and installing src/sys seemed to get
>things under control.
This solve the problem.
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Has this problem actually been fixed yet since I never saw any
followups to this thread?
Cheers,
Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vice President __
Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ]
WurldLink Corporation
So I'm not the only one having problems. . .
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
([EMAIL PROTECTED], Fri Nov 9 01:58:33 PST 2001)
name not found
Assert failed: (false), function ficlCompileSoftcore, file softcore.c,
line 291
I got the system running by:
booting up with a set of 'fixi
Looks like it was a delayed affect of the awk change; recovering via
/boot/loader.old and rebuilding and installing src/sys seemed to get
things under control.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
[EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
On Fri, 9
Upgraded a box to yesterday's -CURRENT, and am experiencing two problems:
(1) the machine spins rebooting after loading /boot/loader. I don't get a
chance to interupt the boot once /boot/loader starts. Unfortunately, my
serial console support also seems to be broken, so I can't read the error
