mergemaster fails in single user mode

[Erik Norgaard]

Hi,

I just upgraded to -CURRENT (yesterdays). Everything goes well, I reboot
into single user mode, mount all partitions and run 'make installworld'

To finish the upgrade I run "mergemaster" still in single user mode, but
this fails with the following output:

# /usr/sbin/mergemaster

tput: no terminal type specified and no TERM environmental variable.
*** The directory specified for the temporary root environment,
    /var/tmp/temproot, exists.  This can be a security risk if untrusted
    users have access to the system.

  Use 'd' to delete the old /var/tmp/temproot and continue
  Use 't' to select a new temporary root directory
  Use 'e' to exit mergemaster

  Default is to use /var/tmp/temproot as is

How should I deal with this? [Use the existing /var/tmp/temproot]

   *** Leaving /var/tmp/temproot intact

*** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot
 *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use
 *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot

mtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /var/tmp/temproot/
mtree:No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/etc.

  *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to
      the temproot environment

#
Script done on Tue Nov  2 12:08:40 2004

Rebooting into normal multi-user mode, I have no problem running the
script.

Should I simply not run mergemaster in single user mode? (Anyway, I
believe the error to be odd).

Cheers, Erik

PS: I have had this error before, in june and september with -CURRENT.

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