safe and sane way to 6?

[Andrew P.]

On 11/16/05, Jeff D. Hamann <jeff.hamann at forestinformatics.com> wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD 6BETA4 a few months ago and have been waiting until
> the first release (non-beta) came out to get the machine moving. I went to
> upgrade my system by performing a cvsup after setting the cvsupfile to the
> following:
>
> *default host=cvsup18.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs
> *default tag=RELENG_6_0
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all
> ports-all
> doc-all
> www
> cvsroot-all
>
> I then tried to run a make buildworld and got the following error message:
>
> mkmagic: could not find any magic files!
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src/lib/libmagic.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src/lib.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> bobby#
> bobby#
>
> Now what? Would it be smarter to simply install a clean version of FreeBSD
> 6.0? or can I upgrade without having to go through all that again?

This question probably belongs to questions at .

This might solve your problem:

1. Try another cvsup server
2. Change your tag to RELENG_6_0
3. Remove the contents of /usr/src and /usr/obj - and cvsup again

Good luck!