6.1_RELEASE / mergemaster error

[bc]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Bryan Curl <bc3910 at pcisys.net> writes:
>
>   
>> I humbly apologize if this is a repost. Googles Gmail has been very 
>> unpredictable lately, so in frustration I am resending this from my ol' 
>> faithful ISP mailbox since last nights post never seemed to make it to 
>> the list.
>>
>> I am upgrading from 6.1_RC (something like that) to 6.1_RELEASE using 
>> CVSUp &  RELENG_6.1 tag
>> After make installworld I ran the final run through of mergemaster and 
>> received this error:
>>
>> ERROR CODE 64
>> FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'dc' into /usr/src/etc/ and install files to the 
>> temproot environment.
>>
>> Cant say how far it got before this error but it looked like it was 
>> going along pretty good.
>> Upon reboot there were at least one system files missing, like hosts. 
>> I'm not sure if other files failed to copy on as well.
>> I was in single user mode and did the fsck and mounts as described in 
>> the manual. I chmod 777 on that directory but that did not help.
>>
>> Also noticed samba did not start from rc.conf although it loads and runs 
>> from the prompt. But these may or may not  be a symptom of the error.
>>
>> Should I be concerned about this? How I fix and move on?
>>     
>
> Sounds like you had disk problems of some sort; do you remember when
> and what?
>
> Try running "mergemaster -av" and see if it gives you more of a clue.
> If you don't understand the output, we'll take a look at it; I don't
> think I have enough information to diagnose your issues now.
>
>
>   
Disk should be healthy, but I wonder if I ran out of space in one of the 
slices. Maybe /var was full.
I used the full disk and auto-defaults when I set the disk up under 
6.0_RELEASE a few months ago.