mergemaster barf

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 6 22:33:10 PST 2009


Mike Lempriere wrote:
> upgrading 5-stable (was at 5.5) to 6-stable, in preparation for 6-stable
...
> usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ...]
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/etc.
> 
>  *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to
>      the temproot environment
> 
> I've checked, the directory is there (/var/tmp/temproot/etc) however the
> file (master.passwd) is not.
> 
> Any suggestions anyone?  Thanks!

You're going to have to do installworld before running mergemaster to
pick up the new version of cap_mkdb. This will be fine as long as you
don't reboot before mergemaster is done.

hth,

Doug

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