Upgrade HELP !?!?!??! desperate !?!?!

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Fri Oct 17 13:53:11 PDT 2003


At 2003-10-17T17:46:56Z, "Brent Bailey" <misterb at bmyster.com> writes:

> I just finished upgrading a freebsd 4.6 machine to the newest RELEASE
> using CVSUP and the whole buildworld procedure.

Erm, define "the newest RELEASE".  What does 'uname -a' report?

There's a good possibility that you just "upgraded" to 5.x.

> when i ran mergemaster after all the compiling and i chose to NOT have
> rc.conf over written and chose to keep my original ..so i dont see why the
> machine isnt reading the file

Mergemaster should never ask to overwrite /etc/rc.conf; it isn't even listed
in /usr/src/etc.

-- 
Kirk Strauser

"94 outdated ports on the box,
 94 outdated ports.
 Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done,
 82 outdated ports on the box."
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