mergemaster woes at STABLE

[Michael Grimm]

Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:38:05 +0100 Michael Grimm <trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de> wrote

>> starting a couple of weeks ago, I do see mergemaster complaining after
>> "mergemaster -iFU": 
>> 
>>    stat: ./have: stat: No such file or directory
>>    /usr/sbin/mergemaster: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " ~18 & 4095 &
>>          "
>>    install: invalid file mode: ./have
>>    *** FATAL ERROR: Unable to install ./have to /
>> 
>> This is on two different servers running 10.2-STABLE (r293911). I couldn't
>> find similar reports at google, but I might have missend something.
>> 
>> Any idea where to look for?

> Just a hunch; but looks like an unterminated quote --
> ", or ' without the closing ", or '

Well, during compilation and installing of world and kernel it happened somehow, that the following directory had been installed in /var/tmp/temproot:

	root> ls -al /var/tmp/temproot
	-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  uarch 11603 Dec  8 20:52 have been build:

No wonder, that mergemaster complains about "./have".

Thanks and regards,
Michael