From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 18:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forrie.net (forrie.net [64.20.73.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B682737B54E for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from Forrest (getbent@forrie.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.129.124]) by forrie.net with id e6Q1kag56880; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:46:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000725214239.00e0ceb0@64.20.73.233> X-Sender: forrie@64.20.73.233 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:44:54 -0400 To: Eric Ogren From: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Re: Mergemaster usage Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000725211225.B505@earthlink.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000725160800.00c62310@64.20.73.233> <4.3.2.7.2.20000725160800.00c62310@64.20.73.233> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:12 PM 7/25/00 -0400, Eric Ogren wrote: >[wrapping columns at a sane setting is good, btw] [ ... ] I've set the wrapping at 70.... I use Eudora 4.3.2. Complain to the vendor. >Well, as far as I can tell from the manpage, mergemaster -a simply tells >you which files have changed (by leaving them around in the temp >directory). If the manpage is telling the truth, then mergemaster cannot >be the cause of your problems. > >I don't really know anything about getty, so can't help you there. [ ... ] I think the logical step is to reinstall the system and try it again, and see if this fixes the problem. However, using the mergemaster process... it doesn't seem realistic to answer 100 questions about whether to merge diffs or not, or to have to manually update config files for every system build. Imagine doing that for over 100 FreeBSD machines. Not. There must be something I'm missing ....... Thanks, _F >Eric > >On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:14:05PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > I had a problem recently, with the new changes in kernel compiling, > > with Mergemaster that effectively hosed my system. > > > > It's probably due to user error, however I followed the new > > directions outlined in Kris' message posting. > > > > I tried using mergemaster -a (to automatically import diffs), but no go. > > The system will boot, but now it can't run getty on /dev/ttyXX, which is > > perhaps a part of another problem with the update I performed. > > > > Before I proceed and reinstall this system (it's a test system, so no big > > deal) I want to understand this procedure clearly -- we have a lot of > > other systems that will be updated to 4.x. > > > > Here is the procedure I understand to be correct: > > > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel > > make installkernel > > shutdown (drop into single-user mode) > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > reboot > > > > Now, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message