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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:53:00 -0500
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade
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wo_shi_big_stomach wrote:
> Greetings. I need help recovering a system that became
> unresponsive during an upgrade. Steps:

Download the FreeBSD 5.4 .iso image, and do a binary upgrade installation from
that.  You should have run "mergemaster -p" before the initial buildworld, and
you should run mergemaster without the flag afterwards...

-- 
-Chuck