From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 07:34:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4741C16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:34:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fri.itea.ntnu.no (fri.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E29243D55 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:33:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CCB81B9 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:33:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:33:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 4039 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Mar 2005 07:33:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Mar 2005 07:33:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:33:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Lord Raiden In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20050329163344.00a5a4d0@raiden.net> Message-ID: <20050330093029.H3796@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20050329152205.01d49120@192.168.0.25> <5.2.0.9.2.20050329163344.00a5a4d0@raiden.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with man X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:34:00 -0000 * Lord Raiden [2005-03-29 19:55 -0500] > > After updating everything to its latest version, did you remember to > > mergemaster to update your /etc files? > > Nope, didn't think to do it because I've never had to do it before. > This would be a first. But I did run it and it errored out when I tried it > and got this error. Any ideas? : snip : > I cvsup'ed my ports tree and src files, but I didn't update my kernel or core > files, only my ports. Might that cause a problem? It was probably because you said you updated "everything", that you were guided to use mergemaster. We now see that you did in fact not update "everything", just your ports. You should only run mergemaster when updating your base system. This is also probably why you never used it before. Svein Halvor