From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 13 4: 9:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42EB37B407 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 04:09:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15L0mX-00080I-00; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:06:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:06:49 +0100 From: Ceri To: Christoph Sold Cc: Tim Erlin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster - problem installing files Message-ID: <20010713120649.B10988@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010712175924.83029.qmail@web11707.mail.yahoo.com> <3B4EA3AA.E7CC9835@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4EA3AA.E7CC9835@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:30:50AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:30:50AM +0200, Christoph Sold said: > Tim Erlin schrieb: > > > > I'm updating my source, trying to run mergemaster, but > > it seems to fail when trying to install the temporary > > or merged files. The error is "problem installing > > ./blahblahfile, it will remain to merge by hand > > later." > This _is_ the quick solution: somehow you have managed to make one file > read-only even to root, thus mergemaster does not want to replace it. > All other files got merged. I'm not convinced - I've been getting this error for approximately two months on two different machinesm mainly with stuff in /etc/defaults. The strangest bit is that after mergemaster has completed, checking the files reveals that they _have_ actually been merged, which is why I never worried about it. Ceri -- We've tried this God stuff long enough. It's time for a change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message