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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2011 19:52:19 +0300
From:      "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>
To:        "Robert Fitzpatrick" <robert@webtent.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2
Message-ID:  <C6FAB85C565B4D629B7B116DD3155A0C@rivendell>
In-Reply-To: <4DC8179C.3070805@webtent.org>
References:  <4DC7E405.9050403@webtent.org> <5ED8D7FBA88F4D8ABA343BFE57440BC9@rivendell> <4DC8179C.3070805@webtent.org>

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> mx3# mergemaster -p
>
> *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot
>  *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use
>  *** Creating and populating directory structure in 
> /var/tmp/temproot
>
> cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory
>
>   *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment
>
> So, I just need to get all the source and then rebuild as you 
> mentioned?
>
> --Robert

Yes, grab the whole source tree - kernel upgrades by just compiling 
the kernel itself are usually okay, if done within same release, when 
upgrading, the userland needs to be built with the new kernel.

The correct process for upgrading from source is described in:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

-Reko 



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