From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 25 23:41: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994FC14CA4 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from mammalia.sea (ip81.r10.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.174.81]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA06426 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:41:01 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Wright Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 07:38:15 GMT Message-ID: <19991226.7381500@mammalia.sea> Subject: Re: make world /etc update To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <87iu1msn5j.fsf@main.wgaf.net> References: <19991224.21204000@mammalia.sea> <87ln6k6n1x.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19991225.21194000@mammalia.sea> <87iu1msn5j.fsf@main.wgaf.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.1; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, Joseph: > While reading the thread that resulted from your posting I learned > about a utility called "mergemaster(8)", which, apparently, is > designed for specifically updating /etc folder and friends. > Although I haven't tried using it, I did have a quick look at its man > page, and it looks very promissing. I'm sure going to use it the next > time I upgrade my system. You might want to take a look at it! Thanks, I read the man page on it and I will try it too. But now I've=20 got seemingly worse problems. =20 I decided to update the source again and 'make world' again, so I=20 could start the whole project over from scratch. Before dropping into=20 single user mode to rebuild the system, I did 'rm -rf /usr/obj/'. =20 This is supposed to make the 'make world' speed up somewhat. Funny=20 thing was, it won't allow me to remove some of the directories under=20 /usr/obj/. =20 Yes, I was running as root. So I went down into the directory and=20 find a strange thing: /usr/obj/usr/src/games/dm/FreeBSD But I can't cd to this directory because it doesn't exist! I can't=20 remove it either! =20 I thought, oh well, I'll try 'make world' anyway. It stops with Error=20 code 1, because of that damn phantom directory. Is my filesystem=20 corrupted or something? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message