recovering from failed cvsup upgrade

2006-02-09 Thread wo_shi_big_stomach
Greetings. I need help recovering a system that became unresponsive during an upgrade. Steps: 1. Using cvsup, I tried to upgrade a system from RELENG_5_2 to RELENG_5_3 with the usual sequence: cvsup -g -L 2 (cvsup file) make -j 4 buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=SMP make installkernel

Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade

2006-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
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

Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade

2006-02-09 Thread wo_shi_big_stomach
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade

2006-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: Thanks -- I have that system back. Whew. [ ... ] You're welcome. The upgrade routine warned that it could not replace the /usr/src tree and that cvsup was the right way to do this. To get this system from 5.4-RELEASE to RELENG_5_4, am I ok just cvsup'ing src-all