Build World Problem.

[Nikolas Britton]

Charming One wrote:

>Greetings, 
>
>   I recently did a world build upgrade from FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release to
>6.0-Current.
>  
>
Your on your own buddy, this was the WRONG!!! thing to do, your on 
deadly grouds filled with many land mines, I recommend wiping it clean 
and doing a full reinstall (of 5.3). -CURRENT is alpha software for 
hardcore kernel developers only! (the exception to this rule is when 
there getting ready to brach a new -STABLE, i.g. 5-STABLE, the next 
major version of FreeBSD)

If you cvsup with RELENG_6 you will be tracking -CURRENT (aka HEAD), 
NEVER! a good idea for a newbie.

If you cvsup with RELENG_5 you will be tracking -STABLE, -STABLE does 
NOT imply the code is "Stable", only that there won't be radical changes 
to the code, that is what -CURRENT is for, I would not recommend 
tracking this for 5.x until it matures a bit more, maybe after 5.4 or 
5.5-RELEASE and even after it stabilizes tracking -STABLE is not 
recommend for "production systems", Think of it as "Beta" software.

If you cvsup with RELENG_5_3 you will be tracking the -RELEASE branch 
for that -RELEASE, this will get you critical and security updates, this 
is what you want. Also some -RELEASE branches are designated as errata 
fix branches. Then when 5.4 is released you would change it to 
RELENG_5_4 and cvsup to 5.4.

>This error scrolls across the screen several times and I am unable to ever
>reach a prompt, however if I restart in single user mode I can still mount
>all my filesystems fine, and such, however I will be the first to admit I
>have no idea what it would be that I am looking for.
>  
>
You "might" have a bastion of hope here, in single user mode, if you can 
cvsup back down to 5.3 and buildworld / buildkernel "and" get them 
installed you can recover the system.

If you have anymore questions send them to freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
mailing list, not here. This is not the place for techincal questions 
such as this.