Ok, I've taken the coward's way out and installed a fresh system from CD, upgrading according to the manual's best practice recommended method :-) I've kept the VM images of the failed upgrade system, when I have some time I'll dig a bit further for the actual reason make buildworld failed.
Thanks for all the suggestions! Traiano On 2011/11/14 11:59 AM, "Traiano Welcome" <traiano.welc...@mtnbusiness.co.za> wrote: > > >On 2011/11/14 11:25 AM, "Damien Fleuriot" <m...@my.gd> wrote: > >> >>On 11/11/11 11:53 AM, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:45:15 +0000, Traiano Welcome wrote: >>>> And I don't seem to have a src.conf anywhere on my filesystem ... >>>>Hmmm. >>> >>> You'll have to create it yourself (just like /etc/make.conf). >>> See "man src.conf" for details. >>> >> >> >> >>I can't see any odd variables in your /etc/make.conf > > >Me neither. This is a standard config I've used for hundreds of bsd >machines (vms and real tin) so I doubt this has anything to do with ... Of >course, source may change, requiring make.conf to change, but I'm >spculating here :P > > > >> >> >>I would suggest trying to update from 8.0 to 8.1 first, instead of 8.0 >>-> 8.2 > > >Currently testing this ... > > > >> >> >>Please try this and see if you can successfully build the world. >> >> >>If you still can't, try "updating" from 8.0 to 8.0 (yes, I'm serious). >>See if you can build the world. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"