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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Li, Qing wrote:

> I cvs'd about 7 hours ago and build world took a while ...
>
> My previous system was also 6.0-CURRENT that was
> cvs'd about a month ago.

The generic path for recovery is as follows:

- Boot up in single user mode.
- Manually configure network interface(s).
- cvsup again.
- "make world" in /usr/src, still in single-user mode.
- mergemaster -i
- boot into multi-user mode.

Give that a whirl...

Andy

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