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Old 27th March 2009
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Default Upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE fails

Hi.

I tried the upgrade and this was the result:
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[root@vm-freebsd ~]# freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/base src/sys world/base world/dict world/doc
world/games world/info world/manpages

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
src/bin src/cddl src/compat src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
src/sbin src/secure src/share src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
world/catpages world/proflibs

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 7.0-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 18755 patches.....10....20 - (omitted) - 410....420....430 done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 16568 files... failed.
I looked in various files in /var/log/ to see if anything more descriptive was issued, but I saw nothing.

I tried to track the disk usage, and it seemed OK. The current space is:
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$ df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    409M    241M    135M    64%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1e    365M     14K    336M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f    5.7G    1.2G    4.0G    23%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1d    688M    324M    308M    51%    /var
This is in a VMWare guest vm. I did this a few times. The output above was from a run on a restored snapshot to make sure that it was known base.

The current version of guest is:
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OS, ker|rel, machine: FreeBSD, 7.0-RELEASE, i386
I usaully re-install BSDs each year or so for practice, so i could certainly do that again if this cannot be made to work.

Thanks for any advice ... cheers, drl
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Hmm. Does it fail like that every time?

It is a failure while fetching data - that is, before applying any changes - so your system is in no danger.

I would thing that the update command has verbose flags, that would tell you what file failed, at least. Hmm, checked, and it doesn't! Blind Alley there.

No, I just had to read the documentation - that is, the file itself.
-v is for debug levels. Your options are debug, stats, and nostats.
So, try it again with -v debug, and let us know what happens. (You will get screen after screen of nonsense: Maybe use script(1) to save the output for later perusal.
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This happens sometimes when a lot of patches need to be downloaded. It happens with portsnap sometimes as well when you need, like, 2000+ patches. It may depend on a busy proxy server in the middle, or a congested connection. Repeating the command will usually get you all the patches eventually. With portsnap, I usually revert to a full 'fetch extract'.
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Hi.

Using the undocumented (except in the script) option "--debug" did not provide any additional information -- the last few lines are pasted below.

I will try a series of updates to see how that works.

Thanks for the replies ... cheers, drl

Code:
http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.1-RELEASE/i386/f/6439f825b8c9cb18344b2dfc6826e8dd10d7a508a8205a960de604391718a05f.gz: 200 OK
http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.1-RELEASE/i386/f/64402081427dd5374033d526970038db53a8f0dc99f315a4c7eb4d1175ac9025.gz: 200 OK
http://update2.FreeBSD.org/7.1-RELEASE/i386/f/64410d73925a3c455eb5354d93175410cdcdd29975d05ad5ed226b519581f53f.gz: 200 OK
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Hi.

I ran the "upgrade" a few times until it seemed to not be able to do any more except list the lines upon lines of items that would be deleted and added.

I then followed the directions for "install", reboot, "install", reboot, and was rewarded with:
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OS, ker|rel, machine: FreeBSD, 7.1-RELEASE-p4, i386
It does take a long time without any discernible activity, and then the deluge of modifications -- which, presumably would be fewer for more frequent runs of the update.

Thanks for the guidance ... cheers, drl
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