Issue With 7.0-Rel -> 7.1-Rel Update

Wed Feb 25 00:30:36 PST 2009

Anyone have any ideas on this? Or should I make a couple of backups 
(test them to confirm they're viable) and install v7.1 from scratch?

Hmmm. There's actually a certain appeal to installing v7.1 from 
scratch. RHEL has the option of creating SoftRAID mirrors at install 
time (and later, of course). Does the FreeBSD installer have that 
capability, as well? If so, then I'll probably go that route even if 
there's a simple solution to the dilemma below; disk space has become 
so incredibly cheap that it's almost a mistake *not* to configure 
mirrors at this point.

Either way, all pointers appreciated....

Thanks,
Vince

** At 14:24 -0500 on 02/22/2009, Vince Sabio wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I am updating an AMD-based machine from v7.0-RELEASE to 
>v7.1-RELEASE. Here's what I get:
>
>================BEGIN:
>ares-root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
>Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
>Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
>Fetching metadata index... done.
>Inspecting system... done.
>
>The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
>kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
>src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/sbin
>src/secure src/share src/sys src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/dict
>world/doc world/games world/info world/manpages world/proflibs
>
>The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
>src/cddl src/compat src/rescue src/tools world/catpages
>
>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 14771 patches.....[snip snip snip]... done.
>Applying patches... done.
>Fetching 21632 files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
>21ca797afb693c5ee108f0c9a617760501cb749b9592603dc16e089acf2be70f has 
>incorrect hash.
>ares-root#
>================END
>
>Weird. But hey, I'm an optimist (and it was 2:00 a.m.), so I figured 
>WTF, I'll try it again....
>
>================BEGIN:
>ares-root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
>Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
>Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-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.
>
>The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
>kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
>src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/sbin
>src/secure src/share src/sys src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/dict
>world/doc world/games world/info world/manpages world/proflibs
>
>The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
>src/cddl src/compat src/rescue src/tools world/catpages
>
>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 10796 patches.....10....20....30. done.
>Applying patches... done.
>Fetching 18821 files... done.
>Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done.
>
>The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map
>Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts
>manually...
>================END
>
>Okay, I reach that point and press Enter, and I am presented with a 
>diff-style file in vi (which is fine; I'm a vi user) that clearly 
>highlights the differences between the current file and v7.1-R file. 
>I'm good to go with the v7.1-R version, so I edit out the 'current' 
>section, remove the 'diff' markers, ZZ, and that file is done.
>
>The updater then presents me with another file whose changes could 
>not be merged automatically. So I go through the identical process.
>
>Wash, rinse, repeat, FOR [more than] FORTY MINUTES' worth of files. 
>Each time, I kept thinking, "Okay, this has to be the last one..," 
>but it wasn't. Even after 40 minutes, the process was not completed 
>-- I just threw in the towel. For all I know, this process could 
>have continued for all 21632 files -- version 11.5-RELEASE could 
>have been out by the time I finished that process.
>
>So, first of all, what did I do wrong?
>
>Second, when I start the upgrade over again, what should I do differently?
>
>And, if all else fails: In each case of editing the files, the v7.1 
>version was fine. Is there any way to tell it, "I have good backups, 
>and want to live dangerously, so Just Do It, and don't ask me if I 
>want to edit anything..."?
>
>Muchas gracias....
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Vince Sabio                                                  vince at vjs.org
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