Freebsd-update not working for me

[Kurt Buff]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 22:25, Jason <jhelfman at e-e.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake:
>>
>> Weird little problem here...
>>
>> I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was
>> able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and
>> all, but 'freebsd-update -r  8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see output
>> below. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start
>> troubleshooting this? I don't see anything in /var/log/messages.
>
> You may want to see how many files you have downloaded under
> /var/db/freebsd-update. The patches were applied. It appears it was only an
> issue of getting more files. As the program is running you can do an ls
> under /var/db/freebsd-update to see how many files are being downloaded.
>
> Have you tried running the command again?
> -jgh

Ran the command again, and it failed again, dang it.

After running it again this morning, issuing

     'll /var/db/freebsd-update/files | wc -l'

yields 43625 files - only 9 of them were dated today.

Issuing

     'wc -l /var/db/freebsd-update/files.wanted'

yields '36196 /var/db/freebsd-update/files.wanted'

Kurt