Re: How to resume an interrupted frrleebsd-update install if indeed it is an interruption.

Sivasubramanian M <6.internet@gmail.com> writes:
> Ran freebsd-update install. ( to 14.3 Release) Rebooted after kernel
> update ( by the same command).  While freebsd-update install was
> running, checked du -sh in another terminal, mistyped the passwd and
> then ^C and found on the first console " Installing updates .... doas
> : in prompt_tty(): caught signal 2.1. Does this mean that ^C also
> interrupted the update installation in progress in console 1?

No.  It's just a syslog message that was deemed important enough to be
echoed to the console.

I recommend a) always running freebsd-update inside screen or tmux, and
b) never logging in on ttyv0, since that is where console messages go.

> du -sh /var/db/freebsd-update remains unchangedcat 2.3 GB for over 45
> minutes.

/var/db/freebsd-update is fully populated by the fetch or upgrade stage
and will not grow (or shrink) noticeably while the install stage is
running.

And yes, we know freebsd-update is slow.  There is a Rust implementation
called freebsd-rustdate which is reputedly much faster, though I have
never tried it myself.

DES
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