bin/128501: freebsd-update does not work on netbooted machines

Patrick Oonk patrick at pine.nl
Fri Oct 31 08:10:07 PDT 2008


>Number:         128501
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       freebsd-update does not work on netbooted machines
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 31 15:10:04 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Patrick Oonk
>Release:        6.3-RELEASE-p5
>Organization:
Pine Digital Security
>Environment:
FreeBSD x 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 x i386

>Description:
freebsd-update stops when run on a nfs mounted root on a netbooted machine.

>How-To-Repeat:
run freebsd-update on a netbooted machine
>Fix:
around line 2398 of freebsd-update:

mount -d / | grep ": mount_ufs"
if test $? = 0
then
chflags noschg ${BASEDIR}/${F} || return 1
fi


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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