misc/186278: freebsd-update install fails if /boot is full

[Elias Rohrer]

>Number:         186278
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       freebsd-update install fails if /boot is full
>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:   Thu Jan 30 16:10:02 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Elias Rohrer
>Release:        9.2 to 10.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD cheshirecat 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014     root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
When using freebsd-update upgrade / freebsd-update install from 9.2 to 10.0 I encountered a problem because my /boot drive was full. Even though freebsd-update reported it finished successfully, I could see that it failed to copy the kernel to /boot.
After making some space on boot I re-ran freebsd-update install and thought it would perform the same actions, so this time it would work, however it didn't and the machine failed to boot after the update.




>How-To-Repeat:
Upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0 with a full /boot drive via freebsd-update.
>Fix:
It would be nice if freebsd-update would check whether it fails to copy the data to /boot, so one could re-run the command again.

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