i386/95165: 6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install

[Andras Got]

The following reply was made to PR i386/95165; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andras Got <andrej at antiszoc.hu>
To: Christoph Weber-Fahr <christoph.weber-fahr at arcor.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/95165: 6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old
 install
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:21:58 +0200

 Hi,
 
 And of course you read the notes...
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#UPGRADE
 
 Of course this is for source upgrade, but there was a lotof changes since 4.9 and you should 
 reinstall for a 4.x. :(
 
 Regards,
 Andrej
 
 Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote:
 >> Number:         95165
 >> Category:       i386
 >> Synopsis:       6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       critical
 >> Priority:       medium
 >> Responsible:    freebsd-i386
 >> State:          open
 >> Quarter:        
 >> Keywords:       
 >> Date-Required:
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 31 20:00:31 GMT 2006
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Christoph Weber-Fahr
 >> Release:        FreeBSD 6.1 beta4
 >> Organization:
 > Arcor AG
 >> Environment:
 > no environment string available - system is unusable until 
 > completely reinstalled (or possibly manually repaired.)
 > 
 > HW is a HP Proliant DL380 G3
 > 
 >> Description:
 > 	The upgrade function fails to complete and renders the system 
 > 	unusable.
 > 	I tried to binary ugrade a 4.11-RELEASE-p9 system which was 
 > 	working fine.
 > 	Precise problem is that is complains about a write error with
 > 	the base install set. Looking at F2 reveals that the "error" is 
 > 	a "permission denied" while trying to unpack/move /stand/gunzip
 > 	One thing I noted is that the install set uses leading "/" - 	
 > 	maybe it tries to overwrite the cd or the mfs instead of writing to 
 > 	the target disk.
 > 
 > 	whatever you do the base distribution install is aborted here and 
 > 	sysinstall continues with the bin distribution.
 > 
 > 	later it retries with the same problem. After reboot the system
 > 	is unusable.
 > 
 > 	trying the same with the 5.4-RELEASE cd works just fine.
 > 
 > 	Another issue: apparently the beta4 ISOs do not conatain any 
 > 	packages. for X.org sysinstall complains about a missing 
 > 	index file.
 > 		
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >> Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >> Release-Note:
 >> Audit-Trail:
 >> Unformatted:
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