freebsd-update fetching files failed

Joe js.lists at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 12:41:02 PST 2007


How can I troubleshoot these errors below?

* The tool does report anything useful other than "failed".
* There does not appear to be a logfile for failures.
* There does not appear to be any debug options.

Also, /var/db/freebsd-update


# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 18 patches. done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 17 files... failed.


# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 16 patches. done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 15 files... failed.



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Yes, I patched freebsd-update according to:

http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc




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