freebsd-update hang on 10.0-BETA2->BETA4 upgrade

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:22:35PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:21:32AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:14:40AM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to upgrade a system from BETA2 to BETA4.
> > > 
> > 
> > Have you patched freebsd-update(8) prior to the upgrade?
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:04.freebsd-update.asc
> 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update.asc
> 
> Thanks, missed those. But the same problem occurs:
> 
> This box has no source code, so I'm trying to use freebsd-update to
> upgrade to 10.0-beta2-pwhatever, then to beta4.
> 
> The fetch command shows that freebsd-update needs patching.
> 
> When I run the install, I get:
> 
> ;freebsd-update install
> Installing updates...
> 
> And it hangs.
> 
> > What is shown when you hit ^T when it hangs?
> 
> load: 0.17  cmd: install 2796 [nanslp] 156.82r 0.01u 0.02s 0% 6220k
> 

If you keep hitting ^T, does the install(1) PID change?

> Any thoughts?
> 
> This is a new system, so I could reinstall it if need be, but it
> seemed that troubleshooting might be valuable. If I should just
> reinstall with beta4, please say so.
> 

This is not a scalable solution. :)

It is a pretty large update, so I would not be surprised if it does take
a bit longer than normally expected.  Either way, I'm getting a VM set
up now to see what happens.

Glen

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