freebsd-update borked?

Thu Aug 4 19:55:26 UTC 2016

Yass Amed wrote:
> On 08/04/2016 07:00 AM, freebsd-stable-request at freebsd.org wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:51:13 +0200
>> From: Michelle Sullivan<michelle at sorbs.net>
>> To: St?phane Dupille via freebsd-stable<freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
>> Subject: freebsd-update borked?
>> Message-ID:<57A212F1.6060309 at sorbs.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>
>> As per the subject...
>>
>>
>> [root at cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from 
>> update.FreeBSD.org... done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
>> Applying metadata patches... done.
>> Fetching 1 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
>> metadata is corrupt.
>> [root at cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
>> [root at cheetah ~]# mkdir  /var/db/freebsd-update
>> [root at cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
>> Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from 
>> update.FreeBSD.org... done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Fetching 2 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
>> metadata is corrupt.
>> [root at cheetah ~]# uname -a
>> FreeBSD cheetah.sorbs.net 9.2-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15 #0:
>> Mon Nov  3 20:31:29 UTC 2014
>> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
> See this thread https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/28992/ you might 
> have a DNS issue according to this line "Looking up update.FreeBSD.org 
> mirrors... none found ".
> OR, "sudo rm -f /var/db/freebsd-update/*.gz" and re-download the file 
> again.

Well the:

[root at cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
[root at cheetah ~]# mkdir  /var/db/freebsd-update

Would have done the same thing...

DNS should be fine... appears to be:

[michelle at cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ dig update.freebsd.org

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>> update.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39566
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;update.freebsd.org.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
update.freebsd.org.    600    IN    CNAME    update5.freebsd.org.
update5.freebsd.org.    600    IN    A    204.9.55.80

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freebsd.org.        600    IN    NS    ns2.isc-sns.com.
freebsd.org.        600    IN    NS    ns1.isc-sns.net.
freebsd.org.        600    IN    NS    ns3.isc-sns.info.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.isc-sns.net.    3600    IN    A    72.52.71.1
ns1.isc-sns.net.    3600    IN    AAAA    2001:470:1a::1
ns2.isc-sns.com.    3600    IN    A    63.243.194.1
ns2.isc-sns.com.    3600    IN    AAAA    2001:5a0:10::1
ns3.isc-sns.info.    3600    IN    A    63.243.194.1
ns3.isc-sns.info.    3600    IN    AAAA    2001:5a0:10::1

;; Query time: 164 msec
;; SERVER: 89.150.192.2#53(89.150.192.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug  4 22:41:04 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 294

And actually it'll do this:

[michelle at cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv 
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 40 80 update6.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80 update5.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80 update3.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80 update4.freebsd.org.

Which actually returns this:

[michelle at cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv 
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org | sed -nE "s/update.freebsd.org (has SRV 
record|server selection) //p" | cut -f 1,2,4 -d ' ' | sed -e 's/\.$//' | 
sort
_http._tcp.1 35 update4.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 40 update6.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 5 update3.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 50 update5.freebsd.org

You'll note however, that now...

[michelle at cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ sudo freebsd-update -r 
9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Password:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic world/base world/doc

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
src/src world/games world/lib32

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
.
.
etc..

So what ever was broken is not now... and it still says "Looking up 
update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found."

Thanks for trying...
>
>
> FYI: 9.3 will reach end-of-life in less than 4mos (try one of the 10.Xs).

Not a hope in hell of that they don't work on this box, but even so the 
recommended path is go to the latest before the upgrade (and having not 
done that in the past and ended up bricking the box, I think it still 
stands.)

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/