From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 02:33:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44F516A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886FB43FE0 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:33:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2F51C73AD for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:33:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.133 ([10.202.2.133] helo=smtp.us2.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:33:16 -0400 Received: by smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 2A30B7958F; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:33:16 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Richard Shea" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:33:16 +1200 X-Epoch: 1063445596 X-Sasl-enc: GV0ebbiy+Ib4Fd3HE6f/iw Message-Id: <20030913093316.2A30B7958F@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> Subject: What now ? - 4.4->4.8 Binary upgrade has left machine broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:33:19 -0000 Hi - I've just attempted to upgrade from 4.4 to 4.8 using the 'Upgrade' option within sysinstal and now I can't get the machine to offer me a logon prompt. I was hoping I could get suggestions about what to do next. During the install everything was going fine until during ... "Extracting info into / directory" ... I got a dialog "Write Failure on Transfer" and at the bottom of the screen it read /mnt/usr:write failed, file system is full. I then got the same error message several more times substituting 'info' with 'crypto';'krb4','krb5','ports'. I then got a message saying something about 'resurrecting' (went by too fast to see). Clearly the upgrade was trying to reuse my old /etc which was good only it then came up with a series of error messages "Unable to resurrect your old /etc/services", I then got the same message several more times substituting "services" with "spwd.db","ssh","ttys". Finally I got a message which said that everything had turned out fine ... I think we can discount that ! Anyway I then allowed the machine to boot and the boot sequence looked more or less normal but it ended by displaying the date and time but no logon prompt ! Now at a bit of a loss to know how to retrieve the situation. Anyone got any suggestions ? Thanks Richard Shea.