From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 00:44:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D66816A401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1945413C45A for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JC5000OL62HPOF0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:44:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JC500IJG62GUNO0@pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:44:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JC5006AX62FOE50@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:44:40 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 1128 invoked from network); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:44:37 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:44:37 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:57:46 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <294439d20701162337m1b15e385n1200ce4fe3ec98a3@mail.gmail.com> To: Amarendra Godbole Message-id: <45B15AFA.4070306@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <294439d20701162337m1b15e385n1200ce4fe3ec98a3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem upgrading from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:44:41 -0000 Amarendra Godbole wrote: > Fetching metadata index... done. > Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. > Applying metadata patches... done. > Fetching 1 metadata files... failed. > > Is this because of a connectivity issue on my end, or some issue with > update1.freebsd.org? I don't see any connectivity issues from my side > though. Thanks in advance. The server has rebooted a couple of times in the past week (I needed to upgrade it, too!) so it's possible that you were just happened to hit the window when it was inaccessible. Aside from that, I haven't seen any connectivity problems -- but the internet being as unreliable as it is, it's entirely possible. FWIW, no files are installed until after everything is fetched, so if the downloading fails, you can always try again. Colin Percival