Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:32:13 -0500 From: "Bob Perry" <rperry4@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD (4.5-to-4.7) Binary Upgrade Mishap Message-ID: <005901c2e523$4fedb630$0501a8c0@HOMEFREE>
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Recently tried to upgrade my 4.5 box using the 4.7 CDs and ran into a
problem which left me with a partially upgraded system.
I have a 14 GB hard disk so I chose to load all of the canned distributions.
During the early stages of the upgrade, I received a message indicating that
"/usr/src" was not loaded and should be upgraded using the CVSup instead.
OK.
The next set of messages were more problematic and appeared in the following
order:
Add of packages freetype2-2.1.1 aborted, error code 1
Loading of dependent package freetype2-2.1.2 failed
Loading of dependent package XFree86 -libraries -4.2.1-1 failed
Loading of dependent XFree86-FontServer -4.2.0 failed
The next message appeared after the program was "...making slices...":
Hmmm, couldn't even extract the bin distribution. Start over.
So, I did...three times not realizing that my original kernel was being
trashed along with my config files. I'm a newbie of sorts and I've spent
the last week fussing and fuming over the time wasted so far with, what I
thought, should have been a relatively simple process. I'm over it and
ready to move on. I ran the upgrade again, this time leaving out anything
to do with the X System. It ran successfully (?) however, I need to
restore/reinstall certain files this weekend to make it whole again.
What did I miss? Does one have to become an "expert" to work with this OS?
BTW, I did back up my 4.5 system before attempting the upgrade.
Thanks.
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