From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 19:31: 4 2003 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 451D837B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C917443FBD for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-209.244.236.58.dial1.weehawken1.level3.net ([209.244.236.58] helo=ntwinn) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18rV37-0004ZU-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:31:02 -0800 Message-ID: <005901c2e523$4fedb630$0501a8c0@HOMEFREE> From: "Bob Perry" To: Subject: FreeBSD (4.5-to-4.7) Binary Upgrade Mishap Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:32:13 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message