From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 03:55:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990FF16A405 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 03:55:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhjacks@swbell.net) Received: from smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1055743D5A for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 03:55:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhjacks@swbell.net) Received: (qmail 59427 invoked from network); 3 May 2006 03:55:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO anduril.minas.tirith) (mhjacks@swbell.net@65.67.72.193 with login) by smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 May 2006 03:55:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anduril.minas.tirith (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7648A2E06C for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 22:55:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at minas.tirith Received: from anduril.minas.tirith ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (anduril.minas.tirith [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BQqkmcGX9cYt for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 22:53:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.112] (ARAGORN.minas.tirith [192.168.1.112]) by anduril.minas.tirith (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD032E02E for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 22:53:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 22:54:01 -0500 From: Martin Jackson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RC2 binary upgrade: var/empty: no chmod allowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 03:55:31 -0000 Hello everyone, When BETA4 was released, I installed it on a very old machine of mine, and tried doing a binary upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-BETA4. I got an error almost immediately that it failed to write because it couldn't chmod var/empty (due to the schg flag being set). I also had other problems which in retrospect were likely pilot error. Around that time, a bunch of other stuff came up and I let the matter drop. I just binary upgraded my 6.1-BETA4 installation to 6.1-RC2 and ran into the same thing. I was able to work around it by using the holographic shell to chflags /var/empty so that the installer could write to it, which it does when I retry the install. BTW - I am doing a custom distribution set including base, doc, games, info, man, and the GENERIC kernel. Everything else I install from either a local cvsup mirror or a package build machine. Has anyone else seen this? I can't rule out pilot error here. Thanks, Marty