From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 07:21:11 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 4BA1E16A405 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 07:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E917643D49 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 07:21:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34931A4E04; Wed, 3 May 2006 00:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4CF8F5164F; Wed, 3 May 2006 03:21:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 03:21:10 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alexey Karagodov Message-ID: <20060503072110.GA2995@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Martin Jackson Subject: Re: 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 07:21:11 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:14:28AM +0400, Alexey Karagodov wrote: > chflags -R noschg /var/empty You missed the point..the claim is that sysinstall barfs when it encounters a /var/empty that is legitimately schg. Kris P.S. Don't top-post =20 > 2006/5/3, Martin Jackson : > > > >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 > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEWFnlWry0BWjoQKURAsHLAJ46zBB4mE68HJ06XZpVghDkrD5NcwCcC+o3 Ab72fO1uvGMV9j13KI/zf6o= =UAOO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--