Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:31:51 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update error ln: ///rescue/[: No such file or directory Message-ID: <557FD0E7.3050309@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <557F0520.9020105@ifdnrg.com> References: <557F0002.4060400@ifdnrg.com> <44h9q8sys8.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <557F0520.9020105@ifdnrg.com>
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On 15/06/2015 18:02, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > On 15/06/2015 17:48, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> writes: >> >>> I just saw a large list of errors for freebsd-update of the form >>> >>> Installing updates... >>> >>> ln: ///rescue/[: No such file or directory >>> ln: ///rescue/[: No such file or directory >>> .... >>> >>> is this something to panic about? >> Panic, no. But it is a problem; your /rescue tree is basically >> unpopulated. >> >> You didn't hand-delete "/rescue/[", did you? >> >> I'm not sure what the best way to re-install rescue would be, but you >> definitely want to do so. You might go years without needing it, but it >> saves a lot of time (and panic) when you do. > > /rescue is populated ( see first email), but i do note that it's > modification date is March, and that it does not have the odd looking [ > binary ( which i remember someone asking about in this list a while back). > I'd assumed that something was truncated in output but can see now that > it literally can't find /rescue/[ > > scp'd [ from a different box, free-update fetch/update happy now. Almost all entries in /rescue are the same file hard linked - try "ls -i /rescue" to confirm this. Unless the missing file is one of the exceptions (nextboot or dhclient-script on my system), you can recreate it simply by hard linking ln /rescue/rescue /rescue/<missing> Also "/rescue/rescue command args" acts like "/rescue/command args" for any command that's crunched into rescue. -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1
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