Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 03:09:59 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching 2 metadata files... failed (freebsd-update) Message-ID: <20190912030959.9e0389bc.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20190911211927.GI41568@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <20190911211927.GI41568@bastion.zyxst.net>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:19:27 +0100, tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > â—™ontext: > > I upgraded a 12-stable system @r349995 to 12-release-p10 @r352201. > > Before upgrading, I checked to make sure FREEBSD_UPDATE was not present in > /etc/src.conf. Then downloaded sources, make cleanworld buildworld buildkernel > installkernel mergemaster -p installworld mergemaster -Ui reboot then make > check-old delete-old delete-old-libs reboot again That order sounds a bit off. Have a look at /usr/src/Makefile, at the comment header, which states: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # [steps 3. & 4. can be combined by using the "kernel" target] # 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). # 6. `mergemaster -p' # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `mergemaster' (you may wish to use -i, along with -U or -F). # 9. `make delete-old' # 10. `reboot' # 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) The world is to be installed in single-user mode. > Found that freebsd-update still not installed, so cd into > /usr/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update && make && make install > > freebsd-update was found but couldn't find any servers so copied > /var/db/etcupdate/current/etc/freebsd-update.conf into /etc Do you also have /etc/freebsd-update.conf present? > Now it finds the server to update from but it fails to get the metadata like > this: > > # freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Fetching 2 metadata files... failed. Looks like the correct server. > files and perms in /var/db/freebsd-update look like this: > > drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512B Sep 11 21:52 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 225B Aug 20 18:36 > cae42a89f90be555b530a759cd400925bce03ed73ee78e665bef3fe5293e872f On my system, that entry is a symlink: f465c3739385890c221dff1a05e578c6cae0d0430e46996d319db7439f884336-rollback -> install.oDEqit Not sure if it's an automatically generated one. It does point to a directory with drwx------ permissions, there are several ones named install.<xxxxx>. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 130B Sep 11 21:52 filelist > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B Sep 11 21:52 files > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0B Sep 11 21:52 patchlist > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 800B Aug 20 18:36 pub.ssl > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75B Sep 11 21:52 serverlist > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75B Sep 11 21:52 serverlist_full > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25B Sep 11 21:52 serverlist_tried > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 150B Sep 11 21:52 tINDEX.new > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0B Sep 11 21:52 tINDEX.present > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 113B Sep 11 21:52 tag.new Looks correct. > What am I doing wrong? There's plenty of space on the system. It's not a matter of free disk space. Something has gone wrong with your OS installation. I assume you didn't follow the correct order of steps, and somehow (I cannot imagine why), freebsd-update didn't get installed properly. You can verify correct structure and permissions with the mtree file at /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist - freebsd-update has an entry there, which suggests that after a clean install, that directory (/var/db/freebsd-update) is empty, and will be populated by the freebsd-update program itself. You could try this: # cd /var/db # mv freebsd-update freebsd-update.old # mkdir freebsd-update # chmod -R 0700 freebsd-update That should initialize the directory entry as if it was a clean installation. Also check that you have the configuration file in /etc as mentioned above. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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