From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 10:53:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA22980 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA22971 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from uplink.eng.umd.edu (uplink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.181]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA08000; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:53:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by uplink.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08099; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:53:28 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uplink.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:53:28 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@uplink.eng.umd.edu To: Greg Rowe cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2 BETA Upgrade Problem In-Reply-To: <9701081115.ZM12694@nevis.oss.uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Greg Rowe wrote: > Has anyone seen a problem with 2.2 BETA upgrade procedure using NFS ? If I do > an upgrade using NFS, as soon as it gets to the point of installing the > distributions, it immediately comes back with a "Couldn't extract the following > distributions" (all distributions are listed) error. The debug screen shows > that the device was mounted to /dist but ls'ing /dist gives a "Stale NFS file > handle" error. If I create another directory(while still in the install shell) > and try doing the mount again, the mount command completes with no error but > again ls'ing produces the "Stale NFS file handle" error. > > I've tried upgrading two different systems, from two different NFS servers > with the same results. Both NFS servers contain the 2.1.6 Release directory and > that upgrade works fine. I can upgrade another system if you need me to test > anything. Thanks. I just used nfs to load my new machine from an existing one. Didn't have to go out of my little 2 machine net, but it worked line a charm. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------