From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 19 22:44:14 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 26D5A16A442 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhjacks@swbell.net) Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2559F43D53 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:44:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhjacks@swbell.net) Received: (qmail 4622 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2006 22:44:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO anduril.minas.tirith) (mhjacks@swbell.net@65.67.72.193 with login) by smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2006 22:44:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anduril.minas.tirith (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAA42E058 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:44:11 -0600 (CST) 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 11701-05 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:44:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (arwen.minas.tirith [192.168.2.102]) by anduril.minas.tirith (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E4E2E061 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:44:10 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <441DDEA6.8090805@swbell.net> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:43:50 -0600 From: Martin Jackson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net> <20060319215507.GA7464@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060319215507.GA7464@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at minas.tirith Subject: Re: 6.1-BETA4 installation report 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: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:44:14 -0000 >> 1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it >> had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that >> off, and upgrade continued. > > It's supposed to be that way, so something is wrong if this is causing > problems :( Agreed. :) Looking through the source to sysinstall, it looks like I should have a /boot/kernel.prev, but I don't. Perhaps the install of base went more poorly than I thought? I wound up not having /boot/kernel at all. >> 2) The 'kernels' distribution wasn't installed at all, which led loader >> to complain upon reboot. I had an old kernel installed, so I booted >> from that and used sysinstall to install GENERIC. I also had to change >> loader.conf to reference 'kernel="GENERIC"'. Is this the preferred way >> to do it, or should I move 'GENERIC' to 'kernel'? > > It should be installed as kernel. Again I don't know how you got > something else :( Hm. I will try to reinstall with 6.0-RELEASE and try to do the binary upgrade again, and see what happens. Things will be different; this system was my first attempt to go to STABLE before I upgraded it so I can't rule out errors of my own in this case. Thanks, Marty