From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 19 23:24:54 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 B1A9A16A400 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:24:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D3943D62 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:24:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.199] ([10.0.0.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k2JNOro7045156 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <441DE846.1070309@errno.com> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:24:54 -0800 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Jackson References: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net> <20060319215507.GA7464@xor.obsecurity.org> <441DDEA6.8090805@swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <441DDEA6.8090805@swbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 23:24:54 -0000 Martin Jackson wrote: >>> 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. If you go to the Options panel and turn on debugging (navigate to Debugging, hit space, then q to quit) you'll get debug info in the Alt-F2 window. That might be helpful. I'm not sure if the logging goes in a file that remains across reboot; that'd be useful for debugging issues like this. > >>> 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. If you can record the steps by which you hit a problem it'd be appreciated. I'm not sure I tested the Upgrade mechanism so it may have been broken by the mods I made to the kernel install logic. Sam