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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>
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Subject: Re: upgrade to 2.1.7
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Andrew Perry wrote:

> G'day all,
> 
> I'm in the middle of an upgrade to 2.1.7 from 2.1.6, yesterday the line
> dropped out and I couldn't re-connect so I tried starting again and didn't
> select the distributions that had already been upgraded but when it
> finished I got an error saying it couldn't find /etc/fstab and that it
> wasn't too happy about it. Any suggestions and what does fstab do anyway?
> 
> So i've started the upgrade again (i'm testing this on my home machine
> before upgrading my brother-in-law's proxy server so it doesn't matter if
> i stuff it at home as long as i've worked it out by the time I upgrade his
> machine!) and now on <alt><f2> i've seend a few of these:
> 
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/chpass Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/chfn Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/chsh Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/ypchpass Operation not
> permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/ypchfn Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/ypchsh Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/login Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/rdist Operation not permitted
> /stand/cpio: cannot remove current /usr/bin/su Operation not permitted

Could this be a flags problem?  Check and make sure that those files
aren't set append-only or no-change.  You can only remove those flags in
single-user mode, btw. 
 
> does this mean i'm going to have problems? should i download the sources
> as well and make world? 
> 
> thanks in advance
> andrew perry
> andrew@shoal.net.au
> 
> 



 Ben

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