From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 09:19:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA30D1065672 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:19:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88708FC13 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:19:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AB3E41CC033; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:19:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:19:43 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Thomas Krause Message-ID: <20080228091943.GA36051@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47C66FCB.8090902@chef-ingenieur.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C66FCB.8090902@chef-ingenieur.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Upgrade to 6.3R failed (with freebsd-update.sh) 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: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:19:43 -0000 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:24:43AM +0100, Thomas Krause wrote: > Dear list, > > as described in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html > I tried a binary upgrade to 6.3R. But the command > > # sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade > > failed with > > 10....2520....2530....2540....2550....2560....2570....2580....2590....2600....2610....2620....2630....2640... > done. > Applying patches... done. > Fetching 1587 files... failed. > > Any ideas how to perform the upgrade? Does freebsd-update use ftp://ftp.freebsd.org at all? If so, I'm willing to bet the failure is caused by the FTP server being overloaded. With the announcement of 7.0-RELEASE, people are hammering the server; the few times I've tried to FTP to it, it's been returning "maximum number of connections exceeded" or something along those lines. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |