From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 12:52:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93546106564A for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp204.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp204.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4478FC0A for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp50.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C536A3880B1 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:52:18 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp50.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 3CDB53880AD for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:52:18 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.1.0.101012 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:52:13 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: FreeBSD Message-ID: Thread-Topic: lost network during freebsd-update install Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: lost network during freebsd-update install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:52:19 -0000 i was upgrading a remote machine from 7.1 to 8.1 with freebsd-update. the "freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade" phase was complete and i had given: # freebsd-update install Installing updates... when the wifi on my local computer went away. eventually i restarted the wifi interface but the ssh session didn't recover. i don't know if the freebsd-update command completed or not. or how to find out. and if it did not, what to do next. i'd be most grateful for any help. tom