From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 15:06:43 2010 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 60CF61065670 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED5E8FC1F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F41F2F37E; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:06:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DO3G0OhYjNS4; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [76.209.222.32]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jhelfman) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F568F2F377; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, _d Sep 2010 08:08:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:08:35 -0700 From: Jason To: Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= Message-ID: <20100929150835.GA59311@Jason-Helfmans-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <4CA34105.7050008@cyanide-studio.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Darwin 10.4.0 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Bastien Semene , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Freebsd-update]cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory 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: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:43 -0000 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:23:32PM +0200, Fernando Apesteguía thus spake: >On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bastien Semene > wrote: >>  Hi, >> >> I'm trying to upgrade a system from 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE, but I have >> the following (non critical) errors : >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> This line appears hundred of times. >> After that, freebsd-update claims that many files are non existent in the >> new version and ask to delete them : >> >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done. >> >> The following file will be removed, as it no longer exists in >> FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE: /boot/device.hints >> Does this look reasonable (y/n)? n >> >> I have updated other systems without any difficulty (from the same 8.0 patch >> level to 8.1). >> >> I tried to delete /var/db/freebsd-update folder, but it changes nothing. >> Same error. >> I found older posts with people searching in the code which function did the >> error, but because everything was fine with the same context on other >> systems I think freebsd-update is mislead (it seems to miss the name of the >> file) at some point. >> >> Does anyone have some hints or direction to follow ? > >I reported this a while ago and try to get in touch with Colin >Percival with no luck. I finally could afford a fresh install. > >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Bastien Semene >> Administrateur Réseau&  Système >> >> Cyanide Studio - FRANCE >> What is the exact command line you are running that gets this error?