From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 08:13:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16276106566B for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-dfb6-freebsd-current=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o1.shared.sendgrid.net (o1.shared.sendgrid.net [74.63.231.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C23CD8FC0A for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:13:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=hv98bZqOSo5mP5iwsAukiol4kjk=; b=fvbeH51m/EM6/JhtPSeIjR4MtVuE 9zVhX+gAtHrorx4tpSH/ktFyGR+xzatt/FBFi5a3VcdfpL1pxHZKyFrcwLHlQnIl Cq0z/czhW18PJ7473IvSSSiyWDC7Yj8yoJDJTc9sXZ4pmsOU3SdEZ/V3QytGMY7T EUYtbbl13/c2nYo= Received: by 10.36.109.132 with SMTP id mf29.4422.4EA66B6D1 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:55:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.9.180.5]) by mi9 (SG) with ESMTP id 4ea66b6d.1ee2.ba49442 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:55:25 -0500 (CST) Received: (qmail 51466 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2011 07:52:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2011 07:52:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 26954 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2011 07:54:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 25 Oct 2011 07:54:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4EA66B40.8060700@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:54:40 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111024 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Sendgrid-EID: XhyBwObMhraAR+zdwMupjQ6BIqbhdEfc+6p+uBxS7S/by8ezOpMfohVsve+C/IPSe7DdM17tvXXYAwwGfubGQOLW4cB6Pfm9W4FOBnEGuKr1qGQbC+W5CQj4cxwxK+9B3htiLSoTZzQMbzbqfhIWDMPVDQwDPrQa5QJsJESuWNU= X-SendGrid-Contentd-ID: {"test_id":1319529326} Cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: freebsd-update not checking disk space? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:13:07 -0000 On 10/25/11 00:52, Ren=E9 Ladan wrote:=0D > I tried to upgrade a server at work from 8.2-RELEASE-i386 to 9.0-RC1-i386= =0D > using freebsd-update.When running 'freebsd-update install' to install the= new=0D > kernel, but that failed because there was insufficient disk space. This r= esulted=0D > in freebsd-update thinking everything is ok but left the kernel unbootabl= e.=0D =0D Yes, this is a known issue in freebsd-update -- it needs to be much smarter= =0D about detecting and handling errors. Unfortunately I haven't had time to=0D deal with this (and it's a lot of work).=0D =0D -- =0D Colin Percival=0D Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve=0D Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly para= noid