From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 14:13:43 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 47773106564A for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2098FC0C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:13:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:13:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4D78DC93.7000303@ose.nl> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:13:39 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: 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 14:13:43 -0000 On 03/10/2011 03=3A03 PM=2C Tom Worster wrote=3A =3E at this stage=2C i have no remote access=2E even if i could gain access= =2C i =3E wouldn=27t know what state it=27s in or how to proceed=2E it=27s probab= ly best now =3E to pay for the hosting company to install 8=2E1 from cd=2E Well if this is an option=2E But before paying and with a bit of bad luck= getting the same problem in 8=2E1 it would be nice to know what=27s the cau= se=2E You do not have remote console access and a way to mount a virtual cdrom=3F= It sounds more like kernel and userland are not in sync or something else= =2E This shouldn=27t be a problem caused by freeb-update though=2E Maybe someone has a clue about this=3F Is this on real hardware or hosted in a virtual machine setup=3F I haven=27t have this happen with about 30 servers the last three years goi= ng from 6 to 7 and to 8=2C the latter with freebsd-update=2C rebooting with GE= NERIC and then building a custom kernel=2E DISCLAIMER=3A This e-mail is for the intended recipient=28s=29 only=2E Acce= ss=2C disclosure=2C copying=2C distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited=2E If yo= u have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system= =2E