Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:49:44 +0000 From: cali clarke <xorquewasp@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 'freebsd-update upgrade' hosed system - rescuable? Message-ID: <5a08be760911250349m6b99ea17wea5f2937b128ae76@mail.gmail.com>
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I just updated to 8.0-RELEASE with freebsd-update. I ran: # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade <merge config files> # freebsd-update install I was told to reboot and run freebsd-update install again to complete the process. I rebooted into single user mode, mounted /usr and /var and somehow forgot to mount / as read-write. Of course, freebsd-update didn't check to see if it could actually write to all the directories it needed to write to first and catastrophically wrote half an upgrade (which it now appears to have deleted the "source" files for) and has broken my system (most of the stuff in /usr/bin now depends on libraries in /lib that were never written). What's the quickest and cleanest way out of this mess? I'll submit a PR if my system ever comes back up. Please CC, i'm not subscribed.
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