From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 4 06:02:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11961065692 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3686D8FC15 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-149.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.149]:65373) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NRgHI-0002jM-0A; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:18:56 +1100 Message-ID: <4B418470.2000607@ish.com.au> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:02:24 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091229 Shredder/3.0.1pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jurgen Weber Subject: upgrade 7.2 to 8.0 problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:02:31 -0000 # AMD64, Supermicro hardware. ZFS filesystem (booting to UFS, then rest of the file system /usr /var /tmp on ZFS). I used "freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE" and all went well for the usual first install of the kernel with "freebsd-update install". After rebooting into single user mode, I manually mounted the ZFS partitions (which needs to be done as follows since the ZFS userland tools are incompatible with 8.0): mount -uw / mount -t zfs tank/usr /usr mount -t zfs tank/var /var mount -t zfs tank/tmp /tmp mount /bootdir Then I ran "freebsd-update install" for the second time to install the userland. The disk lights flashed a lot at the start, but then the system came to an almost complete halt. Looking at 'systat -vmstat' I can see that the disk and cpu are both almost idle. 'top' doesn't work (since it probably is the old userland). 'ps ax' shows that freebsd-install is running and has spawned an 'install' command. It is installing files at the rate of about one per 5 minutes. At this rate it should be done by next Christmas. I can see that the files it completes have their modified date changed to the current date. There is nothing interesting in /var/log/messages. It is still working, and I don't want to kill it for fear of ending up with a completely non-functional system. Any thoughts about this problem? I'm really stumped. Thanks Ari Maniatis -- --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A