Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:45:24 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd-update not working for me Message-ID: <AANLkTi=_nh9pRciHDLqmxS1-GpPMqeKoOzgew3JgLyqY@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101002052522.GA62385@Jason-Helfmans-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <AANLkTikdFphD02i4xBxb1M5ypadDwh=x2m-GfRx93GSR@mail.gmail.com> <20101002052522.GA62385@Jason-Helfmans-MacBook-Pro.local>
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 22:25, Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake:
>>
>> Weird little problem here...
>>
>> I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was
>> able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and
>> all, but 'freebsd-update -r =C2=A08.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see outpu=
t
>> below. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start
>> troubleshooting this? I don't see anything in /var/log/messages.
>
> You may want to see how many files you have downloaded under
> /var/db/freebsd-update. The patches were applied. It appears it was only =
an
> issue of getting more files. As the program is running you can do an ls
> under /var/db/freebsd-update to see how many files are being downloaded.
>
> Have you tried running the command again?
> -jgh
Ran the command again, and it failed again, dang it.
After running it again this morning, issuing
'll /var/db/freebsd-update/files | wc -l'
yields 43625 files - only 9 of them were dated today.
Issuing
'wc -l /var/db/freebsd-update/files.wanted'
yields '36196 /var/db/freebsd-update/files.wanted'
Kurt
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