Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:42:09 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: upgrade 7.2 to 8.0 problems Message-ID: <4B431781.2040301@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4B418470.2000607@ish.com.au> References: <4B418470.2000607@ish.com.au>
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On 4/01/10 5:02 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > # 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. Just for the archives... the problem was a non-functional LDAP. I had thought that in single user mode nsswitch was bypassed, but I was wrong and the (non-running) LDAP server was being queried for every 'install'. The timeout (5 minutes?) was the delay before it then proceeded to the next file. 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
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