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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2023 08:30:33 +0200
From:      "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at>
To:        stable@freebsd.org, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Subject:   Re: etcupdate created empty files = system unbootable
Message-ID:  <bae5d97b-42af-48a6-abf8-ff88ac19c62e@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <312ae63f-4fab-e194-c603-a85fd11f6edd@quip.cz>
References:  <312ae63f-4fab-e194-c603-a85fd11f6edd@quip.cz>

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, at 11:21, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded one machine from 12.3 to 13.2 with source upgrade=20
> (installkernel & installworld).
> Then I run "etcupdate" (about 100 changes listed, mainly U and A, only=
 2=20
> C), "etcupdate resolve" to solve conflicts in newsyslog.conf and=20
> sshd_config, then "etcupdate status" to be sure everything is OK, it=20
> just said: "Modified regular file remains: /etc/motd"
>
> After this I updated bootcode with gpart and rebooted the machine but =
it=20
> does not come up, cannot login via ssh. Accessing this remote machine=20
> with remote mamagement / IPMI was a nightmare. It took me almost 5 hou=
rs=20
> because of java etc. but it's a different story.
>
> The machine in question is all ZFS based.

Ouch. I don=E2=80=99t wish java remote console on anybody. I have heard =
a very small number of vaguely similar complaints but nothing concrete.

Do you still have the zfs snapshot this was upgraded from? It would be g=
ood to know if this issue is reproducible, and even better to work out w=
hat=E2=80=99s happening.

Please log a PR for this issue

Dave



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