Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:43:12 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: John Rogers <ruralriver@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary upgrade issues Message-ID: <44D2DE70.4020002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <100416c30608031503n721c1583labb86a1e8abe7978@mail.gmail.com> References: <100416c30608031503n721c1583labb86a1e8abe7978@mail.gmail.com>
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John Rogers wrote: > Installing new kernel into /boot/GENERIC... done. > Moving /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old... done. > Moving /boot/GENERIC to /boot/kernel... done. > Removing schg flag from existing files... > > Then my connection to the server froze and I found the server rebooted > itself. After login I found it was 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE > #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006. > > Don't know why it rebooted, and my concern it: had it finished > upgrading? Probably not. > I looked into the upgrade.sh and found it should continue > working on files referred in old-index, new-index-nonkern, new-index. > However none of these files were found in the directory. Also I am > worried whether the schg flags were recovered. How can I check these? Sounds like a generic case of 'system crashed and recently created files weren't written to disk yet'. I'm really suspicious of the hardware here, but I'd suggest 1. mv /boot/kernel /boot/kernel.new 2. mv /boot/kernel.old /boot/kernel 3. reboot (back into 6.0-RELEASE) 4. Run the script again and hope that it manages to finish installing everything this time. Colin Percival
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