Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:14:28 +0400 From: "Alexey Karagodov" <karagodov@gmail.com> To: "Martin Jackson" <mhjacks@swbell.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RC2 binary upgrade: var/empty: no chmod allowed Message-ID: <c7aff4ef0605022314y1003e2cdl7ee0a60428e7c8cf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net> References: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net>
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chflags -R noschg /var/empty 2006/5/3, Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net>: > > Hello everyone, > > When BETA4 was released, I installed it on a very old machine of mine, > and tried doing a binary upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-BETA4. I got > an error almost immediately that it failed to write because it couldn't > chmod var/empty (due to the schg flag being set). I also had other > problems which in retrospect were likely pilot error. Around that time, > a bunch of other stuff came up and I let the matter drop. > > I just binary upgraded my 6.1-BETA4 installation to 6.1-RC2 and ran into > the same thing. I was able to work around it by using the holographic > shell to chflags /var/empty so that the installer could write to it, > which it does when I retry the install. > > BTW - I am doing a custom distribution set including base, doc, games, > info, man, and the GENERIC kernel. Everything else I install from > either a local cvsup mirror or a package build machine. > > Has anyone else seen this? I can't rule out pilot error here. > > Thanks, > Marty > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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