From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 06:14:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7169D16A400 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 06:14:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karagodov@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DFE43D48 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 06:14:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from karagodov@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id e30so119273pya for ; Tue, 02 May 2006 23:14:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=b0R9PzN0mDJxa3yLLSe1cK32BGiL7tdIqKqWeZhzO4vB3EehXCAqC+YgiO6TjNwVFAVmEkpF04zMrIVnRrbM680n8g3nHIdqSwGGRb+TpvqcRiGic+lBib9c6c9Vh8QV36040Vp49l+l8s3RZE+2u8SydeanfVRoeoTJHIk02pY= Received: by 10.35.91.15 with SMTP id t15mr8698pyl; Tue, 02 May 2006 23:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.135.15 with HTTP; Tue, 2 May 2006 23:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:14:28 +0400 From: "Alexey Karagodov" To: "Martin Jackson" In-Reply-To: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RC2 binary upgrade: var/empty: no chmod allowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:14:30 -0000 chflags -R noschg /var/empty 2006/5/3, Martin Jackson : > > 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" >