From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 28 10:14:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E3D106566B for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:14:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@d2ux.net) Received: from h1907788.stratoserver.net (h1907788.stratoserver.net [85.214.252.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5209A8FC0C for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h1907788.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53528401C002 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:46:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from h1907788.stratoserver.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (h1907788.stratoserver.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id APSLYkNm7B1s for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:46:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compaq (p5DDA9501.dip.t-dialin.net [93.218.149.1]) by h1907788.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3AB401C001 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:46:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:46:43 +0200 From: Matthias Petermann To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20120728114643.ff0b536f.matthias@d2ux.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:14:54 -0000 Hello, currently I experienced an unexpected behavior of the FreeBSD bsdinstall installer. Some weeks ago I could use it sucessfully to create a jail environment with # bsdinstall jail /jails/myjail Today I tried to repeat this on another system(2) and it fails after the selection of the to-be-used mirror. Also re-trying it on the original system(1) leads to an error but a different one. Since then I upgraded from 9.0-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 using freebsd-update. Here are the symptoms: (2) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64: After typing "bsdinstall..." it brings me directly to the mirror selection list, but after selecting a mirror it aborts with an error message "An installation step has beeen aborted. Would you like to restart the installer or exit the installer?" (1) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 i386: After typing "bsdinstall..." it brings me to the distribution select dialog. After selection of the distribution set, it shows the mirror selection dialog. After selecting a mirror it aborts with a fetch error "Error while fetching /base.txz: Invalid URL scheme" I tried different mirrors, too. And they all seem to be basically online - pointing an FTP client to them showed no errors. So what am I doing wrong? Does bsdinstall maintain some hidden configuration file which may influence its behavior? The environment variables mentioned in bsdinstall(8) are not set on both systems. Or is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE-p3 which appears different on amd64 and i386 systems? It would be great if anyone could validate this. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann