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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:45:31 +0200
From:      George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>
To:        jflowers <jflowers@ezo.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/EC2 -9.0-Current 2011-01-01 (ami-f4db2a9d)
Message-ID:  <CANcjpOAfBKUszGMW-kuAu2pbJ3dahD4GUD4yXqW3%2BJfytuEQqQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121217155015.M90220@ezo.net>
References:  <20121217155015.M90220@ezo.net>

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The ami you are using is obsolete, according to [1] ami-5339bb3a is
what you probably want.
I am using pkgng with no problems, just launch the ami in a micro
instance. No need for workarounds.

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:19 PM, jflowers <jflowers@ezo.net> wrote:
> I'm working my way through a re-education for EC2.  I read a lot of posts
> but find it confusing to keep up with the current state of the art as to
> what information is applicable and what is not:
>
> 1. I had convinced myself that I was being told that I had to use a Windows
> instance but then found this AMI.  It launched for T1.micro, always with the
> note that it was available for the free-tier which is important to me.  Have
> I been too optimistic or is it, indeed, running with the free-tier
> restrictions?
>
> 2. Unfortunately, after I had spent a couple of hours on installing ports, I
> installed pkgng.  It seemed to install OK but then when I ran pkg2ng it
> didn't work throwing the following error message twice.
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "Quiet" referenced from COPY
> relocation in /usr/sbin/pkg_info.
>
> and then ...
>
> Conversion has been successfully finished
> Your old packages database has been moved to: /var/db/pkg.bak
>
> There is no sign of a pkg.bak anywhere on the machine and, of course, pkg_*
> tools don't work. /var/db/pkg is still fully populated with what looks like
> the correct files. There is also no perl installed
>
> So my question is "Is there any way I can recover pkg_* tools or get pkgng
> to function?  With only a couple of hours in it, I'm tempted to just start
> over and use one of the RELEASE AMIs.
>
> 3. I also noted a thread where Colin Percival talked about an initial launch
> as c1.medium to set things up and then restarting as t1.micro.  Won't this
> trigger a minimum bill for 1 month being added to my free-tier $0.00?
>
> Thanks for any help responses to get me pointed in the right direction.
>
> --
> Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net>
>
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