From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 16:07:24 2009 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 803AE1065670 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp244.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp244.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4829A8FC0C for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9F2BF22C24F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:07:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 00E742369E3 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:07:22 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:07:18 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Message-ID: Thread-Topic: freebsd-update fetching files failed Thread-Index: Acl6UABu7+RiC+TRVEmSR+17DZU32Q== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: freebsd-update fetching files failed 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: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:07:25 -0000 a funny thing happened on wat to 7.1 today (from 7.0-p6): # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: ... Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching files from 7.0-RELEASE for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 17537 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100.... ... 4120....4130....4140. done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 12842 files... failed. failed? at this point i couldn't think of anything else to do but try again: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: ... Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching files from 7.0-RELEASE for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 7292 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110 ... 2030....2040....2050....2060....2070....2080....2090....2100.. done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 5549 files... done. Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done. so i'm assuming a network error during the download of the fetching files in the first attempt. but... it seems odd. if 17537 patches were downloaded...done, i.e. sucessfully, how come the second attempt downloads an additional 7292 patches? the road continues... The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/hosts Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts manually... so then i go through the manual merging of config files and later i am asked to confirm the changes: The following changes, which occurred between FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE have been merged into /etc/hosts: ... Does this look reasonable (y/n)? n i answered 'n' and freebsd-update turned its back on me like a huffy teenager. if it didn't want to know the truth, why did it ask? a parting message to suggest what i might do next would have been welcome.