From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 17:49:37 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 C499E1065672 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:49:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [83.235.67.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CC78FC1E for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pulstar.local (athedsl-4490271.home.otenet.gr [94.71.80.39]) by kane.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n8LHnZJV009459; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:49:35 +0300 Message-ID: <4AB7BCAF.1090407@otenet.gr> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:49:35 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= References: <1bd550a00909200916k1e0fcf3eib463884d1a68a411@mail.gmail.com> <1bd550a00909211029l30fccbc9k2a6c91a02860084@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1bd550a00909211029l30fccbc9k2a6c91a02860084@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: freebsd-update problem 8.0Beta1 to 8.0Beta4 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, 21 Sep 2009 17:49:37 -0000 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > 2009/9/20 Fernando Apesteguía : > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having some problems trying to update from FreeBSD 8.0 Beta1 to 8.0 Beta4. >> >> I upgraded from 7.2 to beta1 some time ago, using freebsd-update >> without problems. Later >> I did the same thing to reach beta2. Yesterday I tried it to get to >> beta3 but I have a bunch >> of errors like this one: >> >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> >> This is after the "preparing to download files" stage. I have plenty >> of disk space left on my hard disk. >> In an attempt to fix the problem I performed a rollback, so I went to >> beta1 again. This process seemed >> to work fine. However, whenever I try to upgrade to another higher >> release number, I get those errors. >> >> Listing the contents of the /var/db/freebsd-update/files/ directory >> shows a bunch of .gz files. >> What can be wrong? >> >> I've googled, but I haven't been able to find a solution. >> Any help? >> Thanks in advance. >> > > Nobody on this issue? > I've seen more people asking about this[1][2] but I couldn't find a solution. > > I made a back up of the /var/db/freebsd-update directory and renamed > the files and merge directories. freebsd-update created them again, > actually downloaded a bunch of files, but I got exactly the same > error. I followed exactly the same procedure (described in the > handbook) to go from 7.1 to 7.2 then to 8.0BETA1 and finally to > 8.0BETA2. What is wrong with freebsd-update? If I did something wrong, > how can I roll it back? > > Thanks for your time. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg214707.html > [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/190664.htm > > I encountered this once, and was not able to solve it, see here: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg186677.html It was definitely not a disk / partition free space problem and it manifested itself moving from RC to RELEASE. In the end, I did a binary upgrade from CD. It has behaved ever since.