Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 03:21:10 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexey Karagodov <karagodov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net> Subject: Re: RC2 binary upgrade: var/empty: no chmod allowed Message-ID: <20060503072110.GA2995@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <c7aff4ef0605022314y1003e2cdl7ee0a60428e7c8cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <44582959.3020609@swbell.net> <c7aff4ef0605022314y1003e2cdl7ee0a60428e7c8cf@mail.gmail.com>
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--J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:14:28AM +0400, Alexey Karagodov wrote: > chflags -R noschg /var/empty You missed the point..the claim is that sysinstall barfs when it encounters a /var/empty that is legitimately schg. Kris P.S. Don't top-post =20 > 2006/5/3, Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net>: > > > >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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >=20 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEWFnlWry0BWjoQKURAsHLAJ46zBB4mE68HJ06XZpVghDkrD5NcwCcC+o3 Ab72fO1uvGMV9j13KI/zf6o= =UAOO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--
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