Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:19:43 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Krause <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade to 6.3R failed (with freebsd-update.sh) Message-ID: <20080228091943.GA36051@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <47C66FCB.8090902@chef-ingenieur.de> References: <47C66FCB.8090902@chef-ingenieur.de>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:24:43AM +0100, Thomas Krause wrote: > Dear list, > > as described in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html > I tried a binary upgrade to 6.3R. But the command > > # sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade > > failed with > > 10....2520....2530....2540....2550....2560....2570....2580....2590....2600....2610....2620....2630....2640... > done. > Applying patches... done. > Fetching 1587 files... failed. > > Any ideas how to perform the upgrade? Does freebsd-update use ftp://ftp.freebsd.org at all? If so, I'm willing to bet the failure is caused by the FTP server being overloaded. With the announcement of 7.0-RELEASE, people are hammering the server; the few times I've tried to FTP to it, it's been returning "maximum number of connections exceeded" or something along those lines. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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