From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 11:05:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44D0106566C; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF958FC16; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E5DBF2218950; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:13 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <47C691A9000096B7C4EEE3@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD89C21B1EB6; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:13 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A86C2218807; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:13 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E6B993EB; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:12 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:12 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20080228104912.GC2754@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Jeremy Chadwick , Thomas Krause , FreeBSD Stable References: <47C66FCB.8090902@chef-ingenieur.de> <20080228091943.GA36051@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080228091943.GA36051@eos.sc1.parodius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Upgrade to 6.3R failed (with freebsd-update.sh) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:05:21 -0000 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:19:43AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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. It is not using ftp.freebsd.org, but a quick chat to cperciva@ showed that his servers were upgrading about one machine per minute, so that is quite an amount of HTTP requests he is getting. I would either keep trying (use a caching proxy to keep your results) or try again later. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/