Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:23:32 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Bastien Semene <bsemene@cyanide-studio.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Freebsd-update]cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory Message-ID: <AANLkTik6%2BJf=xxTrO8r03tJcE3QptG=QUXf_XbAowO%2B7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA34105.7050008@cyanide-studio.com> References: <4CA34105.7050008@cyanide-studio.com>
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bastien Semene <bsemene@cyanide-studio.com> wrote: > =A0Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade a system from 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE, but I hav= e > the following (non critical) errors : > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > This line appears hundred of times. > After that, freebsd-update claims that many files are non existent in the > new version and ask to delete them : > > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or director= y > Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done. > > The following file will be removed, as it no longer exists in > FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE: /boot/device.hints > Does this look reasonable (y/n)? n > > I have updated other systems without any difficulty (from the same 8.0 pa= tch > level to 8.1). > > I tried to delete /var/db/freebsd-update folder, but it changes nothing. > Same error. > I found older posts with people searching in the code which function did = the > error, but because everything was fine with the same context on other > systems I think freebsd-update is mislead (it seems to miss the name of t= he > file) at some point. > > Does anyone have some hints or direction to follow ? I reported this a while ago and try to get in touch with Colin Percival with no luck. I finally could afford a fresh install. > > Thanks, > > -- > Bastien Semene > Administrateur R=E9seau& =A0Syst=E8me > > Cyanide Studio - FRANCE > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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