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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
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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
>
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