Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:08:35 -0700 From: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> Cc: Bastien Semene <bsemene@cyanide-studio.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Freebsd-update]cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20100929150835.GA59311@Jason-Helfmans-MacBook-Pro.local> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik6%2BJf=xxTrO8r03tJcE3QptG=QUXf_XbAowO%2B7@mail.gmail.com> References: <4CA34105.7050008@cyanide-studio.com> <AANLkTik6%2BJf=xxTrO8r03tJcE3QptG=QUXf_XbAowO%2B7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:23:32PM +0200, Fernando Apesteguía thus spake: >On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bastien Semene ><bsemene@cyanide-studio.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to upgrade a system from 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE, but I have >> the following (non critical) errors : >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> 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 directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory >> 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 patch >> 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 the >> 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 Réseau& Système >> >> Cyanide Studio - FRANCE >> What is the exact command line you are running that gets this error?
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