On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 14:20, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 13:41, Patrick Welche <pr...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 01:28:15PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > Clean installation from the same ISO file is fine, so it probably was > > > sysupgrade failure induced by the different tar. > > > > You did quite some detective work! (Yes, I don't use sysupgrade...) > > It's one of the things you get accustomed to, I have been using it for > ages without many problems; occasionally they do occur, e.g. in > September some bump in the shared libraries stopped the final > etcupdate stages from completing properly; in that case it was enough > to repeat the process and all was well. In this case I probably will > update manually.
> > BTW in case anybody is interested, I tried the abovementioned ISO - > 9.99.37 - to install as a guest under XCP-NG, which one should have > been aware by this time is the fully functional free version of what > used to be XenServer. Using UEFI mode I was even able to get X running > with the modesetting driver (obviously the DRI{2} bits do not load). > The only problem so far is with the mouse; the cursor somehow only > goes along the edges of the screen in a rather unpredictable manner - > both on the Xorchestra console and the Xcp-ng center. To complete the analysis, I tried to upgrade a 9.99.36 system to 9.99.37 by booting off the ISO file I previously used for the clean installation described above. It failed in a similar was as with sysupgrade : ls -l /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin | egrep 'wheel[ \t]*0' | wc -l 91 (the clean installation returns 0). It gets less clear after this... But at the moment I can't see how to upgrade to 9.99.37. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Patrick > > > > -- > ---- -- ----