On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:14:28AM +0400, Alexey Karagodov wrote: > chflags -R noschg /var/empty
You missed the point..the claim is that sysinstall barfs when it encounters a /var/empty that is legitimately schg. Kris P.S. Don't top-post > 2006/5/3, Martin Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >Hello everyone, > > > >When BETA4 was released, I installed it on a very old machine of mine, > >and tried doing a binary upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-BETA4. I got > >an error almost immediately that it failed to write because it couldn't > >chmod var/empty (due to the schg flag being set). I also had other > >problems which in retrospect were likely pilot error. Around that time, > >a bunch of other stuff came up and I let the matter drop. > > > >I just binary upgraded my 6.1-BETA4 installation to 6.1-RC2 and ran into > >the same thing. I was able to work around it by using the holographic > >shell to chflags /var/empty so that the installer could write to it, > >which it does when I retry the install. > > > >BTW - I am doing a custom distribution set including base, doc, games, > >info, man, and the GENERIC kernel. Everything else I install from > >either a local cvsup mirror or a package build machine. > > > >Has anyone else seen this? I can't rule out pilot error here. > > > >Thanks, > >Marty > >_______________________________________________ > >[email protected] mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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