Bingo! You are right on, as /home is an nfs mount. Unmounting it allows sysupgrade to work.
Thanks! Dave Raymond On 6/17/20, Florian Obser <[email protected]> wrote: > Wild guess, /home is an nfs mount or mounted read-only? That's not going to > work unfortunately. > > > On 17 June 2020 22:23:13 CEST, "Raymond, David" <[email protected]> > wrote: >>I am trying to upgrade a bunch of machines from 6.6 to 6.7 using >>sysupgrade and I get the message >> >>/usr/sbin/sysupgrade[136]: cannot create SHA256.sig: Permission denied >> >>These are AMD64 machines on wired internet at my university. >>Sysupgrade worked fine on a laptop and on an AMD desktop using my home >>internet provider. >> >>Any hints? Might there be some protocol that is blocked by the >>university network? When I boot bsd.rd directly (after having been >>locally verified), the upgrade works fine. >> >>Dave Raymond > > -- > Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse poor formating. > -- David J. Raymond [email protected] http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond
