freebsd-update not checking disk space?
Hi, I tried to upgrade a server at work from 8.2-RELEASE-i386 to 9.0-RC1-i386 using freebsd-update.When running 'freebsd-update install' to install the new kernel, but that failed because there was insufficient disk space. This resulted in freebsd-update thinking everything is ok but left the kernel unbootable. From the screen capture: 10G# freebsd-update install Installing updates... /: write failed, filesystem is full install: ///boot/kernel/INS@SmmC: No space left on device install: ///boot/kernel/INS@lMJN: No space left on device install: ///boot/kernel/INS@ez1L: No space left on device install: ///boot/kernel/INS@D78d: No space left on device [... more patch files ..] install: ///boot/kernel/ng_bt3c.ko.symbols: No space left on device install: ///boot/kernel/ng_btsocket.ko: No space left on device [.. more destination files ..] These two types of messages are interleaved. It ends with: install: ///boot/INS@yqYd: No space left on device rmdir: ///boot/kernel: Directory not empty Kernel updates have been installed. Please reboot and run /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install again to finish installing updates. 10G# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630 502860-35840 108%/ So in reality the update never finished properly. More logs on request. Regards, René -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update not checking disk space?
On 10/25/11 00:52, René Ladan wrote: I tried to upgrade a server at work from 8.2-RELEASE-i386 to 9.0-RC1-i386 using freebsd-update.When running 'freebsd-update install' to install the new kernel, but that failed because there was insufficient disk space. This resulted in freebsd-update thinking everything is ok but left the kernel unbootable. Yes, this is a known issue in freebsd-update -- it needs to be much smarter about detecting and handling errors. Unfortunately I haven't had time to deal with this (and it's a lot of work). -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
