Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-06 Thread Colin Percival
John Rogers wrote: /boot/kernel/aic.ko ... /boot/kernel/zlib.ko It looks like lots of kernel modules weren't installed (or, more likely, were installed but glitched when the system rebooted). If you don't expect to use any of these modules, it's probably safe to ignore this; otherwise, you'll

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread John Rogers
Hi, you are right - there was indeed the following messages: kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE And this message appeared starting from the date I ran CFS, an encrypted filesystem. It's a half year old WesternDigital250GB disk. I now disabled dma

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread Colin Percival
John Rogers wrote: Before I saw your reply, I just manually created those old-index etc by following upgrade.sh, and ran the rest of the upgrade.sh from the Removing schg flag from existing files... part. After that I have ran portupgrade, portsnap etc, and so far don't see problem. Do I

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread John Rogers
freebsd-update IDS found the following. Do I need to grab the kernel files for 6.1? If so, how? I did not find them in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/ Thank you, The following files, which are distributed as part of the binary release, have been modified

binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread John Rogers
Hi, I was upgrading following Colin's FreeBSD 6.0 to FreeBSD 6.1 binary upgrade http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ but it failed. I installed freebsd 6.0 release and only used Colin's freebsd-update to updae before. There is plenty of free space on that partition. What do

Re: **SPAM** binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
John Rogers wrote: Hi, I was upgrading following Colin's FreeBSD 6.0 to FreeBSD 6.1 binary upgrade http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ but it failed. I installed freebsd 6.0 release and only used Colin's freebsd-update to updae before. There is plenty of free space on

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
Oops, I forgot to edit the subject line before hitting 'Send' -- for some reason, SpamAssassin thought that John's original email needed to be marked as **SPAM**. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: **SPAM** binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
I also wonder why these binary update and upgrade are not legitimized in the freebsd core distribution. An important reason why linux is used by more is its easy update solution similar to Microsoft's Windows Update. Sure make world is fun especially to developers. But providing

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread John Rogers
Wow, I did not expect Colin's direct reply - and so prompt! Thanks, and great to know binary updates will be foreseeable. I actually already did it again, since it doesn't make sense to binary upgrade all those source files, I renamed /usr/src to something else, and this greatly reduced the

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
John Rogers wrote: Installing new kernel into /boot/GENERIC... done. Moving /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old... done. Moving /boot/GENERIC to /boot/kernel... done. Removing schg flag from existing files... Then my connection to the server froze and I found the server rebooted itself.