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Subject: 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE FTP upgrade fails, trashes /bin
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>Number:         18207
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE FTP upgrade fails, trashes /bin
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 25 09:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed May 30 22:56:08 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed May 30 22:56:48 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Justin Caron
>Release:        3.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
Can't get the output of uname -a because I no longer have a shell. 3.2-RELEASE upgrading to 4.0-RELEASE

>Description:
486 DX2
16M RAM
DLink ISA NIC
Generic ISA NIC
Box serves as a firewall, nothing fancy.

When upgrading to 4.0-RELEASE via a FTP upgrade in /stand/sysinstall (ftp.freebsd.org), system crashes during installation of binaries in /bin. I think I got 3 "core dump" messages before the installation process stopped half way through completion. When I reboot the kernel can no longer be loaded, if I load kernel.prev, or the generic kernel it loads and detects devices and then asks me for a shell. I tell it /bin/sh or /bin/csh but it says it can no longer find that file. The /bin directory and sh & csh files are there, I rebooted and listed the contents of the /bin directory. I have concluded that this problem corrupts the /bin directory in some way... probably because it crashes while it's attempting to upgrade those files.

>How-To-Repeat:
Install 3.2-RELEASE, upgrade binaries to 4.0-RELEASE via FTP upgrade in /stand/sysinstall (ftp.freebsd.org).  I've tried it twice, it happened both times, I don't have the patience to try it again.  :)
>Fix:
Nope, sorry.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: unfurl 
State-Changed-When: Wed May 30 22:56:08 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
This PR is just too old to be in here. There have been no more reported 
problems with subsequent releases. 



http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18207 
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