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From: Christoph Weber-Fahr <wefa@nxcon.tnd.lab.arcor.de>
Reply-To: Christoph Weber-Fahr <christoph.weber-fahr@arcor.net>
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Subject: 6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install
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>Number:         95165
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 31 20:00:31 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 02 10:37:46 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Mon Apr  3 20:10:20 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Christoph Weber-Fahr
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1 beta4
>Organization:
Arcor AG
>Environment:
no environment string available - system is unusable until 
completely reinstalled (or possibly manually repaired.)

HW is a HP Proliant DL380 G3

>Description:
	The upgrade function fails to complete and renders the system 
	unusable.
	I tried to binary ugrade a 4.11-RELEASE-p9 system which was 
	working fine.
	Precise problem is that is complains about a write error with
	the base install set. Looking at F2 reveals that the "error" is 
	a "permission denied" while trying to unpack/move /stand/gunzip
	One thing I noted is that the install set uses leading "/" - 	
	maybe it tries to overwrite the cd or the mfs instead of writing to 
	the target disk.

	whatever you do the base distribution install is aborted here and 
	sysinstall continues with the bin distribution.

	later it retries with the same problem. After reboot the system
	is unusable.

	trying the same with the 5.4-RELEASE cd works just fine.

	Another issue: apparently the beta4 ISOs do not conatain any 
	packages. for X.org sysinstall complains about a missing 
	index file.
		
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:



>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Andras Got <andrej@antiszoc.hu>
To: Christoph Weber-Fahr <christoph.weber-fahr@arcor.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/95165: 6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old
 install
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:21:58 +0200

 Hi,
 
 And of course you read the notes...
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#UPGRADE
 
 Of course this is for source upgrade, but there was a lotof changes since 4.9 and you should 
 reinstall for a 4.x. :(
 
 Regards,
 Andrej
 
 Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote:
 >> Number:         95165
 >> Category:       i386
 >> Synopsis:       6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       critical
 >> Priority:       medium
 >> Responsible:    freebsd-i386
 >> State:          open
 >> Quarter:        
 >> Keywords:       
 >> Date-Required:
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 31 20:00:31 GMT 2006
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Christoph Weber-Fahr
 >> Release:        FreeBSD 6.1 beta4
 >> Organization:
 > Arcor AG
 >> Environment:
 > no environment string available - system is unusable until 
 > completely reinstalled (or possibly manually repaired.)
 > 
 > HW is a HP Proliant DL380 G3
 > 
 >> Description:
 > 	The upgrade function fails to complete and renders the system 
 > 	unusable.
 > 	I tried to binary ugrade a 4.11-RELEASE-p9 system which was 
 > 	working fine.
 > 	Precise problem is that is complains about a write error with
 > 	the base install set. Looking at F2 reveals that the "error" is 
 > 	a "permission denied" while trying to unpack/move /stand/gunzip
 > 	One thing I noted is that the install set uses leading "/" - 	
 > 	maybe it tries to overwrite the cd or the mfs instead of writing to 
 > 	the target disk.
 > 
 > 	whatever you do the base distribution install is aborted here and 
 > 	sysinstall continues with the bin distribution.
 > 
 > 	later it retries with the same problem. After reboot the system
 > 	is unusable.
 > 
 > 	trying the same with the 5.4-RELEASE cd works just fine.
 > 
 > 	Another issue: apparently the beta4 ISOs do not conatain any 
 > 	packages. for X.org sysinstall complains about a missing 
 > 	index file.
 > 		
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >> Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >> Release-Note:
 >> Audit-Trail:
 >> Unformatted:
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 > 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 2 10:36:29 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
I am very sorry but this is not a Problem.  There were a lot 
of changes between 4.X and 6.X, amongst them differently 
coded bootloaders (/stand got removed for example) and 
different binary approaches which is why there is a migration 
guide. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95165 

From: "C. Weber" <cwf-ml@arcor.de>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, christoph.weber-fahr@arcor.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/95165: Please reopen this PR: (was: 6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386)
 fails upgrade and destroys old install)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:09:15 +0200

 Hello,
 
 please repone this PR. I gave it another hour, cloned
 one of my 5.4-RELEASE-p12 images and tested with that.
 
 And - suprise - the exact same error happened there, too.
 
 I didn't bother to check if X.org install fails there,
 too, but I wouldn't be surprised, either.
 
 As for those funny peole who try to convince me that
 /usr/src/UPDATING for version 6.1 should be read
 by someone before attempting to binary upgrade
 something else to that level, this logic is faulty on
 multiple levels. First, before the upgrade you do
 not have that file, second, it only talks about
 source upgrades (if I wanted to do those in this case
 I wouldn't go for binary) and third, a simple RTFM
 as an answer to a legitimate installation program
 option resulting in complete loss of data is
 simply unacceptable.
 
 Yes. we expect software to do the Right Thing -
 which it does not do here in any conceivable way.
 The Right Thing here is either to upgrade the system
 or to claim incompetence and refuse to do anything.
 
 Regards
 
 Christoph Weber-Fahr
 
 
 
 
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