On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Peter Lai <cowb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello. I tried to upgrade from 10.0-RELEASE: # freebsd-update -r > 10.3-RELEASE upgrade > > ... > > # freebsd-update install > > ... > > # reboot > > ... > > # freebsd-update install > > Installing updates...Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) Now I have: > > # freebsd-version -ku > > 10.3-RELEASE-p4 > > 10.0-RELEASE It's not looking good. How to fix? PS. In /var/log/messages > I see "(gunzip), uid 0: exited on signal 11" > > And yes: > > # gunzip > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Hi Sergey: > > I ran into this problem the week before you did: > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-July/085115.html > Because just about all of the binaries were trashed (including /lib, > /[s]bin, /usr/lib, /usr/[s]bin files were truncated to 0), I had to > /rescue/nc > base.txz (where I fetched base.txz from the ftp site in > the 10.3-RELEASE distribution), then /rescue/tar -zxvf base.txz into a > directory, then tar | tar each of /lib and so on to get my binaries > back (apparently /rescue does not have a statically compiled cpio). > > After sending the above to the mailing list I went ahead and replaced > the kernel that the broken freebsd-update install installed with the > one from 10.3-RELEASE (from the distribution base.txz:boot/kernel), > which made the system entirely binary 10.3-RELEASE then I was able to > freebsd-update to FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-p6 with no problems. Note that > the initial freebsd-update from 10.0 also severely trashed my /etc, I > had to restore master.passwd and friends! (many of /etc files were > also truncated to 0), even though the merge process seemed to complete > ok before the broken freebsd-update install. > _______________________________________________ > > I just experienced the same thing. Sent this to freebsd-questions last night, no response yet, so thought I would also try here on this thread. Here is my disaster from last night: *Following this guide:* https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html # uname -a FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Sep 15 14:35:52 UTC 2014 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 *Run this command:* # freebsd-update -r 10.4-RELEASE upgrade # freebsd-update install reboot *Success...system came back up as 10.4* # uname -a FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Nov 14 09:43:55 UTC 2017 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 *Run this command one more time per the guide above:* # freebsd-update install Installing updates...Segmentation fault (core dumped) Segmentation fault (core dumped) Segmentation fault (core dumped) Segmentation fault (core dumped) Segmentation fault (core dumped) *System is totally down and had to recover from snaphot* *What on earth happened here?* _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
