On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:19:43AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:24:43AM +0100, Thomas Krause wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > as described in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html > > I tried a binary upgrade to 6.3R. But the command > > > > # sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade > > > > failed with > > > > 10....2520....2530....2540....2550....2560....2570....2580....2590....2600....2610....2620....2630....2640... > > > > done. > > Applying patches... done. > > Fetching 1587 files... failed. > > > > Any ideas how to perform the upgrade? > > Does freebsd-update use ftp://ftp.freebsd.org at all? If so, I'm > willing to bet the failure is caused by the FTP server being overloaded. > With the announcement of 7.0-RELEASE, people are hammering the server; > the few times I've tried to FTP to it, it's been returning "maximum > number of connections exceeded" or something along those lines.
It is not using ftp.freebsd.org, but a quick chat to cperciva@ showed that his servers were upgrading about one machine per minute, so that is quite an amount of HTTP requests he is getting. I would either keep trying (use a caching proxy to keep your results) or try again later. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
