On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:23:15PM -0400, trondd wrote: > On Wed, June 30, 2021 5:28 am, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > Hello list! > > > > I just upgraded one of our lab machines from 6.8 to 6.9 > > (amd64), and our lab environment is closed to the Internet, > > so using an HTTP proxy is required to reach out. > > > > I have set http_proxy, ftp_proxy and https_proxy in > > /etc/login.conf, the default class, but it is apparently > > not used by rc.firstboot after sysupgrade. > > > > With the new installer in 6.9 rc.firstboot seems to be > > a background process that hangs because of this, so when I > > logged in as root after remote upgrade I resolved the stalemate > > by first killing an ftp job serving fw_update, then a similar > > download job serving syspatch, and waited until the not updated > > kernel was relinked. > > Then I could run fw_update and syspatch manually. > > > > Is there a better / proper way to set a HTTP/HTTPS proxy > > for sysupgrade? > > > > Cheers > > -- > > > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB > > > > I simply echo the export statements of the proxy environment variables to > /etc/rc.firstime before reboot. The installer will always append to the > file so fw_update will be added after the variables are exported.
I will try to remember to do that the next time. Thanks for the hint! Would that be a welcome addition to the installer to do this automatically? > > The ftp process will timeout in, I think, 5 minutes. That is a long time, > but you're not going to be hung there forever. > > Tim. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
