Download again the tar files from official mirrors and try again the upgrade.
2010/6/1 Uwe Dippel <udip...@uniten.edu.my>: > Joachim Schipper <joachim <at> joachimschipper.nl> writes: > >> Just untarring the release should work, but it's still odd. At least > the >> md5sum of pfctl matches what I just downloaded, so that seems >> fine; did you actually use *that* tarball, though? (Note that the >> "right" pfctl binary is 500856 bytes long.) >> >> Are you sure that you upgraded the right disk? > > Yep. > > When I untar the files (I have them locally on a webserver: > ftp://metalab.uniten.edu.my/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/ > all files come out perfectly well, as above. I did the upgrades using this > URL; I am sure it were these files, because they only exist once locally > (the speed with which the updates were done is proof that I used these local > resources, downloaded by myself). In the Upgrade procedure I only added the > (internal) IP for that server, accepting all else. And it can't be 4.6 that > I used, kind of, because the installed (upgraded) kernel is 4.7. > I need to repeat, this is a remote production machine with serial access. I > have no desire ever to do anything not along clear procedures, and I > followed the Upgrade Guide 4.6->4.7 meticulously (system administration is > part of my job description), even ticking off point after point on the > printout of the upgrade guide. > So something was done to the files, at least they have the new time stamp, > and some files have actually been installed correctly (kernels); as the > hashsums show. So, finally, I *was* in the right directory and installed to > the correct disk. > Here are the kernels, on the first machine, that has seemingly the > previous 'base' throughout: > # cksum -a sha256 bsd > SHA256 (bsd) = > e2af09ed48d1d94bec27aa4c18ffa6172d8435a190c3abecae53d26940ed9536 > # cksum -a sha256 bsd.sp > SHA256 (bsd.sp) = > a34175b766d6ea9cefcc0903efa51c4dc3d87018b1e2f85c2333133ed25e9ff4 > > Now I wonder if the problem was with the untar? Maybe all sets have not been > installed properly? Next, I will have to identify for each and every set, a > sample file, and check if it is the previous one or the recent one. > > Very, very strange ... > > Thanks so much, you did actually help me a step further, > > Uwe
