Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Toohey
On 6/06/2010, at 1:27 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: Philip Guenther guenther at gmail.com writes: You now have and now it seems the core discussion is just about whether (or where) an additional rm -rf /usr/obj/* should be added to help people that know enough to set up the source tree for

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-06 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 05 12:25:03, Uwe Dippel wrote: Philip Guenther guenther at gmail.com writes: Please point to the part of the Upgrade Guide which talks about building from source, untarring the src tar file, or applying errata. I can't seem to find any such reference, but I'm sure it's in there

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
patrick keshishian wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: I'm still curious how anything left in /usr/obj can be anything but a possible problem after updating system binaries and sources to a new release. especially for people who are just

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacob Meuser wrote: ... On 5/06/2010, at 7:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: a patch to the upgrade guide would be wrong. The problem is the patching process (a special case of the userland build process) assumes a clean obj dir. This has nothing to do with upgrades. If you try to rebuild the same

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR ARE DOING, INSTALL A NEW SNAPSHOT Theo de Raadt wrote: Miod, Dale, Kurt, Kettenis and I am quite often the first people to deal with bumping systems forward over bumps. Some bumps are so difficult that after they are done the rest of us jump over them using

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Toohey
On 5/06/2010, at 5:51 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: I'm still curious how anything left in /usr/obj can be anything but a possible problem after updating system binaries and sources to a new release. especially for

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 04 16:22:35, Uwe Dippel wrote: Jacob Meuser jakemsr at sdf.lonestar.org writes: oh good grief. you had a dirty /usr/obj. just look at the pfctl snippet of the log you posted. do you see pfctl being built? do you see pfctl being installed from /usr/obj? Oh, yes. So the

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 06:48:18PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: But I don't understand what he's doing differently to me. A new release is out, you want to upgrade from the previous release to the new one, and then you want to apply the errata patches. Look, there are several flaws to the way

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Toohey
On 5/06/2010, at 7:45 PM, Jan Stary wrote: On Jun 04 16:22:35, Uwe Dippel wrote: Jacob Meuser jakemsr at sdf.lonestar.org writes: oh good grief. you had a dirty /usr/obj. just look at the pfctl snippet of the log you posted. do you see pfctl being built? do you see pfctl being installed

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 01:49:46AM -0400, Tony Abernethy wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: ... On 5/06/2010, at 7:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: a patch to the upgrade guide would be wrong. The problem is the patching process (a special case of the userland build process) assumes a clean obj dir.

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Toohey
On 5/06/2010, at 8:14 PM, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 06:48:18PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: But I don't understand what he's doing differently to me. A new release is out, you want to upgrade from the previous release to the new one, and then you want to apply the errata

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 01:49:46AM -0400, Tony Abernethy wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: ... On 5/06/2010, at 7:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: a patch to the upgrade guide would be wrong. The problem is the patching process (a special case of the userland build process) assumes

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:13:19AM -0400, Tony Abernethy wrote: All I need to break any automated system you devise is to have some programs that I compile myself and use the system directories to hold the sources etc. then you are on your own, not someone who is just following the

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:13:19AM -0400, Tony Abernethy wrote: All I need to break any automated system you devise is to have some programs that I compile myself and use the system directories to hold the sources etc. then you are on your own, not someone who is just

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Uwe Dippel
Tony Abernethy tony at servasoftware.com writes: Might be better to read and comprehend ``man patch'' before assuming limitations on the scope of patch's reach. It is always so nice to trample on the person lying on the ground, ain't it! Where in 'man patch' is the underlying problem

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
wtf are you talking about tony? have you even read the upgrade guide? have you read any of this thread, at all, or did you see some long thread on misc@ and decide to jump in? we have users that say they follow the install and upgrade guides to the letter and they get fucked. there is a

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacob Meuser wrote: we have users that say they follow the install and upgrade guides to the letter and they get fucked. there is a problem. they don't even know /usr/obj exists. What they say. What they did. Two different things. There's lots of things they do not know about. I fail to

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Dexter Tomisson
what a totally useless bunch of misc traffic only because a drunk OpenBSD user did not remove /usr/obj before building shit

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Brad Tilley
Theo de Raadt wrote: If [you] don't know what you are doing, install a new snapshot. We do this frequently. Works very well. bsd.rd makes it easy to move to a new snapshot. We buy -release CDs too, but seldom open them. Brad

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Uwe Dippel
Philip Guenther guenther at gmail.com writes: Please point to the part of the Upgrade Guide which talks about building from source, untarring the src tar file, or applying errata. I can't seem to find any such reference, but I'm sure it's in there somewhere, because you originally said that

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 06:48:18PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: On 5/06/2010, at 5:51 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: I'm still curious how anything left in /usr/obj can be anything but a possible problem after

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Guenther guenther at gmail.com writes: Please point to the part of the Upgrade Guide which talks about building from source, untarring the src tar file, or applying errata. I can't seem to find any such reference, but

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
I was following the Upgrade Guide to the dot, following Applying patches in OpenBSD to the dot, This thread perhaps wouldn't have happened if you hadn't waited until your 13th message to describe that last part. You now have and now it seems the core discussion is just about whether (or

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread William Boshuck
Perhaps every section of the FAQ begin with an exhortation to read the entire FAQ. I am flabbergasted that someone who runs a 'production' box would put themeselves in this position.

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Uwe Dippel
Philip Guenther guenther at gmail.com writes: You now have and now it seems the core discussion is just about whether (or where) an additional rm -rf /usr/obj/* should be added to help people that know enough to set up the source tree for building/patching by untaring src.tar.gz but don't

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
So, no diff here, but a suggestion: If one needs to avoid stale stuff lying around in /usr/obj at applying a patch, the only logical consequence is, to clean out all /obj totally, even before applying a single patch. If I am correct, the instructions should be clear for

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: OK, I've tried it and cannot reproduce what you see. I've never done an upgrade from bsd.rd before, so wanted to give it a go. Obviously something different with your set-up, or where you got the files from,

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: 5. reboot after patching - old files and wrong timestamps - bummer, as Theo might say. Sorry, guys, (too quick as too often), just cat-grep pfctl shows where the old one comes in: pfctl: pf already enabled # ls -l # ls -l

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread patrick keshishian
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: OK, I've tried it and cannot reproduce what you see. I've never done an upgrade from bsd.rd before, so wanted to give it a go. Obviously

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Richard Toohey
On 4/06/2010, at 6:41 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: OK, I've tried it and cannot reproduce what you see. I've never done an upgrade from

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: you mean applying the errata47.html patches? If so, are you certain your source tree is tagged OPENBSD_4_7 and not anything else? Do I understand you correctly? I am not building releases. I am installing/downloading

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I think we are getting closer, aren't we? So, NOTHING to do with the actual upgrade, is it? No absolutely nothing. I withdraw the subject with regret. At least the 'base47'-part thereof. Or the

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Eric Faurot
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:55:53PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: you mean applying the errata47.html patches? If so, are you certain your source tree is tagged OPENBSD_4_7 and not anything else? Do I understand you

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread patrick keshishian
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: you mean applying the errata47.html patches? If so, are you certain your source tree is tagged OPENBSD_4_7 and not anything else? Do I understand

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Where did you get those tar-balls from? Those are most likely not 4.7 sources. I gave the potential link and their md5 sums further up. Our link here is sooo slooow; I *am* currently downloading the archives from

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Eric Faurot e...@faurot.net wrote: Don't you have old stuff lying around in /usr/obj that gets installed over your new binaries? That's probably the critical question now. Though, sorry to say, there is nowhere written that you have to rm -Rf it, when you -

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Richard Toohey
On 4/06/2010, at 8:33 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Eric Faurot e...@faurot.net wrote: Don't you have old stuff lying around in /usr/obj that gets installed over your new binaries? That's probably the critical question now. Though, sorry to say, there is nowhere

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:40:28PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Where did you get those tar-balls from? Those are most likely not 4.7 sources. I gave the potential link and their md5 sums further up. Our link here

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:33:34PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: When you are under 'quality control', and responsible for the uptime of a system, you would never do anything out of the scope of instructions, naturally. especially not some rm -Rf * in a directory of your arbitrary choice. ;) if

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:33:34PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: When you are under 'quality control', and responsible for the uptime of a system, you would never do anything out of the scope of instructions, naturally. especially not some rm -Rf * in a directory of your arbitrary choice. ;)

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Lars Nooden
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Jan Stary wrote: 'rm -rf /usr/obj/*' is not your arbitrary choice, it's a documented step when building the system. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldUserland Also documented there is keeping /usr/obj/ in its own partition and using 'newfs' to zap everything more

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
Jacob Meuser jakemsr at sdf.lonestar.org writes: oh good grief. you had a dirty /usr/obj. just look at the pfctl snippet of the log you posted. do you see pfctl being built? do you see pfctl being installed from /usr/obj? Oh, yes. So the blame is on my side, I guess. Mea culpa maxima! I

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Tony Abernethy
Might be better to read and comprehend ``man patch'' before assuming limitations on the scope of patch's reach. -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Uwe Dippel Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 11:23 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject:

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:22:35PM +, Uwe Dippel wrote: Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it? you can't supply a patch? can't even attempt one? all these posts and time

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Henning Brauer
* Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com [2010-06-04 18:26]: I didn't know that the object directories need to be cleaned manually. this should not be needed assuming system time didn't jump. it is still good practice tho. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services,

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Nick Holland
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:22:35PM +, Uwe Dippel wrote: Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it? you can't supply a patch? can't even attempt one? all

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Bryan Irvine
snip Clearing the obj directory as part of the upgrade is like flushing your toilet based on the date -- may help, but after a while, things start to stink. It isn't the general (or proper) solution. oops. What's the recommended procedure for this? -B

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: ... Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it? Please point to the part of the Upgrade Guide which talks about

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Richard Toohey
On 5/06/2010, at 7:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:22:35PM +, Uwe Dippel wrote: Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it? you can't

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:29:57AM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: On 5/06/2010, at 7:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:22:35PM +, Uwe Dippel wrote: Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a remark pointing out

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:31:22PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: I'm still curious how anything left in /usr/obj can be anything but a possible problem after updating system binaries and sources to a new

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: I'm still curious how anything left in /usr/obj can be anything but a possible problem after updating system binaries and sources to a new release. especially for people who are just following the directions as

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org writes: A chit-chat on a public mailing list isn't going to find this supposed bug. Why discuss it? Why not just keep prove it happened. Yes, Theo. Though: How? This is what I tried to find out. I showed the list if files. Do you assume I tinkered

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org writes: A chit-chat on a public mailing list isn't going to find this supposed bug. Why discuss it? Why not just keep prove it happened. Yes, Theo. Though: How? This is what I tried to find out. I showed the list if files. Do you assume I

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Tony Abernethy
Uwe Dippel wrote: drill it down to some 70 files being of the previous version. It might be tiring, but what evidence do you want? The error message(s) you are suppressing (or maybe didn't see) About the only way you can get some files but not all files from a tarball is some fatal error in

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Tony Abernethy t...@servasoftware.com wrote: The error message(s) you are suppressing (or maybe didn't see) About the only way you can get some files but not all files from a tarball is some fatal error in the extraction of the tarball. Any such error tends to

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Toohey
On 3/06/2010, at 8:42 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: [cut] No, that seriously turns me off. I have given everything in detail that I came across, I have not been silent about any additional message, any unusual activity. I have stated a few times that I followed the upgrade procedure to the dot, I

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 03 16:42:58, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Tony Abernethy t...@servasoftware.com wrote: The error message(s) you are suppressing (or maybe didn't see) About the only way you can get some files but not all files from a tarball is some fatal error in the

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Toohey
On 3/06/2010, at 9:02 PM, Richard Toohey wrote: On 3/06/2010, at 8:42 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: [cut] No, that seriously turns me off. I have given everything in detail that I came across, I have not been silent about any additional message, any unusual activity. I have stated a few times that

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-06-03, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: No, that seriously turns me off. I have given everything in detail that I came across, The problem is obviously relating to something that you didn't come across otherwise you wouldn't be posting here - if you can post logs this will give more

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
Getting closer ... Extracted the archive being used for the upgrade to amd64 into my user-directory and calculated all 7484 md5 for the files included in base47, and redirected those into a file. Then, I calculated all the md5 for the files *installed* in the upgraded machine; the file names

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
Now, with $ diff md5sums_archive md5sums_install | grep ^ | cut -d ' ' -f2 these are the files different on amd64, between what the archive supplied, and what the installer left behind: ./usr/lib/libasn1.so.17.0 ./usr/lib/libcom_err.so.17.0 ./usr/lib/libcrypto.so.18.0

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/01/10 23:25, Uwe Dippel wrote: ... There is one more machine (amd64) that needs to be upgraded. Before I do this, I rather solicit suggestions on how to log the upgrade process, debug it, or otherwise. serial console. Log everything from the first chars out the serial port to the

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
Nick Holland nick at holland-consulting.net writes: There is one more machine (amd64) that needs to be upgraded. Before I do this, I rather solicit suggestions on how to log the upgrade process, debug it, or otherwise. serial console. Log everything from the first chars out the serial

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:42:53PM +, Uwe Dippel wrote: Nick Holland nick at holland-consulting.net writes: There is one more machine (amd64) that needs to be upgraded. Before I do this, I rather solicit suggestions on how to log the upgrade process, debug it, or otherwise.

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Based on the latest results, the problem seems to exist only for most of the /sbin files. So, the upgrade runs through as programmed. With a public mirror, it will take hours. I really hope SHA256 is good enough to confirm the integrity of the archives. Serial console seems a good

Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-01 Thread Uwe Dippel
[I consider it better to open a new thread, since the title, and part of the content, of the previous one was superseded.] Having upgraded one machine (amd64) from 4.6 to 4.7, using the normal upgrade procedure as outlined in http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade47.html to the dot, after the reboot