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Michelle Sullivan

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Aug 3, 2016, 11:51:43 AM8/3/16
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As per the subject...


[root@cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
metadata is corrupt.
[root@cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
[root@cheetah ~]# mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update
[root@cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
metadata is corrupt.
[root@cheetah ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD cheetah.sorbs.net 9.2-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15 #0:
Mon Nov 3 20:31:29 UTC 2014
ro...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64


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Yass Amed

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Aug 4, 2016, 2:54:18 PM8/4/16
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On 08/04/2016 07:00 AM, freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:51:13 +0200
> From: Michelle Sullivan<mich...@sorbs.net>
> To: St?phane Dupille via freebsd-stable<freebsd...@freebsd.org>
> Subject: freebsd-update borked?
> Message-ID:<57A212F1...@sorbs.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> As per the subject...
>
>
> [root@cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
> metadata is corrupt.
> [root@cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
> [root@cheetah ~]# mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update
> [root@cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 2 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
> metadata is corrupt.
> [root@cheetah ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD cheetah.sorbs.net 9.2-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15 #0:
> Mon Nov 3 20:31:29 UTC 2014
> ro...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

See this thread https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/28992/ you might have
a DNS issue according to this line "Looking up update.FreeBSD.org
mirrors... none found ".
OR, "sudo rm -f /var/db/freebsd-update/*.gz" and re-download the file
again.

FYI: 9.3 will reach end-of-life in less than 4mos (try one of the 10.Xs).


Yass

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Michelle Sullivan

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Aug 4, 2016, 3:55:49 PM8/4/16
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Well the:

[root@cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
[root@cheetah ~]# mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update

Would have done the same thing...

DNS should be fine... appears to be:

[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ dig update.freebsd.org

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>> update.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39566
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;update.freebsd.org. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
update.freebsd.org. 600 IN CNAME update5.freebsd.org.
update5.freebsd.org. 600 IN A 204.9.55.80

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freebsd.org. 600 IN NS ns2.isc-sns.com.
freebsd.org. 600 IN NS ns1.isc-sns.net.
freebsd.org. 600 IN NS ns3.isc-sns.info.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.isc-sns.net. 3600 IN A 72.52.71.1
ns1.isc-sns.net. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:470:1a::1
ns2.isc-sns.com. 3600 IN A 63.243.194.1
ns2.isc-sns.com. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:5a0:10::1
ns3.isc-sns.info. 3600 IN A 63.243.194.1
ns3.isc-sns.info. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:5a0:10::1

;; Query time: 164 msec
;; SERVER: 89.150.192.2#53(89.150.192.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 4 22:41:04 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 294

And actually it'll do this:

[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 40 80 update6.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 50 80 update5.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 5 80 update3.freebsd.org.
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 35 80 update4.freebsd.org.

Which actually returns this:

[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ host -t srv
_http._tcp.update.freebsd.org | sed -nE "s/update.freebsd.org (has SRV
record|server selection) //p" | cut -f 1,2,4 -d ' ' | sed -e 's/\.$//' |
sort
_http._tcp.1 35 update4.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 40 update6.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 5 update3.freebsd.org
_http._tcp.1 50 update5.freebsd.org

You'll note however, that now...

[michelle@cheetah /usr/home/michelle]$ sudo freebsd-update -r
9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Password:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic world/base world/doc

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
src/src world/games world/lib32

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
.
.
etc..

So what ever was broken is not now... and it still says "Looking up
update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found."

Thanks for trying...
>
>
> FYI: 9.3 will reach end-of-life in less than 4mos (try one of the 10.Xs).

Not a hope in hell of that they don't work on this box, but even so the
recommended path is go to the latest before the upgrade (and having not
done that in the past and ended up bricking the box, I think it still
stands.)



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