Bug 197304 - improve feedback of freebsd-update after failure due to missing /boot/kernel
Summary: improve feedback of freebsd-update after failure due to missing /boot/kernel
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 9.3-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2015-02-04 02:14 UTC by Kalle Richter
Modified: 2022-01-01 12:41 UTC (History)
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Description Kalle Richter 2015-02-04 02:14:46 UTC 
If `/boot/kernel` doesn't exist and `freebsd-update fetch` is invoked, the command fails with the error message `Cannot identify running kernel`. It would be much more helpful to append the reason.

This is discussed in https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cannot-identify-running-kernel.43329/ with a reference to the relevant code.