I can't make a binary upgrade with sysinstall. It always fails at the same byte of the base distribution. I think it's not a hard disk problem, because when I skip the base distribution the rest of the packages (doc for example) go through that byte and finishes all the chunks OK. I output here a dmesg and a df -h (the machine is an old pentium I but i've tried to attach the hard disk to another machine, another pentium I machine, and i've got the same problem). it's very annoying the opacity of the error message, even if you can not fix this problem, it would be a nice idea to elaborate this error to let future users imagine where the problem might be. I even offer you an account to log in if you need more info. Thank you very much. Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0: Tue Apr 18 08:56:09 UTC 2006 root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium/P55C (199.43-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping = 3 Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX> real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 516030464 (492 MB) Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug npx0: [FAST] npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 WDMA2 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 uhci0: <Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) USB controller> port 0xff80-0xff9f irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered cbb0: <RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 13.0 on pci0 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb: Unable to map IRQ... device_attach: cbb0 attach returned 12 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf400-0xf4ff mem 0xffbef800-0xffbef8ff irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:30:bd:b5:b6:17 rl1: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xffbefc00-0xffbefcff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 miibus1: <MII bus> on rl1 rlphy1: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus1 rlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl1: Ethernet address: 00:e0:4c:a0:f5:24 pci0: <display, VGA> at device 16.0 (no driver attached) pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xea000-0xebfff on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) psmcpnp0: irq resource info is missing; assuming irq 12 unknown: <PNP0c01> can't assign resources (memory) unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) Timecounter "TSC" frequency 199432804 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 38166MB <Seagate ST340810A 3.99> at ata0-master WDMA2 acd0: CDRW <NEC NR-7500A/1.20> at ata1-master PIO4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to deny, logging disabled The output of df -hi is: root@juanillo:/home/jrh$ df -hi Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s4a 295M 171M 101M 63% 4020 34122 11% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s4e 126M 14K 116M 0% 7 16247 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s4g 5.2G 2.0G 2.8G 42% 99061 579465 15% /usr /dev/ad0s4f 252M 98M 134M 42% 1388 31122 4% /var /dev/ad0s3 13G 6.3G 6.0G 51% 170485 1666569 9% /usr/home /dev/ad0s1 9.5G 8.4G 269M 97% 46 1295312 0% /usr/home/compartido/eMule root@juanillo:/home/jrh$ Fix: I dont understand why this is happening. it's not a disk issue because I can work without problems on this machine (in my humble opinion). Besides, searching on google I can find other guys that have experienced the same issue, so a clear response on this is really needed. How-To-Repeat: Just ask me to let you log in my machine.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa Over to maintainer(s).
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall Over to maintainer(s)
It might help if we actually captured the error and displayed it... Thanks, -Garrett Index: dist.c =================================================================== --- dist.c (revision 206173) +++ dist.c (working copy) @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/uio.h> #include <ctype.h> +#include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> +#include <string.h> #include <libutil.h> unsigned int Dists; @@ -658,6 +660,7 @@ /* No substitution necessary */ retval = write(fd2, buf, realsize); if (retval != realsize) { + msgDebug("Write failure on transfer: %s", strerror(errno)); fclose(fp); dialog_clear_norefresh(); msgConfirm("Write failure on transfer! (wrote %d bytes of %d bytes)", retval, realsize); @@ -669,6 +672,7 @@ if ((buf[j] != 0x0d) || (j == total - 1) || (buf[j + 1] != 0x0a)) { retval = write(fd2, buf + j, 1); if (retval != 1) { + msgDebug("Write failure on transfer: %s", strerror(errno)); fclose(fp); dialog_clear_norefresh(); msgConfirm("Write failure on transfer! (wrote %d bytes of %d bytes)", j, chunksize);
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.