[PC-BSD Testing] Upgrade freeze

[Kris Moore]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:26:14AM -0800, Erik Saline wrote:
> I am upgrading my current PC-BSD from 8.1 to 8.2 Beta on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-3.  I am using the USB image and network installation.  
> 
> It got stuck at 0% of the upgrade right at uninstalling package linux-f10-atk-1.24.0.  Mouse and keyboard are frozen, cannot abort had to restart the computer.  Waiting to see if a 2nd time will work.
> 
> I also used the same method to install 8.1 first time around without any issues.
> 
> 
> Erik

Erik,

That sounds like the kernel panic we see occasionally during heavy disk I/O, such
as when we remove packages. You can try running it again, sometimes it just magically works
after a failure like this. FWIW, this seems to be fixed on FreeBSD 9. 


-- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software