[PC-BSD Testing] Upgrade freeze

[Erik Saline]

Thanks for the update!!!!!

I'm afraid to admit that I cannot find a link to download PC-BSD 9.  I
signed up for testing 9 but that is far as I got.

I will try a 2nd time see what happens.

Erik

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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> Kris Moore
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