[PC-BSD Testing] PC-BSD 9.1 update failed miserably (amd64, inside VirtualBox)

[Live user]

On 21/12/2012 18:11, Productnews wrote:
> I did an online upgrade from PC-BSD 9.1-RC3 to 9.1, and my whole kdm
> environment is gone.
> I run PC-BSD inside VirtualBox (it  does not run on the iron, see bug
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=170677  amd64/170677 amd64
>     FreeBSD 9.x does not boot if 2 hard disks are on system)
>
> I started the Update Manager and selected the only available option, the
> upgrade to 9.1.
> After the download (some hours), I rebooted for the installation.
> The installation started, and after some time, a message like "/ file
> system full" appeared, and a button for reboot.
> I rebooted, and software sets starting with akonadi  were being installed.
> Eventually the login screen appeared. Wneh I logged in (KDE), all KDE
> apps were gone: no konsole, no dolphin, ...
> Only fluxbox works.
>
> I should have ample disk space:
> $ zpool list
> NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
> tank0  26.8G  13.9G  12.9G    51%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
>
> $ zfs list
> NAME                        USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> tank0                      13.9G  12.4G   280M  legacy
> tank0/usr                  13.3G  12.4G  12.3G  /usr
> tank0/usr/home              375M  12.4G    32K  /usr/home
> tank0/usr/home/hvf          375M  12.4G   375M  /usr/home/hvf
> tank0/usr/ports             235M  12.4G   225M  /usr/ports
> tank0/usr/ports/distfiles  6.04M  12.4G  6.04M  /usr/ports/distfiles
> tank0/usr/ports/packages   4.42M  12.4G  4.42M  /usr/ports/packages
> tank0/usr/src               352M  12.4G   352M  /usr/src
> tank0/var                   337M  12.4G   209M  /var
> tank0/var/crash            31.5K  12.4G  31.5K  /var/crash
> tank0/var/db                127M  12.4G   105M  /var/db
> tank0/var/db/pkg           21.9M  12.4G  21.9M  /var/db/pkg
> tank0/var/empty              31K  12.4G    31K  /var/empty
> tank0/var/log               370K  12.4G   370K  /var/log
> tank0/var/mail               32K  12.4G    32K  /var/mail
> tank0/var/run                99K  12.4G    99K  /var/run
>
> Any suggestions beside doing a fresh install or downloading a VrtualBox
> image?
> thanks, Harald
>

Of course you need to have enough room for updates, both downloading the 
packages, decompressing them and for cache. You should have removed 
stuff, or at least, expanded your partitions.