failed binary version 6.2-6.3 update using freebsd-update.sh

[Tony Nolo]

Hello,

It was suggested in ##freebsd that I post this here, rather than in
-questions. So here goes.

I'm following the instructions for "FreeBSD Update"  at
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html.

It's giving lots of odd messages, and the folks in the irc channel
said that it's not normal.

When asked, I checked, and I've apparently got sufficient disk space.

I'm hoping someone might have suggestions/insight as to the problem.

So, here's the output of the session,

root at router > fetch
http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz                    100% of   21 kB 1192 kBps

root at router > fetch
http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc
freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc                100% of  187  B   45 kBps

root at router > gpg --verify freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc
freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
gpg: Signature made Fri Nov 16 06:01:38 2007 PST using DSA key ID CA6CDFB2
gpg: Good signature from "FreeBSD Security Officer
<security-officer at FreeBSD.org>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: C374 0FC5 69A6 FBB1 4AED  B131 15D6 8804 CA6C DFB2

root at router > tar -xf freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz

root at router > sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 6.2-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

WARNING: This system is running a "MyRouter" kernel, which is not a
kernel configuration distributed as part of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE.
This kernel will not be updated: you MUST update the kernel manually
before running "freebsd-update.sh install".

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
world/base world/catpages world/dict world/doc world/games world/info
world/manpages world/proflibs

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel/smp

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 6.2-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 287 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....190....200....210....220
....230....240....250....260....270....280...
done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 19 files... done.
freebsd-update.sh: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
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Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done.

The following file could not be merged automatically:
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf
Press Enter to edit this file in joe and resolve the conflicts
manually...

I've googled on "cannot open files/.gz", and get only 2 hits.  One's
in russian, and the other has no answer.  But, this apparently has
been seen elsewhere.

If you need any further info from me, please let me know.

Tony