freebsd-update hang on 10.0-BETA2->BETA4 upgrade

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:31:43PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:22:35PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > And it hangs.
> > 
> > > What is shown when you hit ^T when it hangs?
> > 
> > load: 0.17  cmd: install 2796 [nanslp] 156.82r 0.01u 0.02s 0% 6220k
> > 
> 
> If you keep hitting ^T, does the install(1) PID change?
> 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > This is a new system, so I could reinstall it if need be, but it
> > seemed that troubleshooting might be valuable. If I should just
> > reinstall with beta4, please say so.
> > 
> 
> This is not a scalable solution. :)
> 
> It is a pretty large update, so I would not be surprised if it does take
> a bit longer than normally expected.  Either way, I'm getting a VM set
> up now to see what happens.

I sit corrected. It did finish.

But yes, it took much longer than the "freebsd-update fetch" output
led me to expect.

Sounds like I need to write a blog post about this.

==ml

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