Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Re: sysupgrade failures

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 09:55:13AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026-03-11, Avon Robertson <avon.r@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > I tried to 'sysupgrade' this box and a laptop several times yesterday.
> > All attempts to do so failed.
>
> There's an issue with ftp in some snapshots. Simplest fix is probably to
> download a new bsd.rd and boot onto that. ftp(1) may work after a few
> attempts, or if you have curl or wget installed that may be simpler.
>
> If you don't have easy console access for booting bsd.rd, you could
> maybe rsync files from the mirror to /home/_sysupgrade and then run
> sysupgrade again.
>
>

Thank you Stuart. Will get latest snap with curl.

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aer

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