Solved [Solved] Inspecting system seems to hang

[macfreek]

While upgrading from FreeBSD 9.2 to 10.0, I bumped into to small issues. I'll report here, hoping they may be useful for someone else.

1. On my first attempt, freebsd-update -r 10.0-RELEASE upgrade failed with the following error:

The update metadata is correctly signed, but
failed an integrity check.
Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

The solution was rather simple: update to the latest 9.2 version, before doing an upgrade to 10.0:

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
shutdown -r now
freebsd-update install

2. Next, I seem to have gotten a time-out when running freebsd-update -r 10.0-RELEASE upgrade:

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... ^@done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/src world/base world/doc

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/games

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 10.0-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@

The solution was really simply: be patient. while the first "Inspect system" only took a few minutes, the second one took about 20 minutes on my machine with slow Atom processor.

Please insert comments about the impatient youth below

 

[SirDice]

Re: [fixed] Inspecting system seems to hang

On FreeBSD, whenever you think something "hangs" press ^T (CTRL-T) when you're on a shell. It should respond which a status message of the process. That way you can see if it's doing something or not.