updating kernel and ezjail

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vand777

I always set up jails as described in the article "Application of Jails". But it is a little bit of a headache when you have to upgrade kernel and update all the jails. I started looking into a more convenient solution: sysutils/ezjail.

I set up test jails on my test server (I used sysutils/ezjail for these purposes). Now I'm trying to update kernel and my jails, and I'm facing a problem which I could not resolve by googling.

After I did an update as described in this article, I tried:
Code: 
ezjail-admin update -i
mergemaster -iU -D /usr/jails/www

Unfortunately, I got the following:
Code: 
...

*** There is no installed version of ./boot/device.hints


install: mkdir /usr/jails/www/boot: File exists
*** FATAL ERROR: Unable to install ./boot/device.hints to /usr/jails/www/boot

Any solutions? Maybe I did something wrong when updating ezjail jails?

P.S. I also tried to rebuild world when using ezjail-admin update - didn't help.
 
I found a related post but it does not look like a proper solution. At least, I doubt that everyone of you does these tricks every time when you're updating kernel and jails.
 
Check if /usr/jails/www/boot is a directory. It's probably a file.
 
SirDice said:
Check if /usr/jails/www/boot is a directory. It's probably a file.
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/usr/jails/www/boot is a link to /usr/jails/basejail/boot. File /usr/jails/basejail/boot/device.hints exists. Its permissions are 444. It didn't help when I changed it to 777. Same error.
 
Problem solved!

Instead of using mergemaster -iU -D /usr/jails/www, now I'm using mergemaster -D /usr/jails/www and choose to delete temporary device.hints when asked.
 
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