From nobody@FreeBSD.org Tue Sep 27 01:37:15 2011 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4961065674 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from red.freebsd.org (red.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2988FC15 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from red.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by red.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8R1bFHo051536 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:37:15 GMT (envelope-from nobody@red.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by red.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p8R1bFba051533; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:37:15 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <201109270137.p8R1bFba051533@red.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:37:15 GMT From: Ben Kaduk To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bsdinstall cannot install on existing partitions X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 X-GNATS-Notify: >Number: 161051 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdinstall(8): cannot install on existing partitions >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-sysinstall >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 27 01:40:05 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: Sun Oct 23 15:23:26 UTC 2011 >Last-Modified: Sun Oct 23 15:23:26 UTC 2011 >Originator: Ben Kaduk >Release: 9-beta 2 >Organization: MIT SIPB >Environment: n/a >Description: Per my mail to -current of 16 September 2011, I had an old scratch box with 7.4 on it, that I wanted to try the installer out on. I figured I could just reuse the partitions for testing (even though this is in general risky, due to stale libraries/configuration files/etc.), but was unable to do so. The extracting stage died with an error about being unable to create /var/empty with appropriate permissions. >How-To-Repeat: Try to install 9-beta2 on existing partitions >Fix: Either the /var/empty errors could be worked around, or the installer should refuse to use existing partitions. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall Responsible-Changed-By: eadler Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Oct 6 04:46:43 UTC 2011 Responsible-Changed-Why: fix synopsys and assign http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161051 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: nwhitehorn State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 23 15:22:03 UTC 2011 State-Changed-Why: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161051 >Unformatted: