chflags -R noschg /var/empty
2006/5/3, Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net>:>
> Hello everyone,
>
> When BETA4 was released, I installed it on a very old machine of mine,
> and tried doing a binary upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-BETA4. I got
> an error almost immediately that it failed to write because it couldn't
> chmod var/empty (due to the schg flag being set). I also had other
> problems which in retrospect were likely pilot error. Around that time,
> a bunch of other stuff came up and I let the matter drop.
>
> I just binary upgraded my 6.1-BETA4 installation to 6.1-RC2 and ran into
> the same thing. I was able to work around it by using the holographic
> shell to chflags /var/empty so that the installer could write to it,
> which it does when I retry the install.
>
> BTW - I am doing a custom distribution set including base, doc, games,
> info, man, and the GENERIC kernel. Everything else I install from
> either a local cvsup mirror or a package build machine.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? I can't rule out pilot error here.
>
> Thanks,
> Marty
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