sysinst will exit like this when the /,profile couldn't remount / read/write.

If sysinst can't touch the tmp files it needs or something similiar it will
bail.

James

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>On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:35:11PM +0900, Masahiro =Rhythm Drive= Ishiyama wrote:
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>> 	I tried to upgrade to NetBSD-1.5BETA2/i386 from 1.4.2 via
>> 	sysinst's upgrade, but I got:
>> 
>> sysinst terminated.
>> #
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>> 	It seems that sysinst's upgrade is always terminated abnormally
>> 	after making new /etc.  BETA's sysinst seems to have the same
>> 	problem, but ALPHA2's sysinst works fine for me.  
>> 	Has anyone else had this problem?
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>I just tried an upgrade from 1.4 -> 1.5_BETA2 to make sure it worked,
>and I had no problems.
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>Is there anything unusual about the filesystem layout of your 1.4.2
>installation? Was X installed? Was there for some reason already a
>/emul/aout on the 1.4.2 filesystem?
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>- Frank
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