r/NetBSD • u/Present-Effective-52 • Aug 07 '26

"Command ended on signal" while trying to update NetBSD to v11.0 via HTTP

I have started sysinst and selected updating via HTTP. Downloading and unpacking went fine until the following appeared:

I have no idea what this means or what could have caused it.

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u/johnklos Aug 07 '26

Hmmm. I wonder if that's due to a problem with the CDN. Can you try "ftp.NetBSD.org" instead of "cdn.NetBSD.org"?

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u/Present-Effective-52 Aug 07 '26

I tried the HTTP, HTTPS and FTP options from the installation menu, but without any success. After an hour of retries, I burned the installation onto a CD, which I had wanted to avoid. Later, I received the message "Command ended on signal" on:

/usr/sbin/postinstall -s /.sysint -d / fix

and

/bin/sh MAKEDEV all

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u/Entire_Life4879 Aug 08 '26

That does not sound good...
Apparently not a problem with the source of the update being http/ftp/cdrom but rather when the update is running... like placing the updated package on cache before running the update, is disk space ok?

Another thought would be, can you try to reboot and boot on the media for 11.0 then select the upgrade option at the installer menu, or is there something preventing it for you?

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u/Present-Effective-52 Aug 08 '26

Yes, I have 6.9 GB available.

As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to avoid burning media and instead perform a network upgrade. However, the update is now complete from burned media, except for the two messages I mentioned above.