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$ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.2 Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/src world/base world/lib32 The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: world/doc world/games Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 10.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching files from 10.1-RELEASE for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 1 patches. done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 4626 files... 5f019a418777cb657afa2135ec50532d4a61f8c6b1373e4e4f6b173f3aa98741 has incorrect hash.

I retried it several times, but it keeps failing. In the error message, the hash itself differs. The number of files to be fetched also decreases.

What do you recommend to solve the update problem?

Is it possible to purge the caches? Or should I use another server (instead of the default one: update.FreeBSD.org)?

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The "corrupt" file is stored in /var/db/freebsd-update/ The files are named for their hash. You may be able to proceed simply by deleting the file that was downloaded incorrectly, so that your next run if freebsd-update downloads it again.

sudo rm /var/db/freebsd-update/5f019a418777cb657afa2135ec50532d4a61f8c6b1373e4e4f6b173f3aa98741.gz

I have always found that a re-download was sufficient. In my experience, it's the download process, not the file at the mirror, which is the problem.

That said, if the file is in fact corrupt on the mirror, then downloading the same file won't help, and you should try selecting a different mirror as Mark suggested.

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  • Thanks, after some retries, it managed to download all files. The path was "/var/db/freebsd-update/<HASH>.gz" on my system. Commented Aug 18, 2015 at 22:37
  • Ah, yes, on my system too -- overzealous copy-and-paste. I've fixed the answer. Thanks! :) Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 14:19
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I'm experiencing the same behavior. This has happened a few times in the past year, and it appears to have typically been due to errors in updating the mirrors.

I retried a couple times and hit a good mirror, you could try forcing it to use particular ones and see how that goes. I believe it was either update5 or update6 that worked for me.

Alternately, you can wait until they get a chance to fix it. I reported the issue, so hopefully it'll be addressed "soonish".

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  • I had similar problem. update5.freebsd.org works for me. I have configured ServerName parameter in /etc/freebsd-update.conf. Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 13:44

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