Lou, what can you see in /var/upgrade/upgrade.log ?
2007:07:28-08:57:58 (none) daemon-watcher[3069]: Watching selfmonng.pl - running fine
2007:07:28-09:00:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[15623]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-09:05:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[17490]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-09:10:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[19594]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-09:12:54 (none) init: Switching to runlevel: 1
2007:07:28-09:13:21 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/null.syslog
2007:07:28-09:13:23 (none) ulogd[2260]: sigterm received, exiting
2007:07:28-09:13:23 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: syslog-ng version 1.6.7 going down
2007:07:28-12:09:12 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: syslog-ng version 1.6.7 starting
2007:07:28-12:09:17 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/null.syslog
2007:07:28-12:09:17 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
2007:07:28-12:09:20 (none) init: Switching to runlevel: 3
2007:07:28-12:09:21 (none) ulogd[2259]: ulogd Version 1.23 starting
2007:07:28-12:09:21 (none) ulogd[2261]: initialization finished, entering main loop
2007:07:28-12:09:43 (none) daemon-watcher[3069]: This is daemon-watcher v1.1 2004/02/11 11:56:23 ghansen starting...
2007:07:28-12:09:43 (none) daemon-watcher[3069]: Watching selfmonng.pl...
2007:07:28-12:09:54 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
2007:07:28-12:09:56 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: new configuration initialized
2007:07:28-12:10:00 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
2007:07:28-12:10:01 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[3939]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:10:05 (none) snmpd[3933]: error finding row index in _ifXTable_container_row_restore
2007:07:28-12:10:05 (none) snmpd[3933]: error finding row index in _ifXTable_container_row_restore
2007:07:28-12:10:05 (none) snmpd[3933]: error finding row index in _ifXTable_container_row_restore
2007:07:28-12:10:05 (none) snmpd[3933]: error finding row index in _ifXTable_container_row_restore
2007:07:28-12:10:05 (none) snmpd[3933]: NET-SNMP version 5.3.0.1
2007:07:28-12:10:16 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/null.syslog
2007:07:28-12:10:17 (none) snmpd[3933]: Received TERM or STOP signal... shutting down...
2007:07:28-12:10:24 (none) snmpd[4255]: NET-SNMP version 5.3.0.1
2007:07:28-12:10:29 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
2007:07:28-12:10:31 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: new configuration initialized
2007:07:28-12:10:51 (none) ez-ipupdate: Ez-IPupdate stopped.
2007:07:28-12:10:52 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
2007:07:28-12:10:56 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: new configuration initialized
2007:07:28-12:11:00 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
2007:07:28-12:11:31 (none) system[5966]: System was restarted
2007:07:28-12:11:56 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
2007:07:28-12:11:58 (none) syslog-ng[1324]: new configuration initialized
2007:07:28-12:12:00 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
2007:07:28-12:12:05 (none) ez-ipupdate: Ez-IPupdate stopped.
2007:07:28-12:13:00 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
2007:07:28-12:15:00 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
2007:07:28-12:15:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[6837]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:20:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[7041]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:25:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[7237]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:29:16 (none) daemon-watcher[3069]: Watching selfmonng.pl - running fine
2007:07:28-12:30:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[7465]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:30:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[7467]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/content_manager.pl global_nuke cleanup)
2007:07:28-12:35:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[7674]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:40:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[7914]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:45:00 (none) /usr/sbin/cron[1786]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
2007:07:28-12:45:00 (none) /USR/SBIN/CRON[8251]: (root) CMD ( /usr/local/bin/reportcontrol.sh)
2007:07:28-12:49:12 (none) daemon-watcher[3069]: Watching selfmonng.pl - running fine
Gain console access (SSH) and reveal the content of your upgrade.log file.Arthur
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2007.07.31 15:18:03 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
/var/upgrade > more upgrade.log
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 :: Upgrade initialization started
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 Creating /var/storage/upgrade
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 :: Checking for required utilities
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 parted is installed
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 :: Checking space on /var/storage
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 Enough free space on storage partition (12109 MiB)
Sat Jul 28 07:49:43 EDT 2007 :: Searching for upgrade servers
Sat Jul 28 07:50:32 EDT 2007 Using ftp.astaro.de
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 :: Making backup
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/modules.conf
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/modules
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/sysconfig/kernel
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/asg
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/securetty
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/serial.conf
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/usb.conf
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 /etc/guid
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 Creating V6 backup file
Sat Jul 28 07:50:36 EDT 2007 Turning off backup encryption
Sat Jul 28 07:50:46 EDT 2007 Turning on backup encryption again
Sat Jul 28 07:52:20 EDT 2007 :: up_fetch started
Sat Jul 28 07:52:20 EDT 2007 :: Setting iptables rule
Sat Jul 28 07:52:20 EDT 2007 :: Fetching ftp://ftp.astaro.de/pub/Astaro_Security
_Linux/Migration_6.3-7.0/asg-7.005.bin
Sat Jul 28 09:11:43 EDT 2007 :: Fetching ftp://ftp.astaro.de/pub/Astaro_Security
_Linux/Migration_6.3-7.0/asg-7.005.bin.md5
Sat Jul 28 09:11:50 EDT 2007 :: Checking MD5 sum
Sat Jul 28 09:12:30 EDT 2007 MD5 checksum OK
Sat Jul 28 09:12:34 EDT 2007 :: Resetting iptables rule
Sat Jul 28 09:12:53 EDT 2007 :: Upgrade started
Sat Jul 28 09:12:53 EDT 2007 :: Check version
Sat Jul 28 09:12:53 EDT 2007 Installed version is 6.311
Sat Jul 28 09:12:53 EDT 2007 :: Preparing runlevel 1
Sat Jul 28 09:12:53 EDT 2007 :: Switching to runlevel 1
Sat Jul 28 09:13:24 EDT 2007 :: Upgrade Preparation started
Sat Jul 28 09:13:24 EDT 2007 :: Inspecting current system
Sat Jul 28 09:13:24 EDT 2007 ASG root disk is /dev/hdc
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 Found 'default' kernel
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 Making found data persistent
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 :: Creating Provisional Upgrade Partition
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 Turning swap off
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 Creating filesystem on /dev/hdc2
/dev/hdc2 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 mke2fs failed
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 :: Restoring swap partition
Sat Jul 28 09:13:27 EDT 2007 Done
The answer I got from Astaro is that the upgrade process uses the swap partition to upgrade the firewall so please check that your swap partition is empty.
did you contact THEM, so THEIR support can take a look at it?
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