Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:55:27 -0600 From: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best overall upgrade from 8.x? Message-ID: <5467695F.3080902@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20141115125347.GC16633@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> References: <CA%2BE3k93YhbfCN1La8sJO%2BWA-%2BeBVnSHNO-JjCsd%2BNs5%2BJq6iNw@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1tcgrO4ZgOj4feFA3hcVj%2BgP0Sq5gPcu6xmFgrONaUq6Q@mail.gmail.com> <54673CA1.5020008@netfence.it> <20141115125347.GC16633@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk>
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On 2014.11.15 06:53, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> On 11/15/14 05:48, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop up, >> > I'd go with 10.1 >> Uh... is direct upgrade (using sources) possible from 8.4 to 10.1? >> No need to step through 9.x? > > Even the move from 9.2 (a near year old 9/stable) to 10.1 (stable/10 as > of about 3 weeks ago) is slightly problematic. > > Following the normal upgrade procedure of installkernel and then > rebooting with the userland untouched runs into a problem whereby > rc.conf falls apart with a shower of eval errors, no networking, ... > > I do not know the cause. > > Fortunately the quick and dirty upgrade approach works for this case. > I did not expect it to (8-) > > cd /usr/src > mergemaster -p > make installkernel > make installworld > mergemaster > shutdown -r now > Are you sure you followed the updating instructions exactly? That page of the handbook does change from time to time and doing mergemaster before installing world and kernel is certainly *not* correct. I highly recommend not memorizing the instructions, and to follow a current version of the handbook whenever updating. AFAICT, updating from source should *always* work perfectly (as long as the system is working enough to actually compile and install the new files).
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