From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 15:26:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B1A045D; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x232.google.com (mail-pa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6727036B; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id eu11so19241032pac.23 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 07:26:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=eGEUsoYfaC9iyNbUW0zpnXKB7QjbuLrsXu/x0h3XXbM=; b=Z1nI8tk91qgUjKC4TT6HnIlwFa0dcuq8ddnYIiXKDdnJrP3HWcZFN2cR/E/v5nlMJl rdksi/YSfrm9XTDiBP5G73SO7wW9boxYNq1cAnxXSvQGdrHDCfxhWpOxAdRUZy8FICQH XlHyj4eb0BWr+aiEYOQAAC+vKgp08Dz/Bi72qrM/dxFcHGQ7zuD75hiTMlBdtgIyVhpH 1rQIBEuG1Msd2xYdFw2ZuKdonW/aSBurl6IVw3Sk9ME3j6RojIg2dDJKJZ/jWbYUwOJk 3RROaNZkCUL2+oAT10RhaGOzlyhgioqXuvd+FiM6tY3KH4u7AGrvLbO7xHvCji0l6zKH Is3Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.249.99 with SMTP id yt3mr388276pbc.162.1416065182163; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 07:26:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.94.167 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 07:26:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <54673CA1.5020008@netfence.it> <20141115125347.GC16633@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:26:22 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: best overall upgrade from 8.x? From: Adam Vande More To: Dimitry Andric Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:26:23 -0000 On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 15 Nov 2014, at 13:53, 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. > > I almost certainly know the cause: you are supposed to reboot into > single user mode after installkernel. This is almost certainly not the cause. Something else in the horked up given procedure or some omission of facts is the likely cause. Fortunately, nice people have already created documentation on how to do this: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html -- Adam