Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:32:38 -0500 From: Matt Garber <matt.garber@gmail.com> To: Brian Neal <brian@aceshardware.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading 11.2 -> 12.0 on EC2 Message-ID: <6FC974C5-EA68-440D-8814-823C54DD6279@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <68E503D2-A227-4662-9A72-F74D66BF32E9@aceshardware.com> References: <5c19ea68.1c69fb81.1febf.ddb2SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <8FE35DD1-6D07-4430-9706-A873E0D8ECCE@gmail.com> <68E503D2-A227-4662-9A72-F74D66BF32E9@aceshardware.com>
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> On Dec 19, 2018, at 1:24 PM, Brian Neal <brian@aceshardware.com> = wrote: >=20 > Thanks, Matt. I did try the update procedure from the handbook and = found the instance hanging on boot with a repeated socket error. If I = have to rebuild from scratch, I=E2=80=99d prefer to find some = jail/deployment-automation so I don=E2=80=99t have to manually rebuild = everything on each release. FWIW, I did have to recreate the instance = when moving from 10 to 11. I=E2=80=99m assuming that error, =E2=80=98sockstat input size = mismatch=E2=80=99, was encountered during the very first reboot to the = new 12.0 kernel? In that case, perhaps there=E2=80=99s an EC2-specific = issue at play, since at that point userland and package updates = haven=E2=80=99t even come into the picture yet. I=E2=80=99ve performed = several 11.2 -> 12.0 upgrades on Digital Ocean (KVM hypervisor) within = the past week without any kernel problems, but in your case the safest = choice could simply be new instances, one of the things thankfully made = nicest by the various cloud providers. I=E2=80=99d also very much recommend looking into some kind of new = system automation to make things easier for you =E2=80=93 whether it=E2=80= =99s a full-blown official thing like Ansible or Puppet, or even just = maintaining a giant shell script which you can use on fresh instances, = so you=E2=80=99re not having to re-edit config. files by hand each time. -- Matt Garber
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