Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:35:51 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.3-RELEASE went wrong, pls. help! Message-ID: <CAHieY7RaZFYE7UgHZOm3vT05seM3jwqQZSWy%2B1qNJKdugtKb8Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <398f92a2-e38a-05e9-89fa-8d7d53eb498d@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAHieY7QUbWdbK4Px0Dsgs-mfsTz7y2S3Qi0SZGixqhsFaE29MQ@mail.gmail.com> <f7d8b9ca-bcd8-2cd6-db52-f4ae4700ff00@FreeBSD.org> <CAHieY7RfKRnUYJf6CLjac503m6kktG48Yd%2B=Ok2qP=XQ5VJS7g@mail.gmail.com> <398f92a2-e38a-05e9-89fa-8d7d53eb498d@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 30/06/2017 18:17, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> Any idea what went wrong? I have upgraded FBSD since 6.x and never had >> it go so badly !! > > Not really. Clearly something went wrong with the process for executing > a binary, but quite what I couldn't say. The whole way an executable is > run hasn't changed significantly since the switch between a.out and elf > around 3.0-RELEASE, so it's not as if you've some half-implemented > change screwing things up. > > One of the problems with freebsd-update(8) is dealing with when things > go wrong. Thankfully this is a pretty rare occurrence, but even > something as trivial as running out of space in a partition in the > middle of an upgrade can leave you with an incomplete upgrade, and no > reasonable way of fixing it. > The data was intact and I have everything in Jails so it was easy to recover w/o a full restore from backup. I saved the original disk and took the opportunity upgrade the hard drives and a fresh install, so I just pulled the data from the old drive. I wonder if for some reason the upgrade process tried to install a 32 bit system over a 64 bit one, or something along those lines. I still have the old drive intact in case someone would like to explore this further and try to figure out what really happened and avoid for it to happen to someone else. Best, Alex
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