Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:33:21 GMT From: Charlie Clark <charlie@begeistert.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/138944: Cannot update to FreeBSD 8 Beta from FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <200909181833.n8IIXL9w006065@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200909181840.n8IIe06d075508@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 138944 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Cannot update to FreeBSD 8 Beta from FreeBSD 7 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 18 18:40:00 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Charlie Clark >Release: FreeBSD 7.2 >Organization: Clark Consulting & Research >Environment: freebsd.local 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FREEBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0 Wed Jun 24 00:57:44 UTC 2009 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: I have Parallels virtual machine running FreeBSD. Releases 6 & 7 work fine so I'd tried updating to 8. I get kernel crash (but carry on using FreeBSD afterwards) and some services such as networking don't work. I am not sure if this is a FreeBSD issue or parallels one and have submitted a bug to Parallels. Unfortunately I cannot provide a text dump of the crash but I could send a screenshot if this would help. Rollback to FreeBSD works fine - great! >How-To-Repeat: Install FreeBSD using the image provided on the Parallels website and try to update to 8.4 beta via 7. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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