Re: Problem updating from 11.4 to 12.whatever

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:35:58 -0500
William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've successfully updated FreeBSD systems for many revisions, but
> this one isn't working.  I'm following the instructions here:
> 
> https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/freebsd-12-released-here-is-how-to-upgrade-freebsd/
> 
> After a reboot, I run freebsd-update install as requested.
> All I'm seeing is:
> 
> bus error (core dumped)
> ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libmd.so.6: invalid file format
> 
> And of course nothing works because all the libs and binaries are
> mismatched.
> I can't even kill the stupid process because I only have one xterm
> with root permissions and of course su and sudo are broken.
> 
> Now what?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill Dudley

get an external media, boot from  there and install FreeBSD from there.

Erich