Re: OS update incomplete

From: paul beard <paulbeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:04:20 UTC
On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 7:13 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On 09/10/2022 21:30, paul beard wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 12:01 PM Graham Perrin
> > <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >     On 09/10/2022 18:22, paul beard wrote:
> >>
> >>         Restart in single user mode.
> >>
> >>         freebsd-version -kr
> >>
> >>     12.3-RELEASE-p6
> >
> >
> >     Was that for both k and r, or just one of the two?
> >
> > freebsd-version -kru
> > 12.3-RELEASE-p6
> > 12.3-RELEASE-p6
> > 12.3-RELEASE-p7 <— this seems amiss. Should userland be different from
> > the kernel?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> If you see two lines that are identical, please do not abbreviate to a
> single line.
>
> Each line has meaning.
>
>
Thank you for the clarification.



> Your running kernel (r) is now as it should be.
>
> It's most likely that you had previously used freebsd-update, but
> omitted a critical step: the restart of the operating system.
>
> For userland (u), patch level 7 is correct.
>
> <https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#releng/12.3> may help to
> understand things.
>
> freebsd-version(1)
> <
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-version&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD
> >
>
>
Good to know. What's a good interval for freebsd-update? quarterly?
Monthly?


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