Re: Upgrade from 12.3 to 12.4

Reply: Monah Baki : "Re: Upgrade from 12.3 to 12.4"
In reply to: Graham Perrin : "Re: Upgrade from 12.3 to 12.4"
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From: Monah Baki <monahbaki_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:43:25 UTC

Steps that I performed (no luck still)

# freebsd-update install
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.

# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.3-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files...
File changed while FreeBSD Update running: /rescue/zstdmt

# reboot

# freebsd-update install
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.

# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.3-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 12.3-RELEASE-p12.

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.4-RELEASE
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.3-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic kernel/generic-dbg src/src world/base world/doc
world/lib32

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/base-dbg world/lib32-dbg

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 12.4-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system...
Fetching files from 12.3-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files... Bus error (core dumped)
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File changed while FreeBSD Update running: /rescue/halt

Thanks

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:23 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On 19/02/2023 13:27, Monah Baki wrote:
>
> $ freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
> 12.3-RELEASE-p11
> 12.3-RELEASE-p6
> 12.3-RELEASE-p12
> …
>
> This is indicative of an incomplete update (distinct from an upgrade).
>
> So:
>
> freebsd-update install
>
> Then, you might like to restart the OS before attempting an upgrade.
>