Re: Upgrade from 12.3 to 12.4

From: Monah Baki <monahbaki_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:49:26 UTC
cat /var/log/messages

kernel: pid 35190 (cut), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)



On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:43 AM Monah Baki <monahbaki@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> 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.
>>
>