Re: FreeBSD 13.2-p1 hanging

Reply: Tom Everett : "Re: FreeBSD 13.2-p1 hanging"
In reply to: Tom Everett : "Re: FreeBSD 13.2-p1 hanging"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:49:20 UTC

On 13/07/2023 01:22, Tom Everett wrote:

> …on FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64
>
> So, to downgrade to the previous kernel would this be the right 
> command-line?
>
> freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.2-RELEASE
> freebsd-update install
> freebsd-update install
> pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
> pkg-static install -fy pkg
> pkg upgrade -fy
> freebsd-update install
> reboot
>
> (instructions essentially from here: 
> https://lifeforms.nl/20141224/downgrading-with-freebsd-update)

I should not treat freebsd-update as a sane approach to downgrading.

Instead, if downgrade is essential, build from source.

On the releng/13.2 branch 
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/13.2>, tag release/13.2.0 
(preceding patch 1) is at:

<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tag/?h=release/13.2.0>
commit aab15c8d11a299cc11fd1d1cd09aec11383c99bc
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=aab15c8d11a299cc11fd1d1cd09aec11383c99bc>