Re: Problem upgrading to 14

> On Nov 22, 2023, at 19:23, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:
> 
> I have a RaspberryPi 4 that was running 13.1 that I tried to upgrade to 14 using freebsd-update.  The first thing I did was a freebsd-update fetch and then install to get the latest.  Then the upgrade to 14.0.
> 
> I got the 3 messages about things not being a directory.  I thought that the latest update to freebsd-update would have fixed that.
> 
> After quite a while, everything appeared to be hung.  Upon plugging in a display, I got messages about ZFS.  This system is using UFS.  Nothing appeared to be going on.  I rebooted the system and reran the freebsd-update install.  Got the 3 previous messages again.  However, near the end I got a lot of messages:
> 
> /var/db/etcupdate/current/etc/rc.d/<filename> no such file or directory.
> 
> Install finished and the system seems to work.  I am wondering if install got partially complete and those last messages are for things that were installed the first time.  
> 
> After rebooting and running intstall again, I used the fix from Bug 273661 and that seems to work.  i don't use C++ so not sure.  I have a few more 13.1 systems to upgrade and would like to avoid these problems.

It gets more interesting.  pkg upgrade doesn't work. No idea what is causing the problem or how to fix it.

# pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    163 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching packagesite.pkg: 100%    7 MiB   6.9MB/s    00:01    
pkg: Error extracting the archive: 'Write error'
pkg: No signature found
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!