uname -a and freebsd-version show different output on my system

[John Howie]

Hi Dino,

You cannot “fix" it. This is normal. The man page for freebsd-version describes what is going on, here.

When you run freebsd-version it prints the hardcoded patch level for userland (unless you specify -k). If you run freebsd-version -uk you will see two version numbers. The first is the kernel version, and the second is userland (from freebsd-version itself). These will only be the same if the kernel was patched in the last update.

Regards,

John

> On Dec 29, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Dino Vliet via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear peeps,I'm running freebsd11 in a virtualbox production machine and something really bothers me a few months already. I have the idea that freebsd-update is not installing the new kernel as uname-a shows:
> 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24 06:55:27 UTC 2016     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/
> However freebsd-version shows:11.0-RELEASE-p6
> I have done various freebsd-update fetch  followed by freebsd-update install but after rebooting, the uname -a shows no different output.I must be doing something wrong but don't know what.
> My /etc/rc.conf is:clear_tmp_enable="YES"
> syslogd_flags="-ss"
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> hostname="webprod.imiana.com"
> ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
> local_unbound_enable="YES"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> pf_enable="YES"
> pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf"
> pflog_enable="YES"
> pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog"
> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
> apache24_enable="YES"
> postgresql_enable="YES"
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> kern_securelevel_enable="YES"
> kern_securelevel="3"
> When I update with freebsd-update I first start out the kern_securelevels, then reboot and then use freebsd-update followed by freebsd-install. If everything finishes correctly, I enable kern_securelevel again.
> How can I fix this?
> 
> 
> 
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