freebsd-update upgrading 9.2 -> 9.3

[Dave Duchscher]

Trying to upgrade a system from 9.2 -> 9.3 with freebsd-update and I get the output below.  Search has seen reports but not solutions.  I also tried upgrading to 10.1 and seeing similar issue those the "No such file or directory" error only shows up once but is asking for me to manually merge lots of unmodified files in /etc.

Anybody have a clue on what is going wrong?

--
Dave

freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

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

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
src/src world/games

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 9.2-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 1322 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....190....200....210....220....230....240....250....260....270....280....290....300....310....320....330....340....350....360....370....380....390....400....410....420....430....440....450....460....470....480....490....500....510....520....530....540....550....560....570....580....590....600....610....620....630....640....650....660....670....680....690....700....710....720....730....740....750....760....770....780....790....800....810....820....830....840....850....860....870....880....890....900....910....920....930....940....950....960....970....980....990....1000....1010....1020....1030....1040....1050....1060....1070....1080....1090....1100....1110....1120....1130....1140....1150....1160....1170....1180....1190....1200....1210....1220....1230....1240....1250....1260....1270....1280....1290....1300....1310....1320. done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 199 files... done.
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory

  [ snip the out the 100 repeats of this error ]

/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory

The following file will be removed, as it no longer exists in
FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE: /boot/device.hints
Does this look reasonable (y/n)? n