Cannot update system from 11-RELEASE-p2 to 11-RELEASE-p6

[Holger Kipp]

Dear Fernando,

> On 7 Jan 2017, at 23:27, Fernando Herrero Carrón <elferdo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch:
> 
> % sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Password:
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 11.0-RELEASE-p6.
> 
> But:
> 
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD pantera 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24
> 06:55:27 UTC 2016
> 
> Does this make sense?

Just to ask the obvious: have you rebooted your system?

uname -a gives the version of the running OS.

freebsd-version -ku gives installed versions for kernel and userland.

Best regards,
Holger