Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:15:12 +0000 From: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best overall upgrade from 8.x? Message-ID: <20141118051512.GB1995@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1416068269.4781.144.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <CA%2BE3k93YhbfCN1La8sJO%2BWA-%2BeBVnSHNO-JjCsd%2BNs5%2BJq6iNw@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1tcgrO4ZgOj4feFA3hcVj%2BgP0Sq5gPcu6xmFgrONaUq6Q@mail.gmail.com> <54673CA1.5020008@netfence.it> <20141115125347.GC16633@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <B40697E4-6CBD-4F88-805F-654E9C3E8238@FreeBSD.org> <CA%2BtpaK37cUgT9MG2t%2BaNfd=1-FMWLnj2fmGX9Pj=JG2BZuTzsQ@mail.gmail.com> <1416068269.4781.144.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:17:49AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 09:26 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > On 15 Nov 2014, at 13:53, Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > > >> On 11/15/14 05:48, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > >>> I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop > > > up, > > > >>> I'd go with 10.1 > > > >> Uh... is direct upgrade (using sources) possible from 8.4 to 10.1? > > > >> No need to step through 9.x? > > > > > > > > Even the move from 9.2 (a near year old 9/stable) to 10.1 (stable/10 as > > > > of about 3 weeks ago) is slightly problematic. > > > > > > > > Following the normal upgrade procedure of installkernel and then > > > > rebooting with the userland untouched runs into a problem whereby > > > > rc.conf falls apart with a shower of eval errors, no networking, ... > > > > > > > > I do not know the cause. > > > > > > I almost certainly know the cause: you are supposed to reboot into > > > single user mode after installkernel. > > > > > > This is almost certainly not the cause. Something else in the horked up > > given procedure or some omission of facts is the likely cause. Fortunately, > > nice people have already created documentation on how to do this: > > > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html > > > > > > No. It is absolutely the cause. It's clear from the original poster's > report of errors in rc scripts after booting on the new kernel. If the > instructions were followed you'd end up in single-user mode and the old > rc scripts would never have been run before the installworld put the new > ones in. Thanks Ian. Now that at $JOB we are no longer using NFS, and all machines have /usr/src and /usr/obj populated (transferred from the build machine), rebooting into single user mode after installing the new kernel becomes much easier. I'll try this on further test 9.2-STABLE to 10.1-STABLE rollouts. -- Adrian Wontroba
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20141118051512.GB1995>