Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:06:46 +0100 From: n j <nino80@gmail.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The best approach to upgrade to freebsd 10 ? Message-ID: <CALf6cgYuqkktON0X3bKwJcVuSW5FCpSbM5_NJn5OB2JRU-2Eag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64791.5198.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <CALf6cgY-UTRTFTGpuAUiJQPAhf=O2rmSD51yJ8uupSRX7ZbH0g@mail.gmail.com> <64791.5198.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>wrote: > > A few days ago I did the (freebsd-update) upgrade of my VPS. I've been > > using FreeBSD since 4.8 and been running various releases and doing > > upgrades since then. This last upgrade (9.2-->10.0) was probably the > worst, > > though I accept the blame for not reading /usr/src/UPDATING carefully. > Here > > are the problems I ran into: > > > 1) unable to boot after first stage of upgrade with "mounting ufs... > error > > 19". This is explained in UPDATING entry 20110424 - basically, disk > device > > names have been changed and the system was not able to find boot > partition > > ad0s1a as it was renamed to ada0s1a. This is an old entry, but there were > > symbolic links to old device names throughout 9.x enabling the old > > configuration to work which I guess was removed on 20130404 ("Legacy ATA > > stack... completely removed from sources"). > > > 2) network not working. I can't find this exactly in the UPDATING notes, > > but there was a lot of talk on Xen-related changes so I guess it was not > > much of a surprise. My NIC was renamed from re0 to xn0 hosing the > > ifconfig_re0 entries in rc.conf and ipfw "via" rules. > > > 3) not actually a problem per se, but building a custom kernel with > > IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option I was using before failed with "unknown > option". > > Again, this is in UPDATING entry 20121102 - option removed, functionality > > enabled by default. Finally! > > > So take care if you share any of the above. 1) and 2) are especially > > problematic if you are running upgrade remotely. > > > Regards, > -- > > Nino > > You mention re0 being renamed to xn0. > > I couldn't find any device xn or xn0 in FreeBSD 11-current, though I found > xe and xen. > > I figured if it were in 10-STABLE, it would also be in 11-HEAD. > > For a moment, I thought maybe the reason why I couldn't connect Ethernet > on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard was needing to use a driver other than re, > but nothing so simple. > > There is still device re. > > Did you make a typo with xn0? > No, ifconfig says xn0: xn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 Also in dmesg.boot: xn0: <Virtual Network Interface> at device/vif/0 on xenbusb_front0 xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:XX:XX:XX xenbusb_back0: <Xen Backend Devices> on xenstore0 xn0: backend features: feature-sg feature-gso-tcp4 So it's xn0 in my case, not xe. Regards, -- Nino
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