Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:29:21 -0800 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any problem going from 9.x (don't laugh) to 11 directly? Message-ID: <86lgfvi20e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <7F0B2921-9F04-4E15-BD0F-17A0EA8E953B@mail.sermon-archive.info> (Doug Hardie's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:13:23 -0800") References: <86lgfvjk6c.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <7F0B2921-9F04-4E15-BD0F-17A0EA8E953B@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes: Doug> FreeBSD 9.1 cannot use freebsd-update to go directly to Doug> 11.x. I'm on 9.3, and intended to use freebsd-update. Doug> During the upgrade process when you first reboot, you really need Doug> to boot in single user mode. Doug> I have always done a regular boot as Doug> the machines were not local and had no access to the console. I don't think you mean serial console... Arpnetworks gives me a VNC console... I presume I can boot single user from the initial menu. Doug> There are enough library changes that most services just will not Doug> start properly and tend to hang. You are left with a system that Doug> is non-responsive. The one approach I used successfully one time Doug> was to comment virtually everything other than sshd out in Doug> rc.conf. You have to make sure you have really killed sendmail Doug> though. Setting it to NO is not enough. Otherwise it will Doug> eventually give up and give you back service, but it takes a long Doug> time. Great advice! Thanks. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Perl/Unix/Dart consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig
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