From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 18:50:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FFCADA for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stuart@islogistics.com) Received: from pub2.fourmajor.com (fourmajor.com [69.55.234.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC268FC19 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:50:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.115] (ip68-228-85-63.oc.oc.cox.net [68.228.85.63]) (Authenticated sender: stu) by pub2.fourmajor.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE99A11598 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50771338.8040102@islogistics.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:43:04 -0700 From: Stuart Matthews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121005 Thunderbird/16.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:50:46 -0000 Hi everyone, I am including as much information in here as I think will be useful. Since I can do snapshots on VMWare, I am happy to try any solution or diagnostics. Steps I took to upgrade FreeBSD: Using freebsd-update, I upgraded from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE-p8 Then, to upgrade to 9.0-RELEASE, I ran the following commands, using http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html as my guide: freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update install reboot freebsd-update install portupgrade -f ruby rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /usr/ports/INDEX-*.db portupgrade -af freebsd-update install reboot I noticed that lots of things weren't working, and specifically that I was getting lots of complaints about /libexec/ld-elf.so.1. I also noticed that when I ran freebsd-update IDS, it seemed to report that every single file had the wrong signature. So, this being a VMWare guest, I reluctantly reverted to a previous snapshot, putting me back at 7.2-RELEASE-p8. I decided to try this time to go from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE to 8.3-RELEASE. I only got to 7.4-RELEASE before I had the same issues as above. As a specific example of errors I would get, I try to run sudo and I get: [stuart@richelieu ~]$ sudo bash /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: sudo: invalid PT_PHDR This seems to be the most relevant thread to the problem I'm having: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html However, I'd be more comfortable using an official upgrade path, like freebsd-update, exclusively. That thread involves replacing a file from a FreeBSD liveCD. Also, with freebsd-update IDS reporting so many files with incorrect signatures, I feel like my problem is bigger than fixing one file. Right now I am back on 7.2-RELEASE-p8 eager to get my OS upgraded to something that is under current support by the security team. Optimally I'd like to be on 8.3 after looking at the EOL dates. Also, I did see one other post _somewhere_ mentioning a similar problem, also on a VMWare guest. So I am suspicious that the problem might be related to VMWare. Thanks, everyone. - Stuart Matthews