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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:02:47 +0200
From:      Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <5077DCB7.60807@ose.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20121012085343.GB18344@kontrol.kode5.net>
References:  <50771338.8040102@islogistics.com> <5077690F.7020703@FreeBSD.org> <20121012085343.GB18344@kontrol.kode5.net>

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On 10/12/2012 10=3A53 AM=2C Jamie Paul Griffin wrote=3A
=3E =5B Greg Larkin wrote on Thu 11=2EOct=2712 at 20=3A49=3A19 -0400 =5D
=3E
=3E=3E Hi Stuart=2C
=3E=3E
=3E=3E If you click the link in this mailing list article
=3E=3E =28http=3A//lists=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-J=
uly/218554=2Ehtml=29=2C
=3E=3E then follow the rest of the threaded messages=2C you should be able=
 fix
=3E=3E the problem once you upgrade to 7=2E4=2E
=3E=3E
=3E=3E The issue is that freebsd-update cannot update the ld-elf=2Eso=2E1 b=
inary
=3E=3E on a running system=2C so after the upgrade to 7=2E4 =28or higher=29=
=2C the
=3E=3E system is not completely updated=2E
=3E=3E
=3E=3E This message
=3E=3E =28http=3A//lists=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-J=
uly/218884=2Ehtml=29
=3E=3E has a fix=2C but it involves booting from a liveCD and replacing the=

=3E=3E binary manually=2E
=3E Would it be easier to do an update by building from source=3F I=27ve ne=
ver used freebsd-update myself so not had to troubleshoot these issues befo=
re=2E

That=27s probably the best way=2E

Bit I am wondering about this=2E
I upgraded several systems =28physical and virtual machines=29 with=20
freebsd-update from 7=2E1 -=3E 7=2E3 -=3E 8=2E1 -=3E 8=2E3 and also one sys=
tem from 7=2E1 -=3E=20
7=2E4 =28with custom kernels=29 and did not encounter this=2E Did I just ge=
t lucky then=3F




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