From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 09:12:57 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 708125A6 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:12:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060BD8FC17 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:12:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Footer: b3NlLm5s Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:02:47 +0200 Message-ID: <5077DCB7.60807@ose.nl> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:02:47 +0200 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE References: <50771338.8040102@islogistics.com> <5077690F.7020703@FreeBSD.org> <20121012085343.GB18344@kontrol.kode5.net> In-Reply-To: <20121012085343.GB18344@kontrol.kode5.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:12:57 -0000 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 This e-mail message=2C including any attachment=28s=29=2C is intended solel= y for the addressee or addressees=2E Any views or opinions presented herein= are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of O= SE=2E If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please return t= his e-mail message and the attachment=28s=29 to the sender and delete and d= estroy all copies=2E