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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:33:11 -0500
From:      Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2->6.4 network oddities
Message-ID:  <494BB0A7.7050704@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <72cf361e0812190534t1e21200eo9e249356384237bd@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <72cf361e0812190534t1e21200eo9e249356384237bd@mail.gmail.com>

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Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Just tried to do a 6.2->6.4 upgrade using the freebsd-update.sh script
> from http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.
> 
> However i got really odd network things going on, main one seems to be
> lo0 doesn't get it's ip-address. Other things like syslogd don't start
> or indeed namedb.
> 
> The nameservers in resolv.conf don't get queried after the first
> nameserver entry.
> 
> anyone seem anythign like this before. Googling doesn't provide any
> obvious results.
> 
> I've restoring to 6.2 before the users come in, but any pointers would
> be helpful for the near future when I try and build a test server to
> do this again.
> 

Hi Martin,

Please post relevant bits of dmesg output and /var/log/messages, and
that will help everyone give you advice about how to fix the upgraded
OS.  Also, did you capture the output of freebsd-update during the upgrade?

Best regards,
Greg
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