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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:05:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, marck@rinet.ru
Subject:   Re: mysterious uname non-updates
Message-ID:  <200809081705.m88H5Pdh083088@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809072323020.76180@woozle.rinet.ru>

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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
 > today, updating one of my machines, I got the following mysterious results 
 > after reboot:
 > 
 > root@ogre:~# sysctl -a | grep RELE
 > kern.osrelease: 6.3-RELEASE
 > kern.version: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #4: Thu Jan 17 15:28:57 MSK 2008
 > root@ogre:~# strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep RELE
 > AE_RELEASE_DEADLOCK
 > 6.3-RELEASE-p4
 > FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sun Sep  7 23:13:45 MSD 2008
 > @(#)FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sun Sep  7 23:13:45 MSD 2008
 > root@ogre:~# env | grep -i uname
 > root@ogre:~# 
 > 
 > WTF? Why my kernel reports that it is previous version (actually it is already 
 > deleted, so I'm double puzzled)

What does "sysctl kern.bootfile" say?
And are you sure that you rebooted the right machine?  ;-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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