Upgrade from 7.x to 8.x

[Odhiambo Washington]

Forget the manual process. Use tested procedures:
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt>
I even used those procedures <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/> to
upgrade one system from 6.4 to 7.x and finally to 8.1.

One thing you should note:
*s/*compat7x-`uname -m`-7.2.702000.200906.1.tbz*/*compat7x-`uname
-m`-7.3.703000.201008.tbz*/g*



On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Uroš Gruber <uros.gruber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking for help about this on forum, but a the moment without
> and luck. I would like to upgrade one of my servers from 7.2 release
> to 8.1 stable. I've done this on other servers and all went well. But
> with this one I can't get through. I'm testing all this in virtual
> machine where I transfer all data from real server.
>
> Here is my procedure
>
> 1. cd /usr/src
> 2. make update (using RELENG_8)
> 3. make cleanworld && make cleandir
> 4. make buildworld
> 5. make buildkernel
>
> Through here everything works, but from now on I tried manny different
> steps but unfortunately I can't make it work.
>
> If I run make installkernel and reboot the server with single user a
> new kernel loads ok the only problem I have is that some of  the
> programs don't actually work. For example awk
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.5: version FBSD_1.0 required by
> /usr/bin/awk
>
> same problem is with ps, more etc.
>
> If I continue to run mergemaster and make installworld nothing really
> works, because installworld throws me a bunch of errors because some
> of the utilities needed does not work at all.
>
> So I tried other method. After make installworld I put server in
> single user mode without restarting (shutdown now). From there I can
> continue with
>
> 7. mergemaster -p
> 8. make installworld
> 9. make delete-old
> 10. make delete-old-lib
> 11. mergemaster
>
> Btw I tried reversing order of step 10 and 11 but it make no difference.
>
> Then I reboot the machine and first it looks I'll done my job well but
> right after it started complaining about the same thing as with awk
> but now with ps etc. and then crash with kldload process. The only
> thing that it works is single user mode.
>
> Because of all the problems with buildworld stuff i tried to use
> freebsd-update utility but this one failed even more. So I abandon
> this idea completely.
>
> I would appreciate some help to successfully upgrade this server.
> Fresh install is at the moment no option. Server is running 7.2
> release with amd64 kernel.
>
> Best regards
>
> Uros
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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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Damn!!