Did the upgrade work? Why did I screw up SSH? HELP
Lute Mullenix
lute at vfemail.net
Fri Mar 11 10:09:47 PST 2005
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:11:49 -0800 (PST)
James Leone <jleonelion at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a virtual server running FreeBSD. The ISP
> claims it's version 4.10, but when I do a "uname -a" I
> get the following:
>
> FreeBSD <domain> 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0:
> Fri Nov 12 09:18:00 PST 2004
> root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/IPW i386
>
> This leads me to beleive it's 4.8.
>
> Using /stand/sysinstall I performed and upgrade to
> 4.10-RELEASE (selecting the Developer package).
>
> Code and binary was downloaded through passive ftp
> from ftp2.freebsd.org and everything looked to go
> well. I got a confirmation saying I simply needed to
> exit the install and I would be in the upgraded
> version.
>
> After exiting the install, uname command returns the
> same results as before (4.8-RELEASE).
>
> I did notice that when I return to sysinstall it's in
> pretty colors now, however, when I go to the "Options"
> I see that the Release Name is still defaulting to 4.8
>
> Did the upgrade really work?
>
> I am accessing this machine via SSH. Last time I
> tried such an upgrade, I had a problem getting back
> into the machine once I logged out. The SSH daemon
> was unable to start, complaining about "PRNG not
> seeded".
>
>
Did you reboot?
Lute
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