[Bulk] FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 -> 8.4)

[Alexandre]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, David Noel <david.i.noel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 4 servers I'm upgrading from 8.3 to 8.4. Two of them went
> without a hitch, two of them blew up in my face. The only difference
> between the two is the ones that worked have a 2-disk ZFS mirror and
> the ones that didn't have a 4-disk ZFS striped mirror configuration
> (RAID10). They both use the GPT.
>
> After installworld && installkernel they made it through boot, but
> right before the login prompt I'm getting a panic and stack dump. The
> backtrace looks something like this (roughly):
>
> 0 kdb_backtrace
> 1 panic
> 2 trap_fatal
> 3 trap_pfault
> 4 trap
> 5 calltrap
> 6 vdev_mirror_child_select
> 7 vdev_mirror_io_start
> 8 zio_vdev_io_start
> 9 zio_execute
> 10 arc_read
> 11 dbuf_read
> 12 dbuf_findbp
> 13 dbuf_hold_impl
> 14 dbuf_hold
> 15 dnode_hold_impl
> 16 dmu_buf_hold
> 17 zap_lockdir
>
> Does anyone have any idea what went wrong?
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get past this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> -David

Hi David,

You wrote you execute the commands "make installworld && make
installkernel" but the first command is wrong. You must execute first "make
buildworld".
All the steps are explained in /usr/src/Makefile

Regards,
Alexandre