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

[David Noel]

On 7/11/13, Alexandre <axelbsd at ymail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I didn't include the make buildworld or make buildkernel for the sake
of brevity but yes, I executed them prior to installworld and
installkernel.