freebsd-update question

[firmdog at gmail.com]

I just installed a brand new 8.3 box and got the same behavior. I see
in my output below that I have to build or update my own kernel?


# uname -a
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 10 17:33:58 UTC
2012     root at mynewhost:/usr/obj/i386/usr/src/sys/XENHVM  i386
#

Starting the upgrade attempt:

# freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

WARNING: This system is running a "xenhvm" kernel, which is not a
kernel configuration distributed as part of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE.
This kernel will not be updated: you MUST update the kernel manually
before running "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install".

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/info world/manpages
world/proflibs

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel/generic world/catpages

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 8.3-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files...
done.
Fetching 32149 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....
SNIP….
done.
Applying patches...
Fetching 778 files... done.
Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done.

The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/mail/freebsd.cf
Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts
manually...

Then a bunch more of /etc/mail files and also a merge of /etc/master.passwd:

Then this:

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.4-RELEASE-p16:

Then I run this:

# freebsd-update install
Installing updates...
Kernel updates have been installed.  Please reboot and run
"/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install" again to finish installing updates.

# reboot


#uname -a
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 10 17:33:58 UTC
2012     root at mynewhost:/usr/obj/i386/usr/src/sys/XENHVM  i386






On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 5:06 AM, FF <fusionfoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you provide the output of those commands? Freebsd-update is usually
> pretty good about telling you what's wrong.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:02 PM, firmdog at gmail.com <firmdog at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Yes I ran freebsd-update install. Then I rebooted. Then I did it again.
>> Still at 8.3
>> On Sep 27, 2014 2:37 PM, "Dave" <davemorgan353 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 27 September 2014 18:22:15 BST, "firmdog at gmail.com"
>> > <firmdog at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Trying to use freebsd-update to go from 8.3 to 8.4 and I am doing this:
>> >>
>> >> # freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade
>> >> # freebsd-update install
>> >> # reboot
>> >>
>> >> After reboot I am still at 8.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #0
>> >>
>> >> What am I doing wrong?
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>> > Don't you need run rub "freebsd-update install"?
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