Unable to upgrade from 10.3-RELEASE to 11.0-RELEASE

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 24 06:46:02 UTC 2016


On 23/10/2016 15:37, dabo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m trying to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 10.3-RELEASE to 11.0-RELEASE with freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade, but it doesn’t work. 
> It fetches 45588 patches and in the end it cannot apply them.
> ####
> Applying patches... /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open patchlist: No such file or directory
> done.
> /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files.wanted: No such file or directory
> rm: files.wanted: No such file or directory
> rm: filelist: No such file or directory
> rm: patchlist: No such file or directory
> ####
> I already removed all files from /var/db/freebsd-update but without success.
> Has anyone an idea?
> Is it possible to upgrade by CD/ISO without replacing changed files in /etc?
> 
> Many thanks
> dabo

You need to update to the latest 10.3-RELEASE-p10 which includes some
fixes to freebsd-update(8) itself.  You should then be able to upgrade
to 11.0-RELEASE.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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