freebsd-update not updating kernel?

[Ian Jefferson]

I was having a similar issue with freebsd-update not being aware (able?) to patch up to 9.3-RELEASE-p45.

I am continually getting messages from freebsd-update cron like this:

******************************************************************************
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be removed as part of updating to 9.3-RELEASE-p45:
********************************************************************************

I can run freebsd-update fetch and install all day long with reboots and uname still reports 9.3-RELEASE-p43.

For fun I installed lsof and I can reproduce Matt’s problem exactly.

So does uname(3) or uname(1) report on the kernel or does it simply report back an environment variable?  It looks to me like the latter and perhaps there is something about this p43 to p45 update that is not setting this environment variable up.

Both "freebsd-update cron" and “lsof" don’t seem to think the upgrade/patch has occurred.  In the case "freebsd-update cron” every day it reports by email that some update is required to get to p43.  Is this a bug?

Ian

> On Sep 7, 2016, at 8:38 AM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
> 
> It looks to me from what I'm pasting below as if there is a kernel out
> there somewhere for 9.3-RELEASE-p45, but freebsd-update is unable/unwilling
> to fetch it.  I've also got Virtualbox segfaulting, which frequently
> happens to me mid-upgrade when there's a kernel/package mismatch.
> 
> Does anyone have an explanation for what's happening here?
> 
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD localhost 9.3-RELEASE-p43 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p43 #0: Sat May 28
> 00:19:32 UTC 2016
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> % sudo freebsd-update -F fetch install
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 9.3-RELEASE-p45.
> No updates are available to install.
> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
> 
> % sudo pkg install -f lsof
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
> lsof-4.90.e,8
> 
> Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1
> 
> 111 KiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> Fetching lsof-4.90.e,8.txz: 100%  111 KiB 113.9kB/s    00:01
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> [1/1] Reinstalling lsof-4.90.e,8...
> [1/1] Extracting lsof-4.90.e,8: 100%
> 
> % lsof >/dev/null
> lsof: WARNING: compiled for FreeBSD release 9.3-RELEASE-p45; this is
> 9.3-RELEASE-p43.
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