best overall upgrade from 8.x?

[Ian Lepore]

On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 09:26 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 15 Nov 2014, at 13:53, Adrian Wontroba <aw1 at stade.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> > >> On 11/15/14 05:48, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > >>> I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop
> > up,
> > >>> I'd go with 10.1
> > >> Uh... is direct upgrade (using sources) possible from 8.4 to 10.1?
> > >> No need to step through 9.x?
> > >
> > > Even the move from 9.2 (a near year old 9/stable) to 10.1 (stable/10 as
> > > of about 3 weeks ago) is slightly problematic.
> > >
> > > Following the normal upgrade procedure of installkernel and then
> > > rebooting with the userland untouched runs into a problem whereby
> > > rc.conf falls apart with a shower of eval errors, no networking, ...
> > >
> > > I do not know the cause.
> >
> > I almost certainly know the cause: you are supposed to reboot into
> > single user mode after installkernel.
> 
> 
> This is almost certainly not the cause.  Something else in the horked up
> given procedure or some omission of facts is the likely cause. Fortunately,
> nice people have already created documentation on how to do this:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html
> 
> 

No.  It is absolutely the cause.  It's clear from the original poster's
report of errors in rc scripts after booting on the new kernel.  If the
instructions were followed you'd end up in single-user mode and the old
rc scripts would never have been run before the installworld put the new
ones in.

-- Ian