Forget the manual process. Use tested procedures: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-7x-8x.txt> I even used those procedures <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erse/upgrade/> to upgrade one system from 6.4 to 7.x and finally to 8.1.
One thing you should note: *s/*compat7x-`uname -m`-7.2.702000.200906.1.tbz*/*compat7x-`uname -m`-7.3.703000.201008.tbz*/g* On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Uroš Gruber <uros.gru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking for help about this on forum, but a the moment without > and luck. I would like to upgrade one of my servers from 7.2 release > to 8.1 stable. I've done this on other servers and all went well. But > with this one I can't get through. I'm testing all this in virtual > machine where I transfer all data from real server. > > Here is my procedure > > 1. cd /usr/src > 2. make update (using RELENG_8) > 3. make cleanworld && make cleandir > 4. make buildworld > 5. make buildkernel > > Through here everything works, but from now on I tried manny different > steps but unfortunately I can't make it work. > > If I run make installkernel and reboot the server with single user a > new kernel loads ok the only problem I have is that some of the > programs don't actually work. For example awk > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.5: version FBSD_1.0 required by > /usr/bin/awk > > same problem is with ps, more etc. > > If I continue to run mergemaster and make installworld nothing really > works, because installworld throws me a bunch of errors because some > of the utilities needed does not work at all. > > So I tried other method. After make installworld I put server in > single user mode without restarting (shutdown now). From there I can > continue with > > 7. mergemaster -p > 8. make installworld > 9. make delete-old > 10. make delete-old-lib > 11. mergemaster > > Btw I tried reversing order of step 10 and 11 but it make no difference. > > Then I reboot the machine and first it looks I'll done my job well but > right after it started complaining about the same thing as with awk > but now with ps etc. and then crash with kldload process. The only > thing that it works is single user mode. > > Because of all the problems with buildworld stuff i tried to use > freebsd-update utility but this one failed even more. So I abandon > this idea completely. > > I would appreciate some help to successfully upgrade this server. > Fresh install is at the moment no option. Server is running 7.2 > release with amd64 kernel. > > Best regards > > Uros > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"