On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:29:12 +0000 Pete French <petefre...@ingresso.co.uk> wrote
> > Indeed. Having read UPDATING prior to the attempted upgrade, I > > followed the advise to add 'compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18' > > to sysctl.conf(5). And rebooted. > > If you rebooted then it should have been set - and you should > not have needed to do it manually. > > > But what turned out to be the *actual* solution, was to use > > sysctl(8). Applying it directly fixed it. :-) > > This should not have been necessary if you rebooted. I think > you should try and find out what went wrong, as otherwise this > will not work when you reboot next time and you will have to set it > by hand on each reboot. > > It sounds like you did all the right things - nt sure why it didnt > work for you. > > Have you rebooted since ? What is the value after rebooting now ? Hello Peter, and thank you for the reply. I only just now got a chance to bounce the box. I first sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 as that's what it reported, after the [kern/world] install, and before/during my attempts to install -c6. I then confirmed the setting via sysctl, then confirmed sysctl.conf(5) had the sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18 setting listed. Bounced the box, and the sysctl.conf settings took. I have absolutely no idea why it wouldn't work as stated in UPDATING, or after loading it in sysctl.conf, yesterday. But it *apparently* works now. I think, under the circumstances, I'd do well to continue to monitor that setting for awhile. Fortunately, given it's FreeBSD, and a server, I won't have a need to bounce it very often. Thanks again, Peter, for taking the time to reply. --Chris > > -pete. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"