Quoting Damon Getsman <[email protected]>:
Hello everyone.
Regardless, I just wanted to find out... I usually get people willing to
give some advice, or at least willing to laugh and tell me the lesson that
I needed to know on here. I was really kind of surprised that I haven't
heard anything back on this for so long...
As I see it would be very difficult to diagnose your problem remotely,
but I'm new here. Yesterday I did my first (test) upgrade of 5.5 to
5.6 and was fine, the system was smart enough to not screw up things
even when I set the wrong architecture and version on pkg.conf. I did
four updates in total and the last one was very straightforward and
quick.
The process was simple: booted systems with the installation CD,
selected upgrade and almost everything was the default selection,
after that booted into the upgraded server, ran the sysmerge command,
deleted the old files, rebooted, updated packages with pkg_add -u,
rebooted, ran again pkg_add -u just in case and everything went fine.
I even applied patches since I'm using stable.
So, can anybody tell me, is my situation just so hosed that it's helpless?
I mean, should I stop waiting for potential ways to fix this dependency
hosed box and reinstall and try to find a way to re-inject all of my data
into it, or are the gurus just swamped with new years tasks? :) If any of
you could give me some feedback I'd really appreciate it. Like I said with
the issue when I was first mentioning it, this system is really integral to
a lot of the work that I do, and it's my sole external facing server...
It's like a knife in my gut not having it working.
If I was you I would install a clean system, check differences between
the stock and your configuration files, restore your data and check if
everything is working again. Anyway, if you have to do more than one
upgrade operation on the same system it might take less effort just
reinstalling than going through all the upgrades.
Upgrading critical systems is an excellent case for virtual machines,
if something goes wrong you just have to restore the backed up image
that can be as easy as copying a file. I know that virtual machines
are heresy here and viewed as a waste of resources, but in situations
like this are priceless.
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Best regards,
Jorge Lopez.
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