13.1 Painless Install

decuser

decuser

Exported my zfs pools, downloaded, burned to USB, booted, installed like usual, imported my zfs pools, updated, and configured. 10 minutes later my services were up and running without any pain at all. I heart FreeBSD and I heart ZFS and bectl :)!

Anybody else have an easy go of it?
 
I have downloaded 13.1 amd64 memstick image, burned to USB disk, checked its sha512 sum, it matched so I've installed it. Afterwards a surprise, freebsd-version -k says 13.0 RELEASE, uname -r the same. Is it just me or some release mistake?
 
I used:

FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img

and uname reports:

FreeBSD loki.sentech.home 13.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE releng/13.1-n250148-fc952ac2212 GENERIC amd64

and

freebsd-version -kru reports:

13.1-RELEASE
13.1-RELEASE
13.1-RELEASE
 
Friend Of Jolly Devil said:
I have downloaded 13.1 amd64 memstick image, burned to USB disk, checked its sha512 sum, it matched so I've installed it. Afterwards a surprise, freebsd-version -k says 13.0 RELEASE, uname -r the same. Is it just me or some release mistake?
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I'm pretty sure you accidentally used the 13.0-RELEASE images. Because there's no way a 13.1-RELEASE would install 13.0.
 
I dd'd the Rasperry Pi image to my SD card and FreeBSD 13.1 started out of the box.

Then i installed XOrg, openbox and Firefox and tried to access freebsd.org.
Didn't work. Other sites did work. A real WTF moment.

Problem was i forgot to start ntpd so my system time wasn't correct. After i added it to rc.conf, the FreeBSD website loaded properly.
Other than that, no problems. Best release ever!
 
decuser said:
Anybody else have an easy go of it?
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Another happy customer (not me): I just upgraded to 13.1-RELEASE

I'm another happy customer, where I upgraded successfully in a VirtualBox guest (to report a kernel panic involving a port).

Postscript

github.com

Kernel panic when load of radeonkms is followed by load of amdgpu or i915kms · Issue #168 · freebsd/drm-kmod

Describe the bug Examples: panic on real hardware that requires i915kms, after booting from a mobile hard disk drive that was preconfigured for radeonkms panics in a Virtualbox guest, when (for rep...
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decuser said:
Exported my zfs pools, downloaded, burned to USB, booted, installed like usual, imported my zfs pools, updated, and configured. 10 minutes later my services were up and running without any pain at all.
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The relnotes indicate that the freebsd-update utility can be used to do the upgrade. Why didn't you use that means? Is it unreliable?
 
ram00 said:
The relnotes indicate that the freebsd-update utility can be used to do the upgrade. Why didn't you use that means? Is it unreliable?
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Nah. I just don’t need cruft lying around after the upgrade from prior releases. Upgrading in place is fine, but I like recreatable installs where I know the dependencies are the current media plus packages.
 
Alas, extremely painful upgrade from 12.2 to 13.1:

- 13.1 doesn't boot on Thinkpad X1, requires hint.hwpstate_intel.0.disabled="1".
- pkg upgrade segfaults multiple times saying (null) has no equivalent package or something.
- pkg upgrade breaks in the middle, e.g. when upgrading freebsd-doc complaining it cannot replace some of the files and just quits.
- With hwpstate disabled, laptop fans now spinning like crazy, so had to install and mess with bsdfan.
- Lots of strange error messages on boot - will have to get back to them later.

Still scratching my head how can someone break the boot process on Thinkpads (many models affected) so badly and continue to release the OS as if nothing has happened.
 
For each of these:

blackhaz said:
  • pkg upgrade segfaults multiple times saying (null) has no equivalent package or something.
  • pkg upgrade breaks in the middle, e.g. when upgrading freebsd-doc complaining it cannot replace some of the files and just quits.
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– please create (or find) a separate topic, then @ ping me from there, to join you. Thanks.
 
I appreciate your willingness to help, but I wish I had time to troubleshoot all this, Graham. By the way, one more issue: Thinkpad X1 is not waking up properly sometimes after 13.1 upgrade. Never been an issue with 12 and earlier. Handbook HTML files disappeared, can only find PDF installed. Was very useful to have HTML ones as they're faster to browse and search through.
 
github.com

pkg upgrade -f: (null) has no direct installation candidates, change it to … segmentation fault (crash) if y (yes) · Issue #2045 · freebsd/pkg

Moved from #1659 (comment) Now in chronological order: root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # bectl create n255769-f16e38162c7-h root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # bectl mount n255769-f16e38162c7-h /...
github.com github.com

NB maybe a different bug.

github.com

misc/freebsd-doc-*: Update to rev 8539114 from the FreeBSD docset · freebsd/freebsd-ports@c7fe9c0

Note: HTML format build has been disabled until separate localized-only build will work again without requiring the en_US build. Approved by: doceng (implicit)
github.com github.com

… HTML format build has been disabled until separate localized-only build will work again without requiring the en_US build.
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So far, so good. I upgraded my desktop from 13.0 to 13.1 this past weekend. Since I already knew I was going to have to redo the video drivers from ports, that prevented some frustration. Using UFS on this computer, so no ZFS pools to be concerned with. Now I need to jump in and upgrade my server from 12.3 to 13.1 to take advantage of the NFS improvements. It's using some ZFS mirroring, so I want to be absolutely sure I have the right process (and good backups) before starting!
 
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