8.0-RC1 upgrade issue

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blstuart

So last night I try upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 8.0-RC1. The short story is I've never had an upgrade in the UNIX world fail quite so bad. (And that dates back to 6th Edition on a PDP-11/34.) Basically, everything went smoothly up through booting the new kernel the first time. Then when I tried the freebsd-update install after the reboot, the sky fell. I got a large number of Bad system call errors and by the time it was done, I couldn't do much of anything. Any further attempts to use freebsd-upgrade failed because I no longer had grep, or sha256, or even gcc for that matter. Ultimately, I regained control by booting from a 7.2 CD and "upgrading" the installation from there. So at least I'm mostly back to where I was before. Except that I seem to be getting some ACPI errors at boot time that I'm pretty sure weren't there before. After all that, I have a few questions:

1-Does anyone have any idea what I did wrong?
2-Am I correct in thinking that I can probably upgrade more smoothly under the circumstances if I boot a 8.0-RC1 CD and upgrade from it?
3-Does anyone have any idea where the new ACPI errors are coming from?

TIA
 
I'm somewhat confused about the order.
You booted the new kernel then tried to do freebsd-update? How did you get the new kernel?
 
I followed the steps that I've seen usually recommended:

freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RC1
freebsd-update install
reboot
freebsd-update install

It was after the reboot and during the second install step that I got the Bad system call errors.
 
blstuart said:
1-Does anyone have any idea what I did wrong?
2-Am I correct in thinking that I can probably upgrade more smoothly under the circumstances if I boot a 8.0-RC1 CD and upgrade from it?
3-Does anyone have any idea where the new ACPI errors are coming from?

TIA
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1. no idea

2. Personally i would download the 8.0 RC1 sources using csup and building the world and the kernel by hand.

3. No i dont know. But i have seen such a behaviour after upgrades from 5.x -> 6.x -> 7.x . In some rare cases everything was ok with the "old" system. But after installing new system the kernel wont boot correctly with ACPI enabled. In most cases i could just ignore the ACPI errors cause everything was ok.
 
I still don't know what exactly went wrong the first time, but last night I did do an upgrade from an 8.0-RC1 CD (which I had downloaded the night before after everything blew up). It went pretty smoothly. As to the ACPI issue, over the last couple of days, I think I've noticed that the errors show up more if I just reboot rather than power cycle, but they don't seem to be keeping the system from functioning. That's a detail I'll dig into a little later.

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.
 
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