I ran
So with skeptical fingers crossed I tried bringing up
I really hate upgrading because it has never actually worked without some failure that can't be fixed without causing other failures, eventually driving me mad and causing me to reinstall from scratch as being the lesser evil.
So should I just give up now and start a scratch install, or is there a simpler way out of this?
freebsd-update upgrade -r 11-RELEASE
and the repeated calls to freebsd-update install
. As expected, it said I'd to rebuild all the apps and utilities. But, when I tried to get pkg
to do that, it said everything was good. I don't see how that could be true, but okay. Short of purging all the packages, I don't know how to force it to upgrade them when it thinks they're already fine.So with skeptical fingers crossed I tried bringing up
xorg
but that failed because libcrypt.so.7 isn't installed. Why would it not be installed? I really hate upgrading because it has never actually worked without some failure that can't be fixed without causing other failures, eventually driving me mad and causing me to reinstall from scratch as being the lesser evil.
So should I just give up now and start a scratch install, or is there a simpler way out of this?