Yellow, you might remember me from here: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=26369
I'm still running the same home server with Transmission, Samba and ZFS (the ZFS pool was expanded with one extra hard drive and one was replaced, RIP). Back when I configured (starting up services and recompiling kernel) it two years ago this FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 system was not touched since, except for occassional SSH login (with private/whatever keys, I am a pro security admin
) to check on my ZFS pool, because whole family photos are there, music, movies, etc.
Today I needed to upgrade Transmission. Following this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html I installed this new shiny tool, too bad it didn't run - some errors with libc versions. I upgraded the old way - with pkg_add. Transmission got screwed also with the same error. I googled how to upgrade libc - some gibberish about one system, system upgrade, yada yada. So following this I decided to upgrade my 9.0-BETA2 to 9.2-RELEASE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/upd ... pdate.html. So renamed my kernel.old to kernel, entered
And while the server was rebooting I thought "oh man this is going to fail hard, how will I restore this?.. clean reinstall?..". Anyways, after a minute I tried connecting to my server with KiTTy and didn't expect much, but OH MY GOD IT ASKED FOR MY PASSPRHRASE. I entered it and logged in. Oh my gosh. I entered
WOOP WOOP.
I can't believe it worked. Transmission works. That pkg works too.
Good jobfreebsd FreeBSD.
I'm still running the same home server with Transmission, Samba and ZFS (the ZFS pool was expanded with one extra hard drive and one was replaced, RIP). Back when I configured (starting up services and recompiling kernel) it two years ago this FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 system was not touched since, except for occassional SSH login (with private/whatever keys, I am a pro security admin
) to check on my ZFS pool, because whole family photos are there, music, movies, etc. Today I needed to upgrade Transmission. Following this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html I installed this new shiny tool, too bad it didn't run - some errors with libc versions. I upgraded the old way - with pkg_add. Transmission got screwed also with the same error. I googled how to upgrade libc - some gibberish about one system, system upgrade, yada yada. So following this I decided to upgrade my 9.0-BETA2 to 9.2-RELEASE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/upd ... pdate.html. So renamed my kernel.old to kernel, entered
freebsd-update -r 9.2-RELEASE upgrade, then freebsd-update install. It told me to merge a bunch of files with vi, I just went :q through all of them. But then the command nextboot -k GENERIC failed. And, well, because I didn't care, I rebooted anyways.And while the server was rebooting I thought "oh man this is going to fail hard, how will I restore this?.. clean reinstall?..". Anyways, after a minute I tried connecting to my server with KiTTy and didn't expect much, but OH MY GOD IT ASKED FOR MY PASSPRHRASE. I entered it and logged in. Oh my gosh. I entered
uname -a:
Code:
[root@AeriePeak ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD AeriePeak 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898: Thu Sep 26 22:50:31 UTC 2013 root@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64WOOP WOOP.
I can't believe it worked. Transmission works. That pkg works too.
Good job
