freebsd-update to 13.1-RC5: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable

[uchman]

Hi!

I have recently tried to upgrade two of my raspberry pi 4 machines from 13.1-BETA to 13.1-RC5, but both of them failed in the same manner.

after running

freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.0-RC5
freebsd-update install
reboot

I did the final installation step and it rendered alot of errors. And not the machine does not boot properly.

# freebsd-update install
Installing updates.../lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
/lib/libc.so.7: Unable to relocate undefined weak TLS variable
[....]
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
[...]

 

[grahamperrin]

Maybe irrelevant, but what's the preferred shell for the root user?

 

[grahamperrin]

… from 13.1-BETA …

freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.0-RC5

Is that 0 a typo here, or did you actually run that command?

(Thanks to dadv in IRC for attention to detail.)

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There's no guard against an accidental (probably maybe invalid) downgrade. Shots from a downgrade update from 13.1-BETA3 to 13.0-RC5:

… it's odd, but the end result is usable.