installing 13-RC2 did not worked

I currently run 12.2 and this works fine.
But I tried freebsd-upgrade to version 13-RC2 but then zsh and bash failed with :
libncurses.so.8 libncursesw.so.8 not found
As far as I know I have no software compiled from ports.
pkg asked for a bootstrap which i did not run as i don't want to loose my configuration.
So i ended doing a rollback to 12.2
 
a bootstrap will not lose anything, but pkg upgrade -f should be just as fine. OF COURSE you must reinstall all your packages. The ones on your system are for FreeBSD 12.
 
As far as I know I have no software compiled from ports.
pkg asked for a bootstrap which i did not run as i don't want to loose my configuration.
Just run pkg bootstap -f and pkg upgrade. Updating/upgrading or even deleting packages never removes your configuration files.

but pkg upgrade -f should be just as fine.
If you've ran freebsd-update install three times the old 12.2 libraries would get removed with the last install run. Then all those binaries will stop working.
 
I did freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.0-RC3 , freebsd-update install , pkg upgrade -f and had 3 problems.
1. zpool where not automaticly imported, so I had to do a zpool import -f on each reboot and
ldconfig -v -m -R /usr/local/lib
I have /usr/local on a zpool and this is quite annoying.
2. after performing freebsd-update install another 2 times libraries where not found.
3. kldload radeonkms did not worked. Error wrong version.
 
I did freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.0-RC3 , freebsd-update install , pkg upgrade -f and had 3 problems.
1. zpool where not automaticly imported, so I had to do a zpool import -f on each reboot and
ldconfig -v -m -R /usr/local/lib
I have /usr/local on a zpool and this is quite annoying.
2. after performing freebsd-update install another 2 times libraries where not found.
3. kldload radeonkms did not worked. Error wrong version.
See my thread about 13.0 and DRM. I have everything working now. DRM modules need to be rebuilt.
 
zpool where not automaticly imported,
See UPDATING. It's supposed to work again after upgrading /etc (on an install from source with mergemaster(8), don't know the correct way for binary upgrades)
after performing freebsd-update install another 2 times libraries where not found.
Again: You're supposed to upgrade your packages before running freebsd-update install for the third time! ABI changes with major releases, packages for 12.x will NOT work on 13. This would of course also solve your problem with radeonkms.
 
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