Solved Installing updates...

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balanga

According to https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/

the last stage freebsd-update install process after a reboot is to run freebsd-update install, when I do this I'm told

Installing updates...
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this stays on the screen, nothing else happens, even after half an hour. I have just upgraded from 13.5 to 14.3, although I'm not sure what state things are in.
I guess I'll just cancel the process and reboot hoping the upgraded worked successfully.
 
balanga said:
I stopped the process and rebooted.

Everything seems to work OK.

I'll try to remember this if/when the same thing happens when I upgrade to 15.0 in a week or two.
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Just upgrading to 15.0 so some information is provided, and it's worth knowing about CTRL-T just to confirm that the system hasn't hung.
 
balanga said:
it's worth knowing about CTRL-T just to confirm that the system hasn't hung.
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Yep. Super useful, I really miss that feature on Linux. It will tell you what the process is doing at that time. You will know the difference between a process that's busy working or one that's completely hung up and stalled.
 
If it can be helpful, it happened almost the same for me on my MSI GL65 (strictly following the 15.0R installation procedure, no problem on my Thinkpad X280). Rebooting after
freebsd-update upgrade -r 15.0-RELEASE
freebsd-update install

I ended into single user mode. From here, I mounted my ZFS dataset, and running again
freebsd-update install
did take almost an hour, saying "Installing updates...".

CTRL+T stated things like (pot pourri of some strings) :
Code: 
load: 0.26 cmd: install 71760 [zcw->zcw_cv] 0.09r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2640k
load: 0.18 cmd: gunzip 72308 [running] 0.00r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 656k
load: 0.53 cmd: chflags 62879 [running] 0.00r 0.00u 0.00s 8% 2360k

To be complete about my journey, after this, I ran pkg upgrade, rebooted and ran again pkg upgrade because it was complaining about linux 64 bit support missing (but should not happen but for me, I use it only on demand with kldload linux64).

I don't know why it took so long on the MSI, which is more powerful (except it's a Samsung SATA SSD). To get an idea, the full upgrading process, including PKG update, took about 35 minutes on my Thinkpad, and almost the double of it on my MSI. And the Thinkpad lost lots of time because it was using the Wifi G speed, where my MSI is 1000 Base-T wired.
 
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