Solved Issue upgrading from 13.2 to 13.3 - No updates are available to install

[Juronski]

Hi forum,

I have an issue upgrading from 13.2 to 13.3. When I run 'freebsd-update install' after ‘freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.3-RELEASE’, I get the message: “No updates are available to install. Run ‘/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch’ first.”

I have done the following steps upgrading from 13.2 p10 to 13.3:

First, I applied security patches with ‘freebsd-update fetch’ and ‘freebsd-update install’. Then I rebooted into the updated system: 13.2 p11.

Next, I did ‘freebsd-update fetch’ and ‘freebsd-update install’ and ‘freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.3-RELEASE’. Than I did freebsd-update install’ again and than I got: “No updates are available to install. Run ‘/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch’ first.”

What is the issue here? Can someone give a clue, please? I have done this routine last week on other machines without issues.

Thank you in advance.
J.

 

[Emrion]

Normally, the syntax is: freebsd-update -r 13.3-RELEASE upgrade
Does it make a difference?

 

[Juronski]

Does it make a difference?

No, that does not make a difference.

 

[Emrion]

Ok, is there any output once this command typed?
What's the answer to freebsd-version -urk?

 

[Juronski]

Ok, is there any output once this command typed?

This is the output of this command:

#freebsd-update -r 13.3-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 13.2-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/src world/base world/lib32

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel/generic-dbg world/base-dbg world/lib32-dbg

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 13.3-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 13.2-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files...
File changed while FreeBSD Update running: /etc/hosts.allow

What's the answer to freebsd-version -urk

$ freebsd-version -urk
13.2-RELEASE-p11
13.2-RELEASE-p11
13.2-RELEASE-p11

 

[Emrion]

File changed while FreeBSD Update running: /etc/hosts.allow

It may be the problem. Never saw that while upgrading. Normally, you should see something like "Fetching 16000 patches..."

 

[mer]

A quick glance implies there may be a needed freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install before the freebsd-update -r 13.3-RELEASE upgrade command

FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE Installation Instructions

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

 

[Juronski]

It may be the problem

Yes, /etc/hosts.allow was the problem. I moved it out of the way and everything went fine. Thank you for your feedback Emrion.