Some days ago I upgrade FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p12 to 11.0-RELEASE. I followed the instructions from https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/announce.html. There is another guide at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html#upgrade-binary. The main difference between these two is the handling of /usr/bin/bspatch, but for a system with current patch level this shouldn't be necessary any more, right?
However,
At this point I needed help. Maybe via mailing list, and maybe somebody else already experienced the same problem. So I looked here: https://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ What? (Before somebody yells at me here is the commented list of FreeBSD mailing lists: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources-mail.html) My last straw was to ask somebody I know at FreeBSD.
Pedro wrote "... update5.freebsd.org ..."
There is more than one update server. I tried some but I didn't succeed with a single server. I had to change the server manually in /etc/freebsd-update.conf after the first "fail". Is there something wrong with the update servers? Can freebsd-update be configured such that they are switched automatically? There is a pool of servers mentioned in /etc/freebsd-update.conf but not said how to set it. Is there a list of update servers?
My next steps were
Pedro wrote: "You can avoid this hassle by using bsdlabel(8)."
The remaining installation steps performed without further unusual problems. Now, the system works almost as good as before. Switching between the virtual terminals is a little bit slow.
However,
freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.0-RELEASE always ended with the message "failed". Calling freebsd-update with option "-v debug" showed after some HTTP 404 errors a connection failure.At this point I needed help. Maybe via mailing list, and maybe somebody else already experienced the same problem. So I looked here: https://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ What? (Before somebody yells at me here is the commented list of FreeBSD mailing lists: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources-mail.html) My last straw was to ask somebody I know at FreeBSD.
Pedro wrote "... update5.freebsd.org ..."
There is more than one update server. I tried some but I didn't succeed with a single server. I had to change the server manually in /etc/freebsd-update.conf after the first "fail". Is there something wrong with the update servers? Can freebsd-update be configured such that they are switched automatically? There is a pool of servers mentioned in /etc/freebsd-update.conf but not said how to set it. Is there a list of update servers?
My next steps were
freebsd-update install and reboot … mountroot fails! The drive names have changed: ad4s1a to ada0s1a, ad4s1b to ada0s1b, and acd0 to cd0. What you can do here is to get a list of recognized drives, select the most promising end enter it at the mountroot prompt, and (if it was successful) changing them in /etc/fstab and reeboot.Pedro wrote: "You can avoid this hassle by using bsdlabel(8)."
The remaining installation steps performed without further unusual problems. Now, the system works almost as good as before. Switching between the virtual terminals is a little bit slow.
