Strange Experience with FreeBSD-9.2 Upgrade

srobert

srobert

Yesterday I updated /usr/src for my laptop (using svn). I followed the instructions in Chapters 9 and 24 of the Handbook as carefully as I could to rebuild and install the new user base and kernel. Afterwards, I rebooted and logged in to the system only to find that everything works. I ran uname -a to make sure I was running the new kernel. It shows that I am. I used the system most of the day yesterday and this evening. The network, X11, audio, video, browsers, office suites are all working. Guest OSes are running as expected in VM's. I rebooted it a few times. Everything is working exactly the way it should. What am I doing wrong? ;)
 
Oh, no. You actually read the handbook. You know that's a sin, right? ;)
 
You downloaded the wrong version, most likely also caused by actually reading the documentation.

I can only suggest picking up FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and to start all over. With a little luck the system won't even boot thus making sure that you can enjoy a non-working laptop from that point on.

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You're supposed to just wing it and when it fails miserably, complain, loudly, about how FreeBSD is so much worse than [insert some other OS here] because you can't be arsed to read instructions. :e
 
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