Unable to update 15.0-RELEASE-p6

[drhowarddrfine]

Unlike Scottro's other thread, I am not using pkgbase.

I've happily upgraded through p6 but, as of yesterday, I noticed my upgrades to p7 and p8 did not go through even though the upgrades claim to be successful.

BE Active Mountpoint Space Created
15.0-RELEASE-p5_2026-04-23_101031 - - 584M 2026-04-23 10:10
15.0-RELEASE-p6_2026-05-11_192459 - - 95.7M 2026-05-11 19:24
15.0-RELEASE-p6_2026-05-15_074730 - - 95.6M 2026-05-15 07:47
15.0-RELEASE-p6_2026-05-15_195917 NR / 7.20G 2026-05-15 19:59

I thought for sure that, at one time, this showed a p7 upgrade but I could be wrong.

Unfortunately, I'm packing and leaving on vacation in a couple of hours and will be gone for a week but perhaps someone has a solution for now or later.

 

[SirDice]

BE snapshot with freebsd-update(8) is made before the patches are applied. So if you updated from p6 to p8 the snapshots will show p6.

15.0-RELEASE-p6_2026-05-15_195917 NR / 7.20G 2026-05-15 19:59

Your currently running BE (NR), I suspect you reverted at some point. The name of your currently active BE doesn't change, ever. Rename this back to default because it's just confusing you.

             Display all boot environments.  The Active field indicates
             whether the boot environment is active now (N); active on reboot
             (R); is used on next boot once (T); or combination of (NRT).

 

[drhowarddrfine]

SirDice But my versions are showing p6. I did not revert. Only destroyed previous versions.

freebsd-version -kru
15.0-RELEASE-p6
15.0-RELEASE-p6
15.0-RELEASE-p6

 

[drhowarddrfine]

I think I need different drugs. I just ran freebsd-update again and now i get p8 in freebsd-version. Haven't a clue what I was doing wrong but, as I said, I guess I need a drug update.

 

[Emrion]

I need a drug update.

Leaves of coca are good for that.

 

[mer]

Leaves of coca are good for that.

Funny stuff. Depends on the processing Or if you have time to waste, combine water, barley, hops...

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

I think I need different drugs. I just ran freebsd-update again and now i get p8 in freebsd-version. Haven't a clue what I was doing wrong but, as I said, I guess I need a drug update.

Don't worry too much. If you think about it, the biggest mystery in software is how it is possible that millions of lines of code written by hundreds or thousands of different people add to a functioning system. Enjoy your vacation.