Upgrade to 15-RELEASE failed

[digifuzzy]

Headless system running 14.3-RELEASE-p7 nicely. System is an Asrock x870 board w/ Ryzen 5 9600.
Made sure to read the release notes and followed the steps for upgrade exactly for binary upgrade.

The upgrade appeared successful applying almost 7k patches.

However, on reboot the realtek-re-kmod driver disappeared. After setting up a usb ethernet adapter, I tried to run pkg. Command would fail stating that a shared object was missing. Bootstrapping pkg was not possible.

Fortunately, I had made a bectl backup and was able to rollback to before the upgrade attempt. I'll take another stab at this but I wanted to document the failed attempt.

 

[Emrion]

If your card works a little with the re driver in base you'd better comment out the lines in /boot/loader.conf concerning the realtek driver before to reboot. It was certain that the realtek kmod would not kldload because of the major OS version change.

About pkg, you may use pkg-static and then upgrade all your third-party softwares including the realtek driver.