Upgrading kernel

[chief]

Hey,
Need some advice here, i had installed 15.0-CURRENT, everything was working great until i ran pkg upgrade, now after reboot i can no longer load my i915kms module - get
"KLD i915kms.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
kldload: can't load i915kms: module already loaded or in kernel"

find / -name "i915kms.ko"
/boot/modules/i915kms.ko

Im guessing i need to rebuild the kernel ?
I found some steps online but those resulted in a crash, so i had to resort to using old kernel

cd /usr/src/
git clone https://git.freebsd.org/src.git .
make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC

 

[SirDice]

i had installed 15.0-CURRENT

Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions

Im guessing i need to rebuild the kernel ?

No, you need to rebuild the DRM kernel module (graphics/drm-kmod), it has to match with your exact kernel version.

 

[Emrion]

If you want to use pkg upgrade, stick to a RELEASE version.

 

[POSIX.1]

You can use Pkg with 15.0-CURRENT:

Index of /FreeBSD:15:amd64/

There you find also kmods_latest which you can use with this in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/kmods-latest.conf

> cat kmods-latest.conf
FreeBSD-kmods {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR}",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
mirror_type: "srv",
priority: 1,
enabled: yes
}

 

[ShelLuser]

Need some advice here, i had installed 15.0-CURRENT, everything was working great until i ran pkg upgrade, now after reboot i can no

SirDice already hinted at an issue but I figured I'd comment on it as well... keep well in mind that CURRENT isn't what it's name implies.. sure, it's the "latest and greatest" but at the same time also a so called developer version meaning that theoretically anything can change on a developers whim. Sometimes, but not always, resulting in an unstable situation.

When you run CURRENT you can't expect stability and/or reliablity. So keep this well in mind. Both CURRENT and to a lesser degree STABLE are not really suitable for production; for that you'll want a regular release. At the time of wiritng that would be either 14.2 or 13.5.

 

[chief]

I should probably clarify that pkg upgrade was unintentional.
So i tried rebuilding drm-kmod
cd /usr/ports/graphocs/drm-kmod
make clean && make deinstall
make install clean

However kldload i915kms still results in the same error.
Were these the right steps ?

 

[Emrion]

You can use Pkg with 15.0-CURRENT:

Index of /FreeBSD:15:amd64/

There you find also kmods_latest which you can use with this in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/kmods-latest.conf

I'm not aware of a minor version for CURRENT.

My point is: CURRENT is a development version. If you go that way, be prepared to crash, debug and compile.

 

[chief]

SirDice already hinted at an issue but I figured I'd comment on it as well... keep well in mind that CURRENT isn't what it's name implies.. sure, it's the "latest and greatest" but at the same time also a so called developer version meaning that theoretically anything can change on a developers whim. Sometimes, but not always, resulting in an unstable situation.

When you run CURRENT you can't expect stability and/or reliablity. So keep this well in mind. Both CURRENT and to a lesser degree STABLE are not really suitable for production; for that you'll want a regular release. At the time of wiritng that would be either 14.2 or 13.5.

I realize that and its ok if i have to reinstall this system, this is more of an educational post so i can learn more about how freebsd works.

 

[SirDice]

Note that graphics/drm-kmod is a meta-port, it doesn't contain anything of itself. It merely depends on other ports, in the case of -CURRENT this is likely graphics/drm-66-kmod.

 

[SirDice]

I realize that and its ok if i have to reinstall this system

Maybe wait a couple of days, 14.3 will be released really soon.

FreeBSD 14.3 Release Process

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

www.freebsd.org

 

[chief]

Note that graphics/drm-kmod is a meta-port, it doesn't contain anything of itself. It merely depends on other ports, in the case of -CURRENT this is likely graphics/drm-66-kmod.

Thanks, that worked!

 

[cracauer@]

"installed -current" how? From a downloaded snapshot?

It might have been a more elegant solution to source-update the OS installation so that the current pkg fits.

In general it is not a good idea to run pkgs that are newer than the OS.

 

[chief]

I typically install from these iso when i cant get the hardware to work on the stable

Index of /snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/

"installed -current" how? From a downloaded snapshot?

It might have been a more elegant solution to source-update the OS installation so that the current pkg fits.

In general it is not a good idea to run pkgs that are newer than the OS

 

[cracauer@]

I typically install from these iso when i cant get the hardware to work on the stable

Index of /snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/

OK.

If you do that then you need to update from source before installing pkgs.