Upgrading to 15.0-RELEASE , the good, the bad, the ugly

[Charlie_]

Why doesn't anybody mention the fact, that after freebsd-update install & reboot you get error "can't find libsys.so.7

Making sure you're not a bot!

We've already done what we could (fix the bug and put out an EN).  We've also
clearly documented that you should update your existing system to the latest
patch level before upgrading (this isn't new, because it's not the first time a bug
in freebsd-update broke an upgrade).  But you refuse to read that documentation,
preferring instead to read /usr/src/UPDATING which is intended for people who
update from source, i.e. not you.

So the only problem here is your refusal to read the documentation and follow the
procedure it recommends.  There is no patch for that.

 

[bakul]

Why doesn't anybody mention the fact, that after freebsd-update install & reboot you get error "can't find libsys.so.7
" and a completely unusable system?

What version of freebsd did you upgrade from? Since you have root on zfs, you could've (and should've) used boot environment assuming bectl was available.

 

[bakul]

So the only problem here is your refusal to read the documentation and follow the procedure it recommends. There is no patch for that.

freebsd-update needs to be made more bullet-proof.

 

[astyle]

I used to have 14.2-RELEASE on my Lenovo laptop. Instead of doing the finicky and error-prone freebsd-upgrade(8), for which I've seen more horror stories than I care to link to, I just made a backup of stuff I don't wanna lose, and went for a fresh install of 15.0-RELEASE. Now I'm enjoying it all, it's all up to date, and no version conflicts Oh, I even have Plasma Wayland!