Comments on: How To Upgrade FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0 Stable Release

By: linko22

linko22 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:38:39 +0000

For the first, before any update change user-shell to default, e.g. /bin/sh

By: dzibi

dzibi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:53:28 +0000

Hi again,
everything is fine now, I just installed snmpd when I’ve got 7.0. After upgrading I just forgot to install snmpd again.
One problem just was with pthread library and modules but it just needs creating some symlinks.
Regards!

By: David Radovanovic

David Radovanovic — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:40:55 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I upgraded from 6.3 and it went relatively flawless though I had to fix several stale dependencies. Thanks again.

By: dzibi

dzibi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:59:36 +0000

I did it for 6.2->7.0->7.3 and it is not working fine. At firs view at the system after upgrading, everthing looks fine. Problem is while compiling apache, mysql or something like that because of PTHREADS. After working with symlinks and installin/deinstalling compat6x, compat5x finaly compiling mysql and apache was successful. Than I started snmpd and there is a problem like this:

kvm_read(*, 1, 0x7fffffffe920, 40) = -1: kvm_read: Bad address
auto_nlist failed on cp_time at location 1

I followed the problem and found this:

Your kernel and userland are not synchronized (i.e., you built a new kernel but did not do an installworld, or vice versa), and thus the symbol table is different from what the user application thinks it is. If this is the case, simply complete the upgrade process (see /usr/src/UPDATING for the correct sequence).

How could I repair it?

By: bryn1u

bryn1u — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:24:48 +0000

I have a problem. When i used [code]Step # 3: Start upgrade procedure

Type the following command to install new kernel and reboot the system, enter:
# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade
# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
# reboot
[/code] after reboot i cant connect with server by ssh. I had to connect monitor to my home server, when i wrote in console example: ssh -p 31337 bryn1u@localhost worked fine, but when i wrote ssh -p 31337 bryn1u@192.168.0.181 i got something like [code]
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.181 port 31337: Network i unreachable[/code]So whats wrong, why i cant connect with my own server. Before upgrade everything was fine. Someone can help me ?

By: Gambler

Gambler — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:16:10 +0000

If you get certain library errors, installing /usr/ports/misc/compat6x might help.

By: simc

simc — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:51:22 +0000

I’ve upgrade a 6.3 to 7.1 whithout difficulties thanks.

By: Darko

Darko — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:55:40 +0000

Well I just did 6.2 to 7.1 without a glitch and all over ssh on a production server with 200+ packages installed on it.

It took a lot of courage/to do it this way. If it went wrong I would had to travel 200 miles to access it from the console.

But I am happy to report the upgrade procedure worked well (had to clear up some dependencies manually but that is minor).

By: Shoaibi

Shoaibi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:33:41 +0000

Can i upgrade using this method from 6.1 to 7.1 ?

By: Oscar Cappa

Oscar Cappa — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:30:20 +0000

Dear Micro-Shock,
to resolve the same problem i create a symbolic link to new version of library
ln -s /lib/libreadline.so.7 /lib/libreadline.so.6

By: georgi kosev

georgi kosev — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:48:10 +0000

upgraded from 6.2 do 7.0 via ssh without any problems

By: Micro-Shock

Micro-Shock — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:51:54 +0000

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libreadline.so.6″ not found, required by “-bash”

is there a work around for this …. I can no longer SSH to the server….

By: Yaerek

Yaerek — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:07:20 +0000

The problem was, I had a bash shell configured in /etc/passwd. The upgrade program did not upgrade the bash but the library it links to (which is too bad, I thought freebsd was statically linked); so the bash was failing when launched. I had to change the /etc/passwd to use sh instead, then update the bash.

By: greg

greg — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:35:00 +0000

think I can do this from freebsd 6.1-release?

By: Yaerek

Yaerek — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:23:49 +0000

Howdy. I ran the scripts on a machine that is a remote machine. After running the last step and rebooting, I no longer can log in. The computer runs ssh and apache, kernel security level was set to ’1′. I no longer can connect via ssh and apache (web site is no longer accessible). When trying to connect via ssh, I get Connection closed by 0.0.0.0.
Did this update overwrite my passwd file?

By: kur

kur — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:28:08 +0000

coolbeans – don’t mention aplus.net – this is a dirty word/company

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:04:56 +0000

Hi,

I just upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0 via SSH. Worked like a charm.

By: coolbeans

coolbeans — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:50:51 +0000

For testing purposes, I installed a minimal install of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE and wanted to upgrade to 7.0-RELEASE via SSH only. I installed 6.3 locally via CD-ROM. The only thing i did after was to enable SSH and changed the port to 300. I did not need to download a newer freebsd-update since 6.3-RELEASE has the correct version.

I logged into this computer remotely via SSH and followed the steps mentioned in this article (obviously I didn’t have to upgrade any ports since I had 0 of them installed). Everything went smoothly, including using port 300 for SSH THE ENTIRE TIME even after the reboots. Don’t blame me though if it doesn’t work for you via SSH :P

TIP: Currently MOST FreeBSD dedicated server hosting companies are only advertising 6.3. As of today, http://www.aplus.net/ will only install 6.3 and charge you $150 to upgrade to 7.0. THUS, I suggest if you’re getting a new dedicated server, have them install 6.3 with minimal install and no ports or changes. This way the upgrade to 7.0 will be smooth via SSH and will save you possibly $150 (:

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:09:42 +0000

I was trying to do this upgrade from official freebsd website and it failed. When I’ve done it from your website it all worked thanks very much!:)

By: Yasser

Yasser — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:39:05 +0000

Hello,,

When i will upgrade to 7.0 lost my users and my files? or when upgrade is finished return my files and users or not ?