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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by cperciva on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:06PM (#5466493)
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE

... wait while the new release is downloaded ...

# freebsd-update install

... watch the new kernel get installed ...

# shutdown -r now

... wait while the box reboots ...

# freebsd-update install

... watch the new world get installed

And you're done.

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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by bborud on Saturday March 30, 2013 @06:55PM (#5466949)
right:

  # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE
  Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
  Fetching public key from update5.freebsd.org... failed.
  Fetching public key from update3.freebsd.org... failed.
  Fetching public key from update4.freebsd.org... failed.
  No mirrors remaining, giving up.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by cperciva on Sunday March 31, 2013 @05:27AM (#5468191)
Which version of FreeBSD are you running? Usually people get that because freebsd-update cannot fetch metadata for the release they're running.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by bborud on Sunday March 31, 2013 @07:47AM (#5468421)
7.2-STABLE
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by cperciva on Sunday March 31, 2013 @02:34PM (#5469625)
That's the problem then -- you need to be running a release. The argument being that if you can get yourself to -STABLE, you're obviously comfortable with source upgrades.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by emaste on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:33AM (#5486716)
That's certainly fair, although the error message gives no indication of that and appears to be a problem with the FreeBSD-update infrastructure.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by profquail on Sunday March 31, 2013 @09:52AM (#5468623)
You should post this on the FreeBSD forums -- there are a lot of helpful people there who can help you troubleshoot this.

http://forums.freebsd.org/

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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by pifflesnort on Saturday March 30, 2013 @08:47PM (#5467208)
It looks like your network is failing.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals by bborud on Sunday March 31, 2013 @07:48AM (#5468422)
It isn't.
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