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I installed FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, after binary upgrading to 9.2-RELEASE using freebsd-update, all files I checked are correctly in 9.2-RELEASE-p4. For example:

  1. the kernel contains the new version:

    # strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep RELEASE|grep 9
@(#)FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr  8 18:08:22 UTC 2014
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr  8 18:08:22 UTC 2014
9.2-RELEASE-p4

  2. the first line of /etc/hosts shows it is upgraded to 9.2:

    # $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/hosts 109997 2003-01-28 21:29:23Z dbaker $

I asked on another forum and have verified that:

  1. I never compiled kernel, and do not have /usr/src and /usr/obj folders.

  2. the default /etc/profile is unchanged, in particular I never defined UNAME_* vars .

  3. I also tried "unsetenv UNAME_r"

However, uname somehow shows the wrong version 9.1:

# uname -a
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

So where does uname get the version number from? Which file(s) might not have been upgraded? Thank you!

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  • uname shows the properties of the running kernel, did you skip the reboot after upgrading?
    – HBruijn
    May 6, 2014 at 11:17
  • certainly not, the machine has reboot dozens of times afterwards.
    – John
    May 6, 2014 at 17:32

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FreeBSD uname is using sysctl values to fill-in its output, so there is no file to update except for the kernel.

Here are the corresponding sysctl key to uname options (from usr.bin/uname/uname.c):

  • -i : kern.ident
  • -m : hw.machine
  • -n : kern.hostname
  • -p : hw.machine_arch
  • -r : kern.osrelease
  • -s or -o : kern.ostype
  • -v : kern.version

It seems your actual kernel is not the one you think. You can check the kernel file in use with:

# sysctl kern.bootfile
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    Thanks, but "sysctl kern.bootfile" does return "kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel/kernel", which contains the string "9.2-RELEASE-p4", yet uname claims "9.1-RELEASE".
    – John
    May 12, 2014 at 23:38
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    What about a massive search for "9.1-RELEASE" to maybe found out where this come from? (ie find / -type f -exec grep -l "9.1-RELEASE" {} \;)
    – Ouki
    May 13, 2014 at 0:02
  • ok, this is something you do only when being pushed :-) I just did what you suggested above, looks like comments here don't support line breaks, hopefully I can write the result clearly (how do you do formatting above?). The result include: /etc/motd, /usr/local/bin/Xorg, /usr/local/sbin/lsof, some under /usr/ports, /var/db/locate.database, /var/log/gdm/:0.log, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /var/run/dmesg.boot, /var/log/dmesg.today.
    – John
    May 13, 2014 at 1:50
  • looks like I may be indeed running 9.1 kernel, as dmesg also says FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0. But, I can not find a kernel bearing that. "find /boot | xargs grep 9.1-RELEASE" retuns nothing. "find /boot | xargs grep 9.2-RELEASE" returns /boot/kernel/kernel and /boot/kernel.old/kernel .
    – John
    May 13, 2014 at 4:28

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