Thanks. I now know to separate with a reboot the kernel and other sets tar(1) unpack.
I was able to bootup in 11 beta despite those diagnostics warnings, but the X11 environment froze at the second attempt to startx. Falling back to the usb stick 10.1 rescue, I muddled my way through the menu options to write on the file system the 10.1 sets, but ended on reboot at the single user prompt for a shell and was unable to update /etc/rc.conf for multiuser because the file system was read only. I did a clean install and despite having `/etc/pkg_install.conf' as follows, # cat /etc/pkg_install.conf PKG_PATH="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/10.1/All"; PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb the attempt to install `pkgin' produced the read out as follows, # pkg_add pkgin pkg_add: Can't process file:///usr/%22https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/10.1/All%22/pkgin*: No such file or directory pkg_add: no pkg found for 'pkgin', sorry. pkg_add: 1 package addition failed and the work around I used was as follows after creating the `/usr/pkg/pkgdb' directory # PKG_PATH="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/10.1/All"; PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb pkg_add pkgin I've also unpacked and installed the debug and xdebug sets so the next time a core file is dropped the diagnostics will have more meaning. New out of the box, something about the `/etc/X11/ctwm/system.ctwmrc' isn't right in that the `f.occupy' call out produces a GUI panel that has what seems to be the fore/background colors the same. You can't see the numbers or buttons for virtual desktops to select. You can't see the ok, cancel, all buttons. Muddling my way through at customizing my own dot ctwmrc allows the `f.occupy' GUI panel to show. See attached. I don't know which setting allows the `f.occupy' GUI panel to show as expected.
dot_ctwmrc.text
Description: dot ctwmrc file fixes `f.occupy' GUI blank panel
RVP <r...@sdf.org> writes:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025, Van Ly wrote:
>
>> [1] Bad system call (core dumped) /usr/sbin/etcupdate -a -l ${sflags}
>>
>
> New binaries running on old kernel.
>
> The way to do upgrades--esp. jumping major versions--is:
>
> - install new kernel
> - reboot into it
> - install userland
> - merge /etc
>
> If you've already installed the new kernel, just reboot into it, then do the
> etcupdate.
>
> -RVP
>
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vl
