freebsd stable - Sep 2008 - mysterious uname non-updates

Dear colleagues,

today, updating one of my machines, I got the following mysterious results 
after reboot:

root@ogre:~# sysctl -a | grep RELE
kern.osrelease: 6.3-RELEASE
kern.version: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #4: Thu Jan 17 15:28:57 MSK 2008
root@ogre:~# strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep RELE
AE_RELEASE_DEADLOCK
6.3-RELEASE-p4
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sun Sep  7 23:13:45 MSD 2008
@(#)FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sun Sep  7 23:13:45 MSD 2008
root@ogre:~# env | grep -i uname
root@ogre:~# 

WTF? Why my kernel reports that it is previous version (actually it is already 
deleted, so I'm double puzzled)

Any clues? Thanks!

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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*** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru ***
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
 > today, updating one of my machines, I got the following mysterious results
 > after reboot:
 > 
 > root@ogre:~# sysctl -a | grep RELE
 > kern.osrelease: 6.3-RELEASE
 > kern.version: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #4: Thu Jan 17 15:28:57 MSK 2008
 > root@ogre:~# strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep RELE
 > AE_RELEASE_DEADLOCK
 > 6.3-RELEASE-p4
 > FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sun Sep  7 23:13:45 MSD 2008
 > @(#)FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sun Sep  7 23:13:45 MSD 2008
 > root@ogre:~# env | grep -i uname
 > root@ogre:~# 
 > 
 > WTF? Why my kernel reports that it is previous version (actually it is
already
 > deleted, so I'm double puzzled)

What does "sysctl kern.bootfile" say?
And are you sure that you rebooted the right machine?  ;-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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