As per the subject... [root at cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file metadata is corrupt. [root at cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2 [root at cheetah ~]# mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update [root at cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 2 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file metadata is corrupt. [root at cheetah ~]# uname -a FreeBSD cheetah.sorbs.net 9.2-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15 #0: Mon Nov 3 20:31:29 UTC 2014 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/