freebsd stable - Jan 2017 - Cannot update system from 11-RELEASE-p2 to 11-RELEASE-p6

Hi,

I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch:

% sudo freebsd-update fetch
Password:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 11.0-RELEASE-p6.

But:

% uname -a
FreeBSD pantera 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24
06:55:27 UTC 2016

Does this make sense?

On January 7, 2017 23:27:04 Fernando Herrero Carr?n <elferdo at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch:
>
> % sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Password:
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> No updates needed to update system to 11.0-RELEASE-p6.
>
> But:
>
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD pantera 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24
> 06:55:27 UTC 2016
>
> Does this make sense?
 Use 'freebsd-version' to see the userland patch level; 'uname'
gives you
the kernel patch level; the kernel doesn't receive patches at the same rate 
as userland does.

Dear Fernando,
> On 7 Jan 2017, at 23:27, Fernando Herrero Carr?n <elferdo at
gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch:
> 
> % sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Password:
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 11.0-RELEASE-p6.
> 
> But:
> 
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD pantera 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24
> 06:55:27 UTC 2016
> 
> Does this make sense?
Just to ask the obvious: have you rebooted your system?

uname -a gives the version of the running OS.

freebsd-version -ku gives installed versions for kernel and userland.

Best regards,
Holger