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    Error trying to enable AES-NI and Intel thermal sensors, worked in 2.6.0 not in 22.01 or 22.05

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      Zak 0 @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 said in Error trying to enable AES-NI and Intel thermal sensors, worked in 2.6.0 not in 22.01 or 22.05:

      pkg info -x pfsense

      Thanks for your reply, it looks like everything is showing 22.05 as expected. Just to clarify again this is the same after fresh reinstallation a second time, and it also did it with zero other packages installed.

      pfSense-22.05
      pfSense-Status_Monitoring-1.7.11_4
      pfSense-base-22.05
      pfSense-default-config-22.05
      pfSense-kernel-pfSense-22.05
      pfSense-pkg-Backup-0.5_6
      pfSense-pkg-Cron-0.3.8_1
      pfSense-pkg-Service_Watchdog-1.8.7_1
      pfSense-pkg-Status_Traffic_Totals-2.3.2_2
      pfSense-pkg-Tailscale-0.1.0_1
      pfSense-pkg-WireGuard-0.1.6_2
      pfSense-pkg-acme-0.7.1_1
      pfSense-pkg-bandwidthd-0.7.4_5
      pfSense-pkg-darkstat-3.1.3_5
      pfSense-pkg-freeradius3-0.15.7_33
      pfSense-pkg-haproxy-0.61_7
      pfSense-pkg-lldpd-0.9.11
      pfSense-pkg-ntopng-0.8.13_10
      pfSense-pkg-openvpn-client-export-1.6_4
      pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-devel-3.1.0_4
      pfSense-pkg-snort-4.1.6
      pfSense-pkg-suricata-6.0.4_1
      pfSense-rc-22.05
      pfSense-repo-22.05_9
      pfSense-upgrade-1.0_27
      php74-pfSense-module-0.81

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Hmm. Try: ls -ls /boot/kernel

        Make sure all the modules and the kernel show the same date.

        Steve

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          Zak 0 @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 said in Error trying to enable AES-NI and Intel thermal sensors, worked in 2.6.0 not in 22.01 or 22.05:

          ls -ls /boot/kernel

          Everything is showing as Jun 22 20:23 and I can see aesni.ko and coretemp.ko are also listed. Any other suggestions welcome.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Hmm, run uname -a, make sure it's actually running the 22.05 kernel.

            I just tested the upgrade process here and it seems OK. The modules load as expected:

            [22.05-RELEASE][admin@cedev-4.stevew.lan]/root: kldload coretemp
            [22.05-RELEASE][admin@cedev-4.stevew.lan]/root: uname -a
            FreeBSD cedev-4.stevew.lan 12.3-STABLE FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE plus-RELENG_22_05-n202700-3ddaea61055 pfSense  amd64
            [22.05-RELEASE][admin@cedev-4.stevew.lan]/root: kldstat
            Id Refs Address                Size Name
             1   18 0xffffffff80200000  3b03640 kernel
             2    1 0xffffffff83d04000   39bde0 zfs.ko
             3    2 0xffffffff840a0000     9870 opensolaris.ko
             4    1 0xffffffff84319000     1010 cpuctl.ko
             5    1 0xffffffff8431b000     25c8 intpm.ko
             6    1 0xffffffff8431e000      b40 smbus.ko
             7    1 0xffffffff8431f000      bf8 coretemp.ko
            

            Steve

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              Zak 0 @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10 said in Error trying to enable AES-NI and Intel thermal sensors, worked in 2.6.0 not in 22.01 or 22.05:

              uname -a

              Ohhhhh interesting, that says 22.01

              FreeBSD pfsensehp.xxxx.xxx 12.3-STABLE FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE plus-RELENG_22_01-n202637-97cc5c23e13 pfSense amd64

              But this confirms it thinks it's on 22.05
              5a101701-e8a4-495f-8045-5577853f0939-image.png

              Do you know how I can resolve this? Thanks so much for your help. Edit to add: Just remembered the coretemp and aesni also didn't work in 22.01 only in 2.6.0, so think that is just part of the issue unless the upgrade from 2.6.0 to 22.01 didn't work, but on 2 seperate fresh installs?

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Well first just reboot and confirm it still comes up with the wrong kernel.

                Do you have more that one drive installed? It may be booting from one drive but mounting the filesystem from the other if so. Especially if they are both ZFS using the default 'pfSense' pool name.

                Steve

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                  Zak 0 @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 I do have a 2 drive mirror which is showing as healthy. I can try another install on a spare drive to check, but suspect I will have the same issue with the upgrade from CE to Plus where it had said we recognise your system but got an authentication error trying to upgrade, had to open a TAC lite case who resolved this for me.

                  5248096e-34e8-4edd-a0ab-dae114a0f9b5-image.png

                  I can give it a go and see what happens with just a single spare drive.

                  Thanks

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    Hmm, a ZFS mirror should be fine. Let me test that here...

                    Yes, if you retest you might need to get the cert reset but that's a simple task for us in support, should be very quick.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Tested on a ZFS mirror here and it upgraded fine. Might be something specific in your setup. Hard to say what though. The upgrade log might show something. Or the boot output might show it booting from the wrong drive perhaps?

                      Steve

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                        Zak 0 @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 Thanks for testing this out, I think it was a wider issue there would be a lot more posts about this. I don't see how I could have done anything wrong though since it's all just a couple of clicks, I have built other systems in the past to tinker and never had an issue and I have a Plus system running that has been going for over a year from CE but this new system is to replace that, but I wanted to build from scratch on newer hardware and have a ZFS mirror. I'll try and dig out the upgrade logs to see what happened.

                        I did try to do an upgrade on a single drive and got the authorisation error, I know I can raise another case but I feel bad like I am wasting their time, and will probably need to do another case after that to restore it to the mirrored setup.

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                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Zak 0
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                          PM me the NDI and I can do it if you want to test.

                          I assume it comes up with the wrong kernel at every boot?

                          Steve

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                            Zak 0 @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10 Thanks for the offer, I had already decided to just open a case as I was about to call it a night. I removed the 2 SSDs and replaced with an NVMe drive. This time I installed 2.5.0 -> 2.6.0 and amazingly I got a super quick reply to my case, they offered to remote access the system to see what was going on. I did the upgrade to 22.01 and uname -a showed correctly and this time no issues with temperature sensors and AES-NI was showing as active. Did the upgrade to 22.05 and again uname shows correct and everything works as expected.

                            I really appreciate the help, I am not sure what the issue was, either some problem with the ZFS mirroring and it was reading conflicting data from the disks or somehow the 2.5.0 starting point helped. Interestingly this time, I noticed that the wall of text during the upgrade was much much shorter and faster, not just the result of the faster NVMe drive, it just had less text, this time I recorded the upgrade incase it was showing errors, so I can only assume during the previous upgrade there were lots of errors reported but wasn't paying attention to what they said as I didn't expect any errors, I really don't know. I am happy that it's working and again thanks for your help.

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