Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development

kevindd992002

@stephenw10 Thanks for the recommendation. Though I have a couple of question before trying to upgrade:

Does this mean I should try installing 2.6 (STABLE) on my box (which has 2.7.0.a.20220714.0600) first before trying to upgrade to the devel version?

If I remove all packages before upgrading and install them one by one after, will the package configuration be lost along the way?

Does it work with a ZFS install on a BIOS?

stephenw10

You should be able to upgrade in place from that version by running those three commands first. If you're going to reinstall just install the current 2.7 snapshot directly.
Package config should be retained. Some packages have an option to remove all config at uninstall but that is not the default.
If you are using a legacy BIOS that issue never applied, it will upgrade fine.
However the new EFI loader in current snaps should allow that anyway. I haven't tested it yet though.

Steve

kevindd992002

What do the two other commands (after the first three) do?

Would it make sense to stay at 2.7 (or in general dev) or switch to 2.6 stable?

stephenw10

Those other command check that is can see updates and run the actual upgrade at the CLI. You can use those if you want or just use the webgui upgrade.

It depends why you're running dev in the first place. Was it just to test it? If this is a test box then it makes no sense to stay on an obsolete snapshot.

Steve

kevindd992002

@stephenw10 can you confirm if the update should work now without running those commands as mentioned here?

grandrivers

I wonder if the upgrade issue with zfs boot drives been fixed ?

jimp

@grandrivers said in Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development:

I wonder if the upgrade issue with zfs boot drives been fixed ?

Yes, the EFI+ZFS upgrade issue has been fixed for a while. There is a new mechanism which updates the loader during the upgrade process.

w0w

It looks like 23.01 is available for upgrading from 22.05. Tried this on my test setup. You need to change the branch to "Experimental 23.01 devel" and then try the option 13. In my case the first time it ended in broken state, thanks to BOOT Environments I got it back and running, the second try was successful, it asked for pkg bootstrap -f and this time I did it, only pfBlockerNG-devel was broken after boot. Reinstalled packages, all seemed working until I went to option 13 and it searched for updates again telling me that everything is up-to-date and then asked me to proceed with update Y/N, I've chosen "NO" but no WEB UI since, everything looks working but not the WEB UI, restart does not help... I am not sure, am I doing something wrong or just 23.01 still not ready for testing?

stephenw10

Hmm, I suspect you are in a state somewhere between the two. Did you still have the dev branch selected when you ran the upgrade a second time?
Try running freebsd-version -kur that should report the same version for all three.

Steve

w0w

@stephenw10 said in Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development:

freebsd-version -kur

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I did another try now. This time I've uninstalled all packages, then switched to devel, went to option 13, it asked for pkg bootstrap -f
I did that and then again to the option 13, and it upgraded to the
23.01.a.20221111.0600
I've restored the configuration only for package manager.
The branch selection is now empty, but on the dashboard it shows
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stephenw10

Hmm, was that instance upgraded from CE previously?
The branch selector will show empty like that if the NDI shows as no longer valid for some reason.

You shouldn't ever have to manually run the pkg bootstrap like that. Did you try upgrading through the the gui first?

Steve

w0w

@stephenw10 said in Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development:

Hmm, was that instance upgraded from CE previously?

Yes.

@stephenw10 said in Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development:

The branch selector will show empty like that if the NDI shows as no longer valid for some reason.

You shouldn't ever have to manually run the pkg bootstrap like that. Did you try upgrading through the the gui first?

No, I did not. I went to the console first, just did it out of habit... This bootstrap thing... I don't think it really needed, because it does not ask it every time I've tried to upgrade.

stephenw10

Hmm, well if it's still not showing you any branches it's because the server doesn't recognise the NDI for some reason. Has it changed?

w0w

@stephenw10
Perhaps I should clarify that the original version was CE 2.6, updated to 22.05, as you know, you have to update twice on 22.01 and then to 22.05. If now, for example, you have installed the latest CE 2.7 and trying to upgrade it to Plus version, you will get a downgrade effect like on the picture

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If you try to do the such an upgrade, it will break your installation completely.

If you try to update the version 22.05 in console, you end with 23.01 version, but no branch appearing after upgrade.
NDI is still the same, and I can install packages and check for updates,
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That make me think that some internal branch is selected somehow.

kevindd992002

@stephenw10

I'm trying to do a webgui upgrade now (I still haven't went thru it since two weeks ago when we were talking about this) but all I see now when I go to System -> Update is "unable to check for updates". Do you know what's causing this?

stephenw10

@kevindd992002
Run pkg-static -d update at the command line and see what error it returns.

stephenw10

@w0w said in Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development:

If now, for example, you have installed the latest CE 2.7 and trying to upgrade it to Plus version, you will get a downgrade effect like on the picture

Yes, upgrading from CE 2.7 to Plus is not supported. Yet.

w0w

Yep. Something new today.
Installed this build and was able to install pfBlockerNG-devel...

kevindd992002

@stephenw10 said in Error upgrading from 22.05 Release to 22.11 Development:

@kevindd992002
Run pkg-static -d update at the command line and see what error it returns.

Ahh, I thought the wrong OS version fix was already incorporated in the GUI update process. So I run these?

pkg-static -o ABI=FreeBSD:14:amd64 -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes update
pkg-static -o ABI=FreeBSD:14:amd64 -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes upgrade -fy pkg
pkg-static -o ABI=FreeBSD:14:amd64 -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes upgrade -fy pfSense-upgrade

stephenw10

Yes, since you still appear to be running a 12.3 kernel you will need to run those first to allow it.

Steve