Attempting to update to 23.01 DEVEL corrupts my pfSense installation

stephenw10

Failed upgrading from 2.6 to 22.01? Nothing has changed there AFAIK. Testing...

michaellacroix

@stephenw10
Thanks for testing, hoping its just me...

stephenw10

Upgrades still working as expected for me here. No change since I last tested it. Which is as expected since nothing has changed there.

michaellacroix

@stephenw10

Thanks for testing for me. Tonight I'll try again. I'm going to do a fresh install of 2.6 to plus to dev.

michaellacroix

I updated successfully last night from 2.6 to plus 22.01 to 22.05 to 23.01 no problem.
Restored a test config containing haproxy and a few other apps to 23.01 and worked successfully.
No switch or script needed once on 23.01

Any new news on when the RC will be? I'm gonna chalk up to the night before upgrade issues maybe some type of network issue. Thanks again for testing the upgrade for me.

stephenw10

'Real soon now'

No way to know for sure. There are still a few things we need to iron out before we can build an RC. But not many.

Steve

yellowRain

@yellowrain 23.01 upgrade success :
-GUI feels snappier
-Upload speed improved ;)

23.01-BETA (amd64)
built on Fri Jan 06 06:04:43 UTC 2023
FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT

Had to :
-reverse to 22.05 branch,
-"pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade" (https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/upgrades.html),
-switch to 23.01 DEVEL
-upgrade.

michaellacroix

Thanks @stephenw10,

One thing I wanted to let you know in my testing on my test machine their was an issue with the realktec re0 driver. On pfsense 22.05 default config out of the box my speed tests show proper up/down speeds for my isp connection. After upgrading to 23.01 my upload speeds suffer significantly. Here is a screen shot:
WAN - re0
LAN - em0

stephenw10

Hmm, you see any errors on the interface?

michaellacroix

@stephenw10

Not any from the interface status page

chickendog

Hmm did we just skip a version?

mtarbox

@chickendog did it work?
Says one of the files can't be found, and fails for me.

michaellacroix

@stephenw10
My guess is their was a driver change in freebsd 14?

mtarbox

@chickendog ignore my previous post. I did have a failure from the cli, but it seems to have resolved.
Now I have this weirdness:

23.05-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Mon Jan 09 06:04:59 UTC 2023
FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT

The system is on a later version than official release.
Version information updated at Mon Jan 9 8:19:14 EST 2023

chickendog

@mtarbox Yeah I didn't try update, seemed too scary to go from 23.01 Beta to 23.05 Alpha.
Was scared a dev committed the wrong thing accidentally

tedquade

@chickendog 23.01 RC is out now.

Ted Quade

michaellacroix

@tedquade

Is 20230109-0600 the RC release? My pfsense update page is still showing 23.01.b.20230106.0600 as the latest dev

stephenw10

The branch only just happened so at this point 23.05a is almost identical to 23.01. BUT you don't want to be on that branch because downgrading is far more difficult so I would wait until you see 23.01r (RC) offered. Which should be shortly.

(If you are running ZFS of course you can just roll back the BE)

michaellacroix

@stephenw10 Awesome, thanks Stephen

mtarbox

@stephenw10 well of course I jumped on that sword.
Everything seemed fine when I left the house this morning, and I haven't had any angry texts yet today.