PfSense+ 22.05 -> 23.01 Boot Failure after Upgrade

[roach32]

Upgraded 22.05 pfsense+ to 23.01 today and stuck at boot with the following error:

Loading kernel..
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x1a8f80 text=0x1052b58 text=0x1a260c0 data-0x140 data=0x2618c4+0×59d73c 0x8+0x1ccba8+0×8+0×1d7685/
loading configured kernel modules
/boot/kernel/zfs.ko size 0x5b2878 at 0x3ba5000
/etc/hostid size=0×25
/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko size Oxaab0 at 0x4158000
/boot/entropy size=0×1000
staging Oxaa200000 (not copying) tramp Oxb6ac0000 PT4 Oxbab7000
Start @ Oxffffffff803a9000
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, size 0x0000000 , 0×500000
dimensions 1280 × 1024
stride 1280
masks 0x00ff0000. 0x0000ff00. 0x000000ff. 0xff000000

Anyone have any ideas how to get beyond this? I have changed boot environment and gone back to 22.05 for now but I would like to make sure this is up to date pretty soon for security reasons..

[jimp]

What type of hardware or hypervisor is this installation running on?

[roach32]

@jimp

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
  4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
  AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)

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• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz (3292.45-MHz K8-class CPU)
• Real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
• Avail memory = 7926775808 (7559 MB)

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• Intel(R) I217-LM LPT
• Intel(R) Gigabit CT 82574L
• Intel(R) PRO/1000 PT 82572EI (Copper)
• HP NC552SFP/Emulex OCE11102 Dual-Port 10Gb Network Adapter

[SteveITS]

@roach32 FYI on security, there are patches in the System Patches package for 22.05.

[roach32]

@steveits

thanks for this. unfortunately, all pkgs moved to php8.1 so cannot install system patches package on plus 22.05. Getting this msg:

WARNING: Current pkg repository has a new PHP major
version. pfSense should be upgraded before
installing any new package.

[SteveITS]

@roach32 oh that’s great they added a warning! Interesting I don’t see that yet on my 22.05 but might be triggered by trying an install or update.

In System/Update change your branch to Previous Stable Version which is now 22.05, then you can install/update packages. Change to Current to upgrade to 23.01.

[jimp]

I'm not aware of anything that would prevent that specific system from booting, I mostly asked because we had some similar reports from Hyper-V users that it stopped there, but we haven't been able to consistently reproduce that in lab conditions.

To start with I'd check System > Advanced, Admin Access tab and make sure you do not have the serial console enabled.

[jimp]

Also if you get those pkg errors, you might want to force a reinstall of pkg after selecting the previous stable/22.05 branch.

: pkg-static bootstrap -f
: pkg-static update -f

[roach32]

@steveits you rock! that worked great

[roach32]

@jimp

many thanks Jim. serial console isn't enabled. at any rate, I ordered a brand new server to replace this unit today since I have been wanting to upgrade to a proper powerful server to go the TNSR route and retire this one workstation-class box that isn't upgrading to 23.01. the 6 others will remain on pfsense +.

[Snk]

@jimp

I'm also having this problem with Hyper-V, the system won't finish booting.
I left it for more than 2 hours, before returning with the snapshot.
It simply hangs on the message: masks 0x00ff0000. 0x0000ff00. 0x000000ff. 0xff000000
And it doesn't go away for hours.

[stephenw10]

See: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/177220/latest-pfsense-23-01-beta-freezes-on-hyper-v

[Snk]

@stephenw10

My installation of pfsense has 15GB of disk, which leads me to believe that there is no space.
I just tried to update again and it failed again.
I'm completely tied hand and foot.

[stephenw10]

Like it filled at update or was already full?

if you roll back to an earlier snapshot how much is used?

[Snk]

@stephenw10

This is my gpart status
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[stephenw10]

That doesn't show how much of the drive is in use. I assume you see a lot less used space in the hypervisor?

[Snk]

@stephenw10

Do you think if I increase the size from 20GB to 80GB it will solve this installation error?

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[stephenw10]

Probably, if it;s simply filling the drive at upgrade.

[Snk]

@stephenw10

Would you have any tutorial on how to expand the space within pfsense?

[jimp]

In some cases, touch /root/force_growfs and then rebooting is sufficient. But that depends on which part of the disk is running out of space. That's quick and easy to try.

A clean install of a recent base is best if you can.