PfSense+ 22.05 -> 23.01 Boot Failure after Upgrade
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@steveits you rock! that worked great
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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 +.
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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
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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.
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Like it filled at update or was already full?
if you roll back to an earlier snapshot how much is used?
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This is my gpart status
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That doesn't show how much of the drive is in use. I assume you see a lot less used space in the hypervisor?
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Do you think if I increase the size from 20GB to 80GB it will solve this installation error?
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Probably, if it;s simply filling the drive at upgrade.
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Would you have any tutorial on how to expand the space within pfsense?
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In some cases,
touch /root/force_growfsand 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.
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That's what I thought... I'm preparing the host to do a clean install of the 23.01 version and later return my backup.
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I did a fresh install straight from version 2.6.0 to version 22.01 and 22.05. When going to s version 23.01 the same problem continues. Locks in masks and that's all... It's difficult.
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Guys, any news? Did you manage to install the 23.01 version normally in Hyper-V or still nothing?
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No updates AFAIK. You're probably better posting in the linked thread above where we were looking at it during beta/RC.
This is probably some issue between the boot loader and the environment presented by Hyper-V. But it only affects some instances. Testing here it always booted and ran fine.
We are looking something similar we had to workaround in Azure that may also apply here. Unfortunately the workaround does not.Steve
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Hello, thanks!
I'll follow up on the other thread then.
I redid the installation from scratch, but the problem still persists. -
I'm experiencing a similar upgrade issue, but from pfSense CE 2.6.0 to 23.01, on Hyper-V 2022, VM configuration 10. There was a closed issue in redmine on this that I added more details to:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13875
I think there are two issues happening, and they seem unrelated, but they are exposed by the boot-time freeze as outlined in this thread:
- /etc/hostid isn't been saved/set after a successful upgrade. this is solveable manually after upgrade while pfSense 23.01 is running with a command in the pfSense shell
- Even if /etc/hostid is corrected, the VM freezes if being started from a power-off state, in the manner communicated.
I can reproduce this 100% of the time. The only thing that makes pfSense actually start up is resetting the VM several times until it boots.
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The hostid error shown at boot is harmless:
can't find '/etc/hostid'Unless you've found something different?
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@stephenw10 if that's the case for hostid, understood.
Otherwise, this is a "me too" stating after the upgrade to 23.01, I'm also experiencing a boot failure as described above and in the Redmine post.
