23.09.a.20230919.1322 boot failure

A Former User

Similar experience rebuilding a prior backup unit (no-name 6-NIC), upgrading from 23.05.

Don't have a backup, so I'll resort to staying on 23.05 for now.

Edit: In my case the file "/etc/rc.be_functions.sh" could not be found.

Last six lines of console reads:
Starting syslog...done.
Starting CRON... done.
">>> Removing unnecessary Packages... done."
">>> Cleanup pkg cache... done."
.: cannot open /etc/rc.be_functions.sh: No such file or directory
Enter full Pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:

webConfigurator is active so GUI access exists until the unit is rebooted.

juanzelli

@jaltman Well, thank you for your sacrifice. I guess I'll be waiting for the next dev build before trying it on my 4100.

w0w

@rschell
This is just BEFORE reboot, after reboot you will have

@jaltman said in 23.09.a.20230919.1322 boot failure:

/bin/sh: cannot open /etc/rc: No such file or directory

at least it was in my case on both lab firewalls and virtual machine too

@rschell said in 23.09.a.20230919.1322 boot failure:

Don't have a backup, so I'll resort to staying on 23.05 for now.

This should be created automatically with boot environments magic.

PatRyan

@jaltman I had the same experience you did upgrading from 23.09.a.20230907 to 23.09.a.20230919 today. 23.09.a.20230907 seemed to be working OK but the upgrade to today's build hung just where yours did.

A Former User

Snapshot 23.09.a.20230920-1314 boots successfully.

jaltman

@rschell Confirmed.

jimp

There was some breakage on the last few builds. The current build that finished a couple hours ago is good.

If you are stuck at that shell prompt at boot, press enter to start a shell and then do this:

UFS:

# mount -a -t ufs
# cp /etc/rc.pkgsave /etc/rc
# reboot

ZFS:

# mount -u /
# cp /etc/rc.pkgsave /etc/rc
# reboot

If your system is booted and running a snapshot from the last couple days, check that you have /etc/rc and /etc/pfSense-rc before updating or rebooting again. If either one is missing, you can copy them from /etc/rc.pkgsave or /etc/pfSense-rc.pkgsave if those files are present. If you don't have those backup copies, there are other ways to get them, such as by re-extracting the base package and/or pfSense package.

juanzelli

@rschell Also, confirmed good on my 4100. Plus, I think this build is using FreeBSD 14 Beta now

Viper_Rus

Hello.
But my situation is different. On 09.23.a.20230919.1322 everything was fine. Today I launched the update to 09.23.a.20230920-1314 and pfsense did not load.

entered the suggested commands:
mount -u /
cp /etc/rc.pkgsave /etc/rc
reboot

And the relboot was successful. Tell me, now everything is ok, then everything will be fine and nothing else needs to be done?

jimp

@Viper_Rus said in 23.09.a.20230919.1322 boot failure:

Hello.
But my situation is different. On 09.23.a.20230919.1322 everything was fine. Today I launched the update to 09.23.a.20230920-1314 and pfsense did not load.

Your situation is exactly what I mentioned in the last paragraph of my post above -- it booted OK that time but the file was missing, so the next reboot would fail even if it was a regular reboot, not just an upgrade.

And the relboot was successful. Tell me, now everything is ok, then everything will be fine and nothing else needs to be done?

You should be OK now if it's booting as expected. Anything else lingering that is wrong would be corrected by the next upgrade you do.

juanzelli

@juanzelli Subsequent bumps up to 23.09.a.20230922.1539 have been fine on my 4100