23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade

alethewizard

Hi.

Same issue here, but only on one upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 and this is the only one on virtual machine (VMware ESXi).

No issues on all the other upgrades on physical appliances (both CE and Plus).

Thanks.

stephenw10

Try running gpart show on the affected system. See if it has an unexpectedly small efi partition.

alethewizard

@stephenw10

efi (200M)

Thanks.

jrey

@pfBo @alethewizard

since @stephenw10 "unexpectedly small" isn't clearly defined, just for reference my virtual test machine (2.7.2 installed fine) is
40 532480 1 efi (260M)

but the production box (23.09) on a 2100
1 409600 1 efi (200M)

won't be upgrading my production netgate box until Monday, because upgrade policy for production says no upgrades on a Friday! But also have never had an issue with upgrades in the past at the 200 level.

Q. give me "unexpectedly small for 200 please"
A. what is too small?

stephenw10

Both those are expected sizes. If it was tiny, like <10M, that might be an issue but I don't think we've ever used that for amd64 installs.

We are still digging into this.

alethewizard

@stephenw10

Thank you.

I have always updated this VM from 2.4.5 to 2.7.1 without any issues.

jrey

@stephenw10
I figured you we're talking really small. but it is also good to have a reference points..

I honestly don't expect I'll have an issue at the 200 level on the 2100, never have.

I should also point out for reference that my 2.7.2 virtual is running on an Intel host.

stephenw10

Can we assume they are VMs configured as UEFI?

alethewizard

@jrey

Hi jrey.

What is your hypervisor?

Thanks.

stephenw10

@pfBo said in 23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade:

I'm getting this error during the upgrade process (see attached logfile). I wanted to paste it in but kept getting tagged as spam....

Upgrade_error_log.txt

I assume those are just excepts from the upgrade log? Do you have the full log available?

alethewizard

@stephenw10

Yes, EFI Virtual Machine on VMware ESXi.

slu

Same error for me:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184661/unable-to-upgrade-from-2-7-1-to-2-7-2-unmounting-boot-efi-done-failed

jrey

@alethewizard

I'm just running my test pfsense on a Virtual Box, hosted on a local intel MAC.

"Enable EFI" is selected and functioning.

jimp

What does this show for you (or anyone getting similar errors):

# df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/

valerion

@jimp said in 23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade:

What does this show for you (or anyone getting similar errors):
# df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/

[2.7.1-RELEASE][admin@<>]/root: df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
zroot/ROOT/default 95G 1.1G 93G 1% 51k 196M 0% /

[2.7.1-RELEASE][admin@<>]/root: gpart show
=> 40 234454960 ada0 GPT (112G)
40 409600 1 efi (200M)
409640 1024 2 freebsd-boot (512K)
410664 984 - free - (492K)
411648 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
4605952 229847040 4 freebsd-zfs (110G)
234452992 2008 - free - (1.0M)

alethewizard

@valerion

Please read https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184661/unable-to-upgrade-from-2-7-1-to-2-7-2-unmounting-boot-efi-done-failed/15

jimp

The EFI partition isn't mounted there.

Do you have either /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS or /dev/gpt/EFISYS? If so, try this instead:

# mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi

Or

# mount_msdosfs /dev/gpt/EFISYS /boot/efi

Followed by the df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/ command.

valerion

@jimp said in 23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade:

The EFI partition isn't mounted there.

Do you have either /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS or /dev/gpt/EFISYS? If so, try this instead:
# mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi
Or
# mount_msdosfs /dev/gpt/EFISYS /boot/efi
Followed by the df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/ command.

I have the same results as others in the other thread.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS 779K 386K 393K 50% 3 509 1% /boot/efi

Guess there's a re-install in my future