25.03.b.20250429.1329 boot failure stuck at Updating configuration...

unbekannt3

Hi all,
I'm tryin to update my cheap generic chinese fw box with a J4125 CPU from 24.11 but I can't get it to boot.

It always hangs at “Updating configuration” or when I try to boot the snapshot manually again at “Checking config backups consistency”.

PXL_20250503_152003403.MP_preview.jpg

This was also the case with the previous snapshot 25.03.b.20250414.1838.

Is there anything I could try to resolve this besides a complete reinstall?

What I also noticed is that when I want to display the config history of the updated snapshot in the webgui, the request just runs into a timeout, i.e. as if the update runs through first and then something breaks with the snapshot at the first boot.

Thanks

stephenw10

Hmm, odd. Do you have anything exotic in the config?

If you do install 25.03-beta clean and then restore your 24.11 config into it then you may see more error output at that point.

Are you able to upload your config to us to test?

unbekannt3

@stephenw10 that's my sort of homelab box so yes it's propably a big mess internally :D

can you give me a link to upload the config?

Actually I can sent you the 25.03 config too as Config History from 24.11 was able to load into the boot env after many tries.

stephenw10

Sure, upload them here: https://nc.netgate.com/nextcloud/s/jtLCEPzkt76WMHS

unbekannt3

Done so.

Just for further information, I have 2 SATA SSDs in the FW in a ZFS mirror, 24.11 was a clean install back in November as one of the SSDs failed. Other than that, I don't have anything really “complex”, no external FreeBSD packages or anything else that I would blame it on.

stephenw10

Hmm, it looks like something odd in the pfBlocker-devel pkg description:

> 		<description><![CDATA[(system): Upgraded config version level from 23.6 to 23.9]]></description>
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< 			De-Duplication, Suppression, and Reputation enhancements.&lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
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> 			De-Duplication, Suppression, and Reputation enhancements.&lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Nothing should be required to upgrade there so I'm guessing it's overmatching for some other config tag. Are you able to test uninstalling that and then upgrading?

unbekannt3

Yep that was it.

Thanks for your help :)