fatal error when upgrading from 2.7.2 to 2.8.1
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Hi all,
I am leaving the following screenshot here in case it makes sense to anyone and can provide any useful input.
CARP in Persistent Maintenance Mode.
All services from installed packages stopped.
All packages uninstalled.
System rebooted.
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@deb8 With a problem of that nature (looks like a driver related kernel panic ?) you're probably not going to get any replies unless you detail what hardware you're running PFSense on - device and/or motherboard, network adaptors etc...
It looks like you have Wireless - is it on a laptop or a mini PC with built in Wireless, and are you actually using Wireless ?
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This is a known issue with the latest FreeBSD kernel used in pfSense 2.8.x. A forum search will find several posts about it.
The solution is to disable the wireless hardware in your appliance or PC. If it's a physical card, remove the card. If built-in to the motherboard (most likely this is the case), you will need to disable the wireless port in the BIOS of the motherboard.
Here are some links to the pfSense Reddit where this is mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/1kzlwoa/fatal_trap_12_error_while_upgrading_to_280/.
And here is another link to a thread on the Netgate forums: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/195402/kernel-panic-after-upgrade-to-24-11/2.
And one additional external link: https://lumitiv.com/kb/upgrading-to-pfsense-2-8-0-fatal-trap-12-wireless-card-error/
The links above give you a method to disable loading of the wireless adapter within the FreeBSD kernel.
And in the spirit of teaching the OP "how to fish"
-- perform a Google search with this phrase and some of the first returned results are the top links I referenced: "pfsense iwm error". -
@bmeeks I'm going to guess this is one of the gotchas of PFSense now basing itself on the development tree of FreeBSD instead of stable..
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@DBMandrake said in fatal error when upgrading from 2.7.2 to 2.8.1:
@bmeeks I'm going to guess this is one of the gotchas of PFSense now basing itself on the development tree of FreeBSD instead of stable..
Well, maybe partially. But I think the bigger cause is the general lagging behind in FreeBSD of new hardware support. FreeBSD has always seemed to lag behind Linux (and of course, Windows) with new hardware support. I guess the user base is just not large enough to motivate hardware vendors to create FreeBSD drivers at the same time they create Linux ones.
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Yup, known issue: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16237
Just remove the wifi card if you can.
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Hi all,
Thanks for all the info provided, much appreciated.
I can confirm that disabling in BIOS the WiFi card solved the issue.
I was able to upgrade to 2.8.1 without an issue.Thanks!
