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    Newest Snapshot broke system

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 1.2.3-PRERELEASE-TESTING snapshots - RETIRED
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      sigma
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      I had the same with this snapshot (not Upgrade):

      pfSense-1.2.3-2g-20090708-0432-nanobsd.img

      but this one works:

      pfSense-1.2.3-2g-20090708-0846-nanobsd.img

      both seems to be from 8th of July. The one which not works a few hours earlier.

      All is working, but in System/Packages it's not possible to insert any packages. Maybe the filesystem on CF is read only? Could be.

      Installation of AutoConfigBackup FAILED!

      Downloading package configuration file… failed!
      Installation aborted.
      Installation halted.

      Sigma

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        hansru
        last edited by

        Same for me,
        Everything halted. Maybe I need to do a fresh install?

        Somewhat disappointed..

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          Slam
          last edited by

          Samething happened to me last night on a production system, Ive had 3 hours sleep  :D

          Upgrades churn out a lot of errors and it looks like some sort of php modules symbols error if remember correctly, full installs of the same date seem to work fine with the exception of an error that shows up after system start up beeps.

          Starting captive portal…
          ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, nat loadable, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
          done

          Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mwxec() in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 1085
          Starting CRON...
          done.
          Syncing packages

          Slam

          EDIT: Using 1.2.3-RC2
          built on Wed Jul 8 19:40:50 EDT 2009
          FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 i386

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            sigma
            last edited by

            Update: I don't know why, but I have 2 pieces 4 Giga CF and one 2 Giga CF. With one of the 4 Giga CF I have the same problem as written here. the other works well and I write the image allways the same way. The one which don't works is an slc type.

            Sigma

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              untal3nted
              last edited by

              @hansru:

              Same for me,
              Everything halted. Maybe I need to do a fresh install?

              Somewhat disappointed..

              I was somewhat disappointed at first also, but lets look at the big picture, these are release candidate snapshots.  Not full out tested stable releases.  If this is going on a production or 'must be in service' system, maybe the update should of been tested first via vmware?  or maybe you should just be using a known 'STABLE' release, instead of basically bleeding edge.  I was surprised though, that the live cd rescue config option did not work either.  Hopefully people had backups in place.  Lessons learned for everyone, should be common practice, backups & testing before putting into production!!

              Any another note, does anyone have word on what the issue was?  Has it been corrected in the most recent snapshots?

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                ryates
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                From the liveCD, one should be able to mount the hard drive and copy the config.xml even if the console "rescue config.xml" fails, as I did (and then I found my backup :P). Or was that a problem for some?

                A backup /conf/config.xml on an inserted thumbdrive is a great way to reinstall in case of calamity on a PC system. Does that work with CF as well (assuming you have an usb port)?

                Some of the *.inc scripts in /etc/inc of the failed update  were quite different from those present once I got back up. So I suspect there were changes under the hood that turned into trip wires…

                ryts

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                  ryates
                  last edited by

                  "Any another note, does anyone have word on what the issue was?  Has it been corrected in the most recent snapshots?"

                  Not sure, as I am sitting tight on the fresh working install.  As Slam hinted, there may have been a difference between updates and fresh installs, ie. a problem with the updates….

                  ryts

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                    heiko
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                    No, for me it is not fixed at the moment, I have updated last night with a recent snapshot and it breaks my system.

                    Wait and take a look in the repository für 1.2x…....

                    Regards
                    heiko

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                      simby
                      last edited by

                      Is it safe to upgrade?

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                        heiko
                        last edited by

                        Upgrade from what? 1.2 to 1.23 RC2??

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                          simby
                          last edited by

                          yes :)

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                            untal3nted
                            last edited by

                            Just an update, it appears all is good now.  Just updated:

                            New version:    Sun Jul 12 04:51:52 EDT 2009
                            Current version: 1.2.3-RC2

                            1.2.3-RC2
                            built on Sun Jul 12 01:54:58 EDT 2009

                            No issues what so ever, or errors.  All seems good.  Wonder if the issues had to do with the full file system on the snapshot server??

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                              DeCex
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                              Im back on pfSense  ;D

                              Lucky me i have WRT54GL with Tomato as backup.

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