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    Is nanobsd web-based upgrade supposed to be working now?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 1.2.3-PRERELEASE-TESTING snapshots - RETIRED
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      gloomrider
      last edited by

      What output does this command give?:

      
      ls /dev/ad0*
      
      
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        pakjebakmeel
        last edited by

        @gloomrider:

        What output does this command give?:

        
        ls /dev/ad0*
        
        

        pfsense:~#  ls -l /dev/ad0*

        crw-r–---  1 root  operator    0,  66 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  67 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s1
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  70 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s1a
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  71 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s1c
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  68 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s2
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  72 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s2a
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  73 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s2c
        crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  69 Aug 23 20:09 /dev/ad0s3

        After the upgrade some are missing.. Could it have something to do with my config, or perhaps something with this specific snapshot? Should this work regardless of the XML config?

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          gloomrider
          last edited by

          This all looks fine.  Are you able to attach a serial cable?  Are you certain you're "tailing" the log before you start uploading the upgrade file through the web GUI?

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            pakjebakmeel
            last edited by

            @gloomrider:

            This all looks fine.  Are you able to attach a serial cable?  Are you certain you're "tailing" the log before you start uploading the upgrade file through the web GUI?

            I've flashed the latest image onto the card now and it is working. When the next snapshot is released I will connect the console cable and post what happens on the console. Would I need to start "tail" on the console or will just the console output do?

            Ow, just for fun I tried an upgrade to "pfSense-2.0-ALPHA-ALPHA-4g-20090821-0521-nanobsd-upgrade.img" and that worked fine. As this is still alpha I'm now back on 1.2.3-RC2.

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              gloomrider
              last edited by

              Yes, if you use the serial console to watch the upgrade, you would want to "tail -f /cf/conf/upgrade_log.txt" before you upload the upgrade file through the GUI.  The nice thing about doing this through the serial console is you also get to watch which slice it boots from.

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                pakjebakmeel
                last edited by

                It could have been something with the previous snapshot. This update succeeded  ;D ;D ;D

                
                NanoBSD Firmware upgrade in progress...
                
                Installing /root/firmware.tgz.
                Installing /root/firmware.tgz.
                SLICE 2
                OLDSLICE 1
                TOFLASH ad0s2
                COMPLETE_PATH ad0s2a
                GLABEL_SLICE pfsense1
                Wed Aug 26 14:20:37 CEST 2009
                
                total 8
                dr-xr-xr-x   7 root   wheel          512 Aug 26 12:18 .
                drwxr-xr-x  23 root   wheel         1024 Aug 26 12:18 ..
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  66 Aug 26 12:18 ad0
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  67 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s1
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  70 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s1a
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  71 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s1c
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  68 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s2
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  72 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s2a
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  73 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s2c
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  69 Aug 26 12:18 ad0s3
                crw-------   1 root   operator    0,  25 Aug 26 12:18 ata
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  74 Aug 26 12:19 bpf0
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  76 Aug 26 12:18 bpf1
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  86 Aug 26 12:18 bpf2
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  94 Aug 26 14:17 bpf3
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  95 Aug 26 12:18 bpf4
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  96 Aug 26 12:18 bpf5
                crw-------   1 root   tty         0,  10 Aug 26 14:20 console
                crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel       0,  53 Aug 26 12:18 crypto
                crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel       0,  11 Aug 26 12:18 ctty
                crw-rw----   1 uucp   dialer      0,  43 Aug 26 12:18 cuad0
                crw-rw----   1 uucp   dialer      0,  44 Aug 26 12:18 cuad0.init
                crw-rw----   1 uucp   dialer      0,  45 Aug 26 12:18 cuad0.lock
                crw-rw----   1 uucp   dialer      0,  49 Aug 26 12:18 cuad1
                crw-rw----   1 uucp   dialer      0,  50 Aug 26 12:18 cuad1.init
                crw-rw----   1 uucp   dialer      0,  51 Aug 26 12:18 cuad1.lock
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,   5 Aug 26 12:18 devctl
                cr--------   1 root   wheel       0,  65 Aug 26 12:18 devstat
                dr-xr-xr-x   2 root   wheel          512 Aug 26 12:18 fd
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  12 Aug 26 12:18 fido
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,   4 Aug 26 12:18 geom.ctl
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  22 Aug 26 12:18 io
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,   7 Aug 26 12:18 klog
                crw-r-----   1 root   kmem        0,  21 Aug 26 12:18 kmem
                dr-xr-xr-x   2 root   wheel          512 Aug 26 12:18 led
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  84 Aug 26 12:18 md0
                crw-r-----   1 root   operator    0,  85 Aug 26 12:18 md1
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  63 Aug 26 12:18 mdctl
                crw-r-----   1 root   kmem        0,  20 Aug 26 12:18 mem
                dr-xr-xr-x   2 root   wheel          512 Aug 26 12:18 net
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            7 Aug 26 12:18 net1 -> net/vr0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            7 Aug 26 12:18 net2 -> net/vr1
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            7 Aug 26 12:18 net3 -> net/vr2
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            8 Aug 26 12:18 net4 -> net/ath0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel           10 Aug 26 12:18 net5 -> net/pflog0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel           11 Aug 26 12:18 net6 -> net/pfsync0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            8 Aug 26 12:18 net7 -> net/enc0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            7 Aug 26 12:18 net8 -> net/lo0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            8 Aug 26 12:19 net9 -> net/tun0
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,   3 Aug 26 12:18 network
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  52 Aug 26 12:18 nfs4
                crw-------   1 root   kmem        0,  13 Aug 26 12:18 nfslock
                crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel       0,  23 Aug 26 14:20 null
                crw-r--r--   1 root   wheel       0,   6 Aug 26 12:18 pci
                crw-rw----   1 proxy  proxy       0,  54 Aug 26 12:18 pf
                crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel       0,  97 Aug 26 14:20 ptyp0
                crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel       0,   8 Aug 26 12:18 random
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            4 Aug 26 12:18 stderr -> fd/2
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            4 Aug 26 12:18 stdin -> fd/0
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            4 Aug 26 12:18 stdout -> fd/1
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  40 Aug 26 12:18 ttyd0
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  41 Aug 26 12:18 ttyd0.init
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  42 Aug 26 12:18 ttyd0.lock
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  46 Aug 26 12:18 ttyd1
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  47 Aug 26 12:18 ttyd1.init
                crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  48 Aug 26 12:18 ttyd1.lock
                crw--w----   1 root   tty         0,  98 Aug 26 14:20 ttyp0
                crw-------   1 uucp   dialer      0,  87 Aug 26 14:20 tun0
                dr-xr-xr-x   2 root   wheel          512 Aug 26 12:18 ufs
                dr-xr-xr-x   2 root   wheel          512 Aug 26 12:18 ufsid
                lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel            6 Aug 26 12:18 urandom -> random
                crw-rw----   1 root   operator    0,  38 Aug 26 12:18 usb
                crw-rw----   1 root   operator    0,  37 Aug 26 12:18 usb0
                crw-rw----   1 root   operator    0,  39 Aug 26 12:18 usb1
                crw-------   1 root   operator    0,  64 Aug 26 12:18 xpt0
                crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel       0,  24 Aug 26 12:18 zero
                
                -rw-------  1 root  wheel    40M Aug 26 14:19 /root/firmware.tgz
                
                MD5 (/root/firmware.tgz) = 8b457e76d20107d7627bc685a9d193c7
                
                /dev/ufs/pfsense0 on / (ufs, local)
                devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
                /dev/md0 on /var/tmp (ufs, local)
                /dev/md1 on /var (ufs, local)
                /dev/ufs/cf on /cf (ufs, local)
                devfs on /var/dhcpd/dev (devfs, local)
                
                last pid: 24015;  load averages:  1.65,  0.58,  0.22  up 0+02:02:24    14:20:40
                39 processes:  2 running, 37 sleeping
                
                Mem: 47M Active, 65M Inact, 28M Wired, 40K Cache, 34M Buf, 99M Free
                Swap:
                
                  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
                  890 root        1   4    0 46120K 20636K accept   0:52  0.00% php
                  507 root        1  44    0  5944K  3908K select   0:48  0.00% openvpn
                  873 root        1   4    0  7180K  4780K kqread   0:30  0.00% lighttpd
                  888 root        1   4    0 44072K 17804K accept   0:05  0.00% php
                 1767 root        1  -8   20  3492K  1388K piperd   0:03  0.00% sh
                  882 root        1   4    0 44072K 17528K accept   0:03  0.00% php
                 1554 root        1   8   20  3156K   800K nanslp   0:01  0.00% check_reload_status
                21671 root        1  44    0  7780K  3280K select   0:01  0.00% sshd
                  420 root        1  44    0  3312K  1492K select   0:00  0.00% hostapd
                  944 nobody      1  44    0  3156K  1316K select   0:00  0.00% dnsmasq
                21839 root        1  20    0  3508K  2288K pause    0:00  0.00% tcsh
                  483 root        1 -58    0  5716K  2252K bpf      0:00  0.00% tcpdump
                  247 root        1  44    0  3268K  1124K select   0:00  0.00% syslogd
                11251 _ntp        1  44    0  3156K  1228K select   0:00  0.00% ntpd
                  874 root        1   8    0 39976K  5264K wait     0:00  0.00% php
                  881 root        1   8    0 39976K  5264K wait     0:00  0.00% php
                  886 root        1   8    0 39976K  5264K wait     0:00  0.00% php
                  484 root        1  -8    0  3156K   764K piperd   0:00  0.00% logger
                
                NanoBSD upgrade starting
                
                dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s2 bs=1m count=1
                1+0 records in
                1+0 records out
                1048576 bytes transferred in 0.204520 secs (5127010 bytes/sec)
                
                /usr/bin/gzip -dc /root/firmware.tgz | /bin/dd of=/dev/ad0s2 obs=64k
                3949906+635 records in
                30861+1 records out
                2022547968 bytes transferred in 391.879336 secs (5161150 bytes/sec)
                After upgrade fdisk/bsdlabel
                
                /sbin/fsck_ufs -y /dev/ad0s2a
                ** /dev/ad0s2a
                ** Last Mounted on /tmp/builder/_.mnt
                ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
                ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
                ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
                ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
                ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
                3436 files, 161085 used, 3723055 free (4447 frags, 464826 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
                
                /sbin/tunefs -L pfsense1 /dev/ad0s2a
                
                /dev/ufs/pfsense1 / ufs ro 1 1
                /dev/ufs/cf /cf ufs ro 1 1
                
                gpart set -a active -i 2 ad0
                ad0s2 has active set
                
                /usr/sbin/boot0cfg -s 2 -v /dev/ad0
                #   flag     start chs   type       end chs       offset         size
                1   0x00      0:  1: 1   0xa5    846: 15:63           63      3950289
                2   0x80    847:  1: 1   0xa5    669: 15:63      3950415      3950289
                3   0x00    670:  0: 1   0xa5    771: 15:63      7900704       102816
                
                version=1.0  drive=0x80  mask=0x3  ticks=182  bell=# (0x23)
                options=packet,update,nosetdrv
                default_selection=F2 (Slice 2)
                Wed Aug 26 14:27:33 CEST 2009
                
                *** FINAL System shutdown message from root@pfsense.local ***
                System going down IMMEDIATELY
                
                
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                  gloomrider
                  last edited by

                  Cool!  ;D

                  This is the 4G update I see.  Did you happen to notice it took 6.5 minutes to flash one slice?  :o

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                    pakjebakmeel
                    last edited by

                    @gloomrider:

                    Cool!  ;D

                    This is the 4G update I see.  Did you happen to notice it took 6.5 minutes to flash one slice?  :o

                    Yes, 6.5 minutes of worrying that I might need to open the case again  :D The CF controllers on ALIX boards don't seem to be very fast :-) So what do I do now? Do I need to copy Slice2 to Slice1 or just leave it like this? What happens if I invoke the next upgrade? Does it then upgrade Slice1 and the set that one active and reboot?

                    –---------------------

                    EDIT:

                    I see we cheered a bit too soon:

                    
                    pfsense:~#  fdisk
                    
                    ******* Working on device /dev/ufs/pfsense1 *******
                    parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
                    cylinders=3918 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                    
                    Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
                    parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
                    cylinders=3918 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                    
                    fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
                    Media sector size is 512
                    Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
                    Information from DOS bootblock is:
                    The data for partition 1 is:
                    sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                        start 63, size 3949281 (1928 Meg), flag 80 (active)
                            beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
                            end: cyl 845/ head 15/ sector 63
                    The data for partition 2 is:
                     <unused>The data for partition 3 is:
                     <unused>The data for partition 4 is:
                     <unused>pfsense:~#  ls -l /dev/ad0*
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  66 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  67 Aug 26 22:15 /dev/ad0s1
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  68 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s2
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  72 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s2a
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  73 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s2c
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  69 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s3</unused></unused></unused> 
                    

                    So now fdisk shows that there is no second partition and I'm missing some stuff under /dev/ad*

                    darnit.. Everything still works though..

                    UPDATE2:

                    After duplicating Slice2 to Slice1 the ls -l /dev/ad0* seems okay again. Fdisk is still reporting only 1 partition and an invalid parition table??  ??? ??? ??? ???

                    
                    pfsense:~#  fdisk
                    ******* Working on device /dev/ufs/pfsense1 *******
                    parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
                    cylinders=3918 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                    
                    Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
                    parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
                    cylinders=3918 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                    
                    fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
                    Media sector size is 512
                    Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
                    Information from DOS bootblock is:
                    The data for partition 1 is:
                    sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                        start 63, size 3949281 (1928 Meg), flag 80 (active)
                            beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
                            end: cyl 845/ head 15/ sector 63
                    The data for partition 2 is:
                     <unused>The data for partition 3 is:
                     <unused>The data for partition 4 is:
                     <unused>pfsense:~#  ls -l /dev/ad*
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  66 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  67 Aug 26 22:30 /dev/ad0s1
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 101 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s1a
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 102 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s1c
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  68 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s2
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  72 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s2a
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  73 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s2c
                    crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  69 Aug 26 14:28 /dev/ad0s3</unused></unused></unused> 
                    
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                      gloomrider
                      last edited by

                      Interesting.  The log output shows the update seemed to work as expected.  Just curious, did the update not work, or are you just concerned with what fdisk is saying?

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                        pakjebakmeel
                        last edited by

                        The update worked fine, I'm running the 26th snapshot now. No issues whatsoever.

                        But the experience with this Fdisk output tells me the next upgrade will fail  ::)

                        Could someone please briefly explain the differences between slices, partitions and the /dev/ad0* files and how they relate to each other?  ???

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                          gloomrider
                          last edited by

                          @pakjebakmeel:

                          The update worked fine, I'm running the 26th snapshot now. No issues whatsoever.

                          But the experience with this Fdisk output tells me the next upgrade will fail  ::)

                          Could someone please briefly explain the differences between slices, partitions and the /dev/ad0* files and how they relate to each other?  ???

                          There was a new 4G snapshot posted yesterday.  Have you tried it?

                          Edit: Oops, you're running that.  FYI: /dev/ufs/pfsense0 = slice 1 and /dev/ufs/pfsense1 = slice 2.  You should try running fsck on the slice you're NOT running on.

                          
                          /sbin/fsck_ufs -y /dev/ad0s1a
                          
                          
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                            pakjebakmeel
                            last edited by

                            Got this now:

                            
                            pfsense:~#  /sbin/fsck_ufs -y /dev/ad0s1a
                            ** /dev/ad0s1a (NO WRITE)
                            ** Last Mounted on /
                            ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
                            ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
                            ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
                            ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
                            ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
                            7966 files, 276870 used, 3607270 free (4254 frags, 450377 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
                            
                            pfsense:~#  fdisk 
                            ******* Working on device /dev/ufs/pfsense1 *******
                            parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
                            cylinders=3918 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                            
                            Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
                            parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
                            cylinders=3918 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                            
                            fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
                            Media sector size is 512
                            Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
                            Information from DOS bootblock is:
                            The data for partition 1 is:
                            sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                                start 63, size 3949281 (1928 Meg), flag 80 (active)
                            	beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
                            	end: cyl 845/ head 15/ sector 63
                            The data for partition 2 is:
                             <unused>The data for partition 3 is:
                             <unused>The data for partition 4 is:
                             <unused>pfsense:~#</unused></unused></unused> 
                            
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                              gloomrider
                              last edited by

                              I see it now.  fdisk is auto-selecting the mounted root file system which has no partition table.  If you want to see the partition table:

                              EDIT:

                              
                              fdisk /dev/ad0
                              
                              

                              Be careful and don't write anything unless you know what you're doing.

                              I think you'll be fine for the next snap  :)

                              EDIT:

                              Here's mine:

                              
                              router:~#  fdisk /dev/ad0
                              ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
                              parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
                              cylinders=3970 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                              
                              Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
                              parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
                              cylinders=3970 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
                              
                              Media sector size is 512
                              Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
                              Information from DOS bootblock is:
                              The data for partition 1 is:
                              sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                                  start 63, size 1949409 (951 Meg), flag 80 (active)
                                      beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
                                      end: cyl 909/ head 15/ sector 63
                              The data for partition 2 is:
                              sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                                  start 1949535, size 1949409 (951 Meg), flag 0
                                      beg: cyl 910/ head 1/ sector 1;
                                      end: cyl 795/ head 15/ sector 63
                              The data for partition 3 is:
                              sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                                  start 3898944, size 102816 (50 Meg), flag 0
                                      beg: cyl 796/ head 0/ sector 1;
                                      end: cyl 897/ head 15/ sector 63
                              The data for partition 4 is:
                              
                              
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                                jzsjr
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                                Every time I attempt to upgrade (2gig nano file) I get a message after a bit I get a failure due to the upgrade image being larger than the partition.  I remember reading earlier someone have the same issue but could not find it after searching the term.  I started the tail but all I got was:
                                pfsense:~#  tail -f /cf/conf/upgrade_log.txtWARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found
                                63

                                NanoBSD Firmware upgrade in progress…

                                Installing /root/firmware.tgz.
                                Installing /root/firmware.tgz.
                                SLICE 1
                                OLDSLICE 2
                                TOFLASH ad0s1
                                COMPLETE_PATH ad0s1a
                                GLABEL_SLICE pfsense0
                                NanoBSD Firmware upgrade in progress...

                                Broadcast Message from root@pfsense.local
                                        (no tty) at 12:40 EDT...

                                NanoBSD Firmware upgrade in progress...

                                Installing /root/firmware.tgz.
                                Installing /root/firmware.tgz.
                                SLICE 1
                                OLDSLICE 2
                                TOFLASH ad0s1
                                COMPLETE_PATH ad0s1a
                                GLABEL_SLICE pfsense0

                                Broadcast Message from root@pfsense.local
                                        (no tty) at 12:40 EDT...

                                thanks,
                                Jim

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                                  gloomrider
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                                  As you can see in this thread, my first successful upgrade attempt was August 9th.  Prior to that, I was just reflashing every time a new snap appeared on the server.  Perhaps at some point the size of the disk images changed and I never noticed it because I was reflashing the whole CF card.  This is all speculation of course, but it might be useful to reflash (this is where multiple CF cards come in handy) and wait for the next snap, attempt an update and see what happens.  I haven't had any issues since 8/9 and I have updated with every new update on the snapshot server.

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                                    jzsjr
                                    last edited by

                                    10-4 Gloomrider.  I have multiple CFs and reflash regularly when an update comes out and I am unable to update via the gui or the console.  I just have not had any luck with this yet.  I settled on the 2gig image since it looked middle of the road and that my cf card is 4gigs.  It formats just under that size so I was worried that the 4 gig image/dual partitions would not exactly fit.  I thought things were looking up when you and the other gentleman were successful in upgrading but no, I am still reflashing:(

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                                      gloomrider
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                                      When was the last time/snapshot you reflashed?  It would seem only manual update is working.  I think auto-update is still trying to use the old embedded (AKA broken) paradigm.

                                      Nanobsd images that I download from http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/updates are updating fine for me.

                                      EDIT: I wonder if the fact you're using a different size card has anything to do with it?  Why don't you try a 4GB image on your 4GB card?

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                                        gloomrider
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                                        @jzsjr:

                                        10-4 Gloomrider.  I have multiple CFs and reflash regularly when an update comes out and I am unable to update via the gui or the console.  I just have not had any luck with this yet.  I settled on the 2gig image since it looked middle of the road and that my cf card is 4gigs.  It formats just under that size so I was worried that the 4 gig image/dual partitions would not exactly fit.  I thought things were looking up when you and the other gentleman were successful in upgrading but no, I am still reflashing:(

                                        Check out this thread: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,18805.0.html

                                        This looks an awful lot like what you and others are reporting.  I have been using "dd" under both Linux and FreeBSD to flash my 2GB Sandisk cards and I've not had any of these problems.

                                        EDIT: It appears there are subtly different sizes of CF cards.  See this post: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,18805.msg96698.html#msg96698

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                                          sigi
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                                          Hi,

                                          running embedded since longtime. Now I wanted to switch from embedded to nanobsd, because reflashing, resizing  and move rrd's from time to time sucks. First, what I learned: no more WRAP. No problem have ALIX'es too. Also read about bigger Memory nedded. No problem, have plenty of 1GB CF.

                                          But I spent hours to test the Update mechanism. Not one success. Fails anytime. Manual, Auto, Console. I thought I have FreeBSD experience since Years. But no Idea what is going on here.

                                          at the moment I test from pfSense-1.2.3-1g-20090824-1854-nanobsd

                                          Option 13
                                          Enter the URL to the .tgz update file:

                                          tgz?

                                          It is http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/updates/pfSense-1.2.3-1g-20090828-0527-nanobsd-upgrade.img.gz

                                          nope is img.gz…

                                          Anyway, whatever I do: ad0s2x get shot...
                                          assuming it dd's not really the right format/file?

                                          pfSense:~#  tail -f /cf/conf/upgrade_log.txt

                                          NanoBSD upgrade starting

                                          dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s2 bs=1m count=1
                                          1+0 records in
                                          1+0 records out
                                          1048576 bytes transferred in 0.226607 secs (4627287 bytes/sec)

                                          /usr/bin/gzip -dc /root/firmware.tgz | /bin/dd of=/dev/ad0s2 obs=64k
                                          949467+8 records in
                                          7417+1 records out
                                          486130176 bytes transferred in 116.117005 secs (4186555 bytes/sec)
                                          After upgrade fdisk/bsdlabel

                                          /sbin/fsck_ufs -y /dev/ad0s2a
                                          Can't stat /dev/ad0s2a: No such file or directory
                                          Can't stat /dev/ad0s2a: No such file or directory

                                          /sbin/tunefs -L pfsense1 /dev/ad0s2a
                                          tunefs: /dev/ad0s2a: could not find special device

                                          <quote>Embedded has historically been a second class citizen</quote>
                                          <ironic>Now it's third class...?</ironic>

                                          No, to be honest, there seems to be a lack of testing. Even the the graphical part "firmware upgrade in Progress" is off the Center. And stays also after failing. I can not  find out if I test alpha or beta?

                                          With over 1000 reads, this topic seems to be well watched...

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                                            althornin
                                            last edited by

                                            Just a note, I was able to successfully upgrade a pfsense 512MB cf to the latest snapshot, using manual firmware upgrade.  went flawlessly, which is good, because its a remote location (non critical, just for testing).

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