1.2.3 to 2.0 upgrade loses vlans/interface configuration

jimp

i can't see anything wrong with my interfaces. it simply forgets them on the reboot from 1.23 to 2.0.
here's my interfaces config attached with wan ip *** out.

uploaded as txt as forum wouldn't allow xml. please rename to xml

If yours only happens during a 1.2.3 to 2.0 upgrade, that is not the same as the problem being discussed in this thread. This is for existing 2.0 installs that 'forget' their interfaces after a given time. Yours may be a config upgrade issue, which is just as important (if not more) to resolve, but belongs in another thread.
[EDIT: Thread split for different issue. Former topic was [url=http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,28543.0.html]here]

louis-m

sorry jimp, i thought it was on about the same thing.

jimp

It's OK, it sounded similar at first, and it's still something we need to track down and solve.

jimp

It might be the same problem from this thread: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,28202.0.html

I have that guy's config but haven't had a chance to look it over yet.

louis-m

lol…. jimp. that's my post. i thought you had forgot about it, but apparently not. sorry for the double post's. won't happen again.

jimp

yeah… not sure where my brain was. Probably lost between 50 tabs. %)

jimp

I merged the threads together so it wouldn't be a duplicate. :-)

jimp

Looking back and this and trying it out, my ALIX upgrades fine with VLANs. I suspect you were hitting this issue due to having the snort package installed:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,28543.msg150170/topicseen.html#msg150170

And that should be fixed now on newer versions of snort.

louis-m

i was thinking the same as snort cocked up on resetting to the original slice but…..
i've tried again tonight and no success.
i've cleaned out my packages and package config and at one stage thought it was down to an old vnstat package but......

on a reboot
"invalid argument supplied for each() in /etc/inc/util.inc on line 708" and there ain't no line 708

jimp

At this point I would just do a fresh image of the card with 2.0 and restore your configuration. Something has to have gotten corrupted somewhere along the line.

To be safe, I'd remove the package data from the backup file.

louis-m

aha…...
are you saying i can do a fresh install and then use my 1.23 config to bring the v2 to how it was under v1.23? i didn't realise that you could do that.

if so, can't i just temporarily configure a lan at the moment after the upgrade and then import the 1.23 config?

Efonnes

If that was a recent snapshot, that error would suggest that you have no interfaces section in your config.xml at all when it is happening or that there was an error parsing config.xml.

jimp

yeah, backup the config, write out a card with 2.0, drop that in and connect to LAN, then restore config, and when it reboots it will be ready with all your other configuration. Still not sure I'd trust packages in that scenario just yet but it might be safe.

louis-m

just checked and there are interfaces there. i'll keep ploding on just to see incase it helps anybody later on but any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Efonnes

Maybe something invalid got into your config.xml somehow so that it wasn't able to parse it? Something could somehow be going wrong with the config upgrade process, making a configuration that causes it to error out when parsing. If this is happening, I think it would cause the equivalent of having a blank config.xml.

louis-m

ummm….
i'll probably have to go to a fresh v2 as jimp says but that's giving up to me so i wanna keep trying. i notice when it boots up it looks for packages, says it reinstalling packages and then says done. and there's no packages there in the gui or when you run pkg_info.
what i did try was clearing all my backups & cache out and then upgrade to v2.
still the same so i then name the interfaces vr0, vr1 & vr2 (thinking i'd get it going and then do the config import) but then i got:
cannot use a scalar value as an array in /etc/inc/config.console
cannot unset offset in a non-array variable in /etc/inc/config.console

Efonnes

Have you kept a backup of the working configuration from before the upgrade so that you can reproduce this at any time?

louis-m

yes, i backup using an "all" & "all without packages" config. still the same result.

louis-m

sorry to bring this up again but i'm looking for advice as we draw ever closer to v2.
i tried this again the other night (with latest snapshot) and still had the same issue. so i suppose the only way i'm gonna get v2 going is with a fresh install.
problem is, pfsense is configured with 5 vlans, ipsec tunnels etc and i don't want to lose the config or start from scratch.

can i do a fresh install and then restore from config?
i'm thinking of doing multiple backups eg one for packages, one for firewall, one for ipsec etc and restoring them (if i can) one by one in case there is anything in there.
would this be the way to go?

i don't want to buy another industrial grade cf card so i may use a normal cf just to see if it goes prior to switching over to the working card.

cmb

Please email me your config that won't upgrade. cmb at pfsense dot org