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    2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      louis-m
      last edited by

      can i run fsck on the card?

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        wallabybob
        last edited by

        I suggest you execute the following shell command on the pfSense console:```
        dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null

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          louis-m
          last edited by

          ok. did that and it comes back with:

          8211168+0 records in
          8211168+0 records out
          4204118016 bytes transferred in 2223.790851 secs (1890519 bytes/sec)

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            kejianshi
            last edited by

            The really great thing about this little flash drives is they are so cheap that when one crashes you can toss it and replace it with no great financial burden.

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              wallabybob
              last edited by

              @louis-m:

              ok. did that and it comes back with:

              If there were no errors reported on the console or in the system log the flash card is probably ok and I would guess you were probably hit by a file system error which is now lost because the slice was overwritten.

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                louis-m
                last edited by

                Does that mean I can duplicate the good slice I'm currently on to the one that didn't boot before and then try another upgrade?

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                  doktornotor Banned
                  last edited by

                  Try and see for yourself? Otherwise, don't get me wrong, but a new CF card costs $16.

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                    kejianshi
                    last edited by

                    $16 is really abit pricey…

                    On E-Bay you can get them for anywhere between $(We will actually pay you to take our stuff) - $6

                    Apparently, somewhere in China there is a factory where the workers actually must pay for the honour of making CF cards to give away....

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                      doktornotor Banned
                      last edited by

                      @kejianshi:

                      $16 is really abit pricey…

                      I'd rather get the "abit pricey" original CF card which is tested to work with the board, notably with UDMA-100, rather that getting random fake crap from eBay. Not really worth saving the price of 1-2 Big Macs.

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                        kejianshi
                        last edited by

                        Ummmm.  Burgers.  OK.  $16

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                          louis-m
                          last edited by

                          an industrial grade 4gb cf card ain't that cheap.

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                            kejianshi
                            last edited by

                            "Industrial Grade" isn't a spec, although sellers like you to think it is.

                            I would look at actual specs like MTTF, read rate, write rate, number of rewrite cycles it will endure, operating temp etc and go by things like that.
                            You might come out cheaper and just as reliable.

                            I've never ever, not even once had a flash media actually fail me EXCEPT when I didn't realize the problem with running journaling file systems on a NAND media and so crashed 2 with frequent writes.  I also quickly learned that once you have screwed a flash drive, toss it.  You can't trust it any more.

                            I'd buy a new one.

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                              louis-m
                              last edited by

                              And here is the error I get when duplicating the slice:

                              Warning: file_put_contents(/tmp/pfsense1/etc/fstab): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 2132

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                                doktornotor Banned
                                last edited by

                                Well… then you clearly cannot duplicate the slice. Time to move on, don't you think?

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  There is likely more to the errors farther inside of the upgrade log.

                                  try to upgrade again, then go to Diag > NanoBSD and view the full upgrade log, and post it.

                                  You'll also see errors like that when your CF is perfectly good but it was imaged with an "-upgrade" .img initially rather than an actual full NanoBSD .img file.

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                                    edmund
                                    last edited by

                                    Have you tried removing all the packages from the installation?  I assume that the V2 release is much larger than the older V1 release because I've found that AVAHI will not build under 2.0 and the traffic shaper crashes under 2.0.  If 2.1 doesn't fix these issues then it's probably time to toss the nano version.

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                                      louis-m
                                      last edited by

                                      it's a bit long but here is the upgrade log:

                                      NanoBSD Firmware upgrade in progress…

                                      Installing /root/latest.tgz.
                                      SLICE         2
                                      OLDSLICE      1
                                      TOFLASH       ad0s2
                                      COMPLETE_PATH ad0s2a
                                      GLABEL_SLICE  pfsense1
                                      Wed Aug  7 07:07:18 BST 2013

                                      total 8
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   8 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:57 .
                                      drwxr-xr-x  24 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:58 ..
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  56 Aug  4 21:57 ad0
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  57 Aug  4 21:57 ad0s1
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  60 Aug  4 21:57 ad0s1a
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  58 Aug  6 17:31 ad0s2
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  78 Aug  6 17:31 ad0s2a
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  59 Aug  4 21:57 ad0s3
                                      crw-------   1 root  operator    0,  28 Aug  4 21:57 ata
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  11 Aug  7 07:07 bpf
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           3B Aug  4 21:57 bpf0 -> bpf
                                      crw-------   1 root  tty         0,   4 Aug  7 07:07 console
                                      crw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0,  44 Aug  4 21:57 crypto
                                      crw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0,  10 Aug  4 21:57 ctty
                                      crw-rw----   1 uucp  dialer      0,  35 Aug  4 21:57 cuau0
                                      crw-rw----   1 uucp  dialer      0,  36 Aug  4 21:57 cuau0.init
                                      crw-rw----   1 uucp  dialer      0,  37 Aug  4 21:57 cuau0.lock
                                      crw-rw----   1 uucp  dialer      0,  41 Aug  4 21:57 cuau1
                                      crw-rw----   1 uucp  dialer      0,  42 Aug  4 21:57 cuau1.init
                                      crw-rw----   1 uucp  dialer      0,  43 Aug  4 21:57 cuau1.lock
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,   5 Aug  4 21:57 devctl
                                      cr--------   1 root  wheel       0,  54 Aug  4 21:57 devstat
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:57 fd
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  13 Aug  4 21:57 fido
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,   3 Aug  4 21:57 geom.ctl
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  23 Aug  4 21:57 io
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,   8 Aug  4 21:57 klog
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  kmem        0,  15 Aug  4 21:57 kmem
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:57 led
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  62 Aug  4 21:58 md0
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  operator    0,  64 Aug  4 21:58 md1
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  47 Aug  4 21:57 mdctl
                                      crw-r-----   1 root  kmem        0,  14 Aug  4 21:57 mem
                                      crw-------   1 root  kmem        0,  16 Aug  4 21:57 nfslock
                                      crw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0,  25 Aug  7 07:07 null
                                      crw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       0,  27 Aug  4 21:57 pci
                                      crw-rw----   1 root  proxy       0,  45 Aug  4 21:57 pf
                                      crw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0,   9 Aug  4 21:57 ptmx
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 22:31 pts
                                      crw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0,   6 Aug  4 21:57 random
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  24 Aug  4 21:57 speaker
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           4B Aug  4 21:57 stderr -> fd/2
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           4B Aug  4 21:57 stdin -> fd/0
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           4B Aug  4 21:57 stdout -> fd/1
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  32 Aug  4 21:57 ttyu0
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  33 Aug  4 21:57 ttyu0.init
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  34 Aug  4 21:57 ttyu0.lock
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  38 Aug  4 21:57 ttyu1
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  39 Aug  4 21:57 ttyu1.init
                                      crw-------   1 root  wheel       0,  40 Aug  4 21:57 ttyu1.lock
                                      crw-------   1 uucp  dialer      0,  72 Aug  4 21:58 tun1
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:57 ufs
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:57 ufsid
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           9B Aug  4 21:57 ugen0.1 -> usb/0.1.0
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           9B Aug  4 21:57 ugen1.1 -> usb/1.1.0
                                      lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           6B Aug  4 21:57 urandom -> random
                                      dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         512B Aug  4 21:57 usb
                                      crw-r--r--   1 root  operator    0,  46 Aug  4 21:57 usbctl
                                      crw-------   1 root  operator    0,  55 Aug  4 21:57 xpt0
                                      crw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0,  26 Aug  4 21:57 zero

                                      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    78M Aug  7 07:05 /root/latest.tgz

                                      MD5 (/root/latest.tgz) = 9697bd6338477034e2fbb8ad53e5ee33

                                      /dev/ufs/pfsense1 on / (ufs, local, noatime, synchronous)
                                      devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
                                      /dev/ufs/cf on /cf (ufs, local, noatime, synchronous)
                                      /dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, local)
                                      /dev/md1 on /var (ufs, local)
                                      devfs on /var/dhcpd/dev (devfs, local)

                                      last pid: 23896;  load averages:  1.43,  0.61,  0.29  up 2+09:09:25    07:07:23
                                      50 processes:  1 running, 49 sleeping

                                      Mem: 77M Active, 76M Inact, 61M Wired, 3072K Cache, 33M Buf, 13M Free
                                      Swap:

                                      PID USERNAME      THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
                                      68586 root            1  76   20  3644K  1312K wait     1:51  0.00% sh
                                      40230 root            1  64   20  3264K  1220K select   1:18  0.00% apinger
                                      99879 nobody          1  44    0  5512K  2412K select   0:46  0.00% dnsmasq
                                      64552 zabbix          1  64   20  4532K  1676K nanslp   0:43  0.00% zabbix_agentd
                                      2041 root            1  76    0 35808K 24784K accept   0:26  0.00% php
                                      7528 dhcpd           1  44    0 11456K  7672K select   0:23  0.00% dhcpd
                                      27023 root            1  64   20  6280K  6300K select   0:21  0.00% ntpd
                                       295 root            1  76   20  3352K  1124K kqread   0:21  0.00% check_reload_status
                                      94442 root            1  44    0  9028K  6204K kqread   0:16  0.00% lighttpd
                                      92451 root            1  64   20  7156K  5876K select   0:07  0.00% bsnmpd
                                      22827 root            1  44    0  5868K  1920K bpf      0:06  0.00% tcpdump
                                      2353 root            1  64    0 35808K 24664K accept   0:05  0.00% php
                                      9531 root            1  44    0  7880K  2944K select   0:05  0.00% mpd5
                                       771 root            1  64   20  5808K  2280K kqread   0:04  0.00% master
                                      49622 root            1  76   20  3356K  1316K nanslp   0:03  0.00% cron
                                      66845 root            1  64   20  5432K  3112K select   0:03  0.00% openvpn
                                      5502 root            1  64   20  3412K  1404K select   0:03  0.00% syslogd
                                      8075 root            1  44    0  3264K  1764K kqread   0:03  0.00% dhcpleases

                                      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 0.204044 secs (5138967 bytes/sec)

                                      /usr/bin/gzip -dc /root/latest.tgz | /bin/dd of=/dev/ad0s2 obs=64k
                                      3844449+0 records in
                                      30034+1 records out
                                      1968357888 bytes transferred in 355.340421 secs (5539358 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
                                      6322 files, 334070 used, 3445958 free (670 frags, 430661 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)

                                      ***** FILE SYSTEM IS CLEAN *****

                                      /sbin/tunefs -L pfsense1 /dev/ad0s2a
                                      Checking for post_upgrade_command...

                                      File list:
                                      /tmp/pfsense1
                                      /tmp/pfsense1/.snap

                                      YADA….. YADA..... no errors in the files

                                      Misc log:
                                      fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
                                      bsdlabel: /dev/ad0s3: no valid label found
                                      bsdlabel: /dev/ad0s3: no valid label found
                                      mount: /dev/ufs/pfsense1 : Device busy
                                      cp: /tmp/pfsense1/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
                                      sed: /tmp/pfsense1/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
                                      umount: /tmp/pfsense1: not a file system root directory

                                      fdisk/bsdlabel log:

                                      Before upgrade fdisk/bsdlabel
                                      ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
                                      parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
                                      cylinders=8146 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=8146 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 3861585 (1885 Meg), flag 80 (active)
                                      beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
                                      end: cyl 758/ head 15/ sector 63
                                      The data for partition 2 is:
                                      sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                                         start 3861711, size 3861585 (1885 Meg), flag 0
                                      beg: cyl 759/ head 1/ sector 1;
                                      end: cyl 493/ head 15/ sector 63
                                      The data for partition 3 is:
                                      sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
                                         start 7723296, size 102816 (50 Meg), flag 0
                                      beg: cyl 494/ head 0/ sector 1;
                                      end: cyl 595/ head 15/ sector 63
                                      The data for partition 4 is:
                                      <unused># /dev/ad0s1:
                                      type: unknown
                                      disk: amnesiac
                                      label:
                                      flags:
                                      bytes/sector: 512
                                      sectors/track: 63
                                      tracks/cylinder: 16
                                      sectors/cylinder: 1008
                                      cylinders: 3813
                                      sectors/unit: 3844449
                                      rpm: 3600
                                      interleave: 1
                                      trackskew: 0
                                      cylinderskew: 0
                                      headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
                                      track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
                                      drivedata: 0

                                      8 partitions:

                                      size     offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]

                                      a:    3844433         16    unused        0     0  
                                       c:    3844449          0    unused        0     0     # "raw" part, don't edit

                                      /dev/ad0s2:

                                      type: unknown
                                      disk: amnesiac
                                      label:
                                      flags:
                                      bytes/sector: 512
                                      sectors/track: 63
                                      tracks/cylinder: 16
                                      sectors/cylinder: 1008
                                      cylinders: 3813
                                      sectors/unit: 3844449
                                      rpm: 3600
                                      interleave: 1
                                      trackskew: 0
                                      cylinderskew: 0
                                      headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
                                      track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
                                      drivedata: 0

                                      8 partitions:

                                      size     offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]

                                      a:    3844433         16    unused        0     0  
                                       c:    3844449          0    unused        0     0     # "raw" part, don't edit
                                      –-------------------------------------------------------------

                                      Any idea's on that error? Strange that the disk is saying it's ok and then coming up with invalid disk partition....</unused>

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                                        wallabybob
                                        last edited by

                                        @louis-m:

                                        Any idea's on that error? Strange that the disk is saying it's ok and then coming up with invalid disk partition….

                                        First some names: The Master Boot Record (MBR) allows for 4 partitions. FreeBSD calls these slices. Each slice that specifies it is a FreeBSD slice then has a BSD label and FreeBSD partitions. A device name such as /dev/ad0s2a indicates FreeBSD partition "a" within FreeBSD slice 2 on ATA disk ad0.

                                        Your log indicates slice 1 and 2 are OK, but slice doesn't appear to have a valid BSD label.

                                        If I recall correctly nanoBSD should have 3 slices: one of which is used for configuration information so that information can be easily shared by the other two slices.

                                        @louis-m:

                                        fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
                                        bsdlabel: /dev/ad0s3: no valid label found
                                        bsdlabel: /dev/ad0s3: no valid label found
                                        mount: /dev/ufs/pfsense1 : Device busy
                                        cp: /tmp/pfsense1/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
                                        sed: /tmp/pfsense1/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
                                        umount: /tmp/pfsense1: not a file system root directory

                                        Note the problem is reported on slice 3 which is not reported in the disklabel log.

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                                          louis-m
                                          last edited by

                                          Do you know how to fix this? Is it an edit in the shell?

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                                            doktornotor Banned
                                            last edited by

                                            @louis-m:

                                            Do you know how to fix this? Is it an edit in the shell?

                                            Uh. Rewrite the image to the card, restore configuration backup? (Note: I definitely am not convinced the card is OK, frankly I'd just dump it.)

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