Cannot use xml file from 1.2.x to 2.1

lfph

Hello,
my "old" pfsense 1.2.x just died and i'm trying to upgrade to 2.1, i have a backup that cannot be used as it says "The configuration could not be restored" (nothing else).

i am not familiar with .xml so i am just attaching the 2 backups i have:
1- as .txt because .xml is not authorized
2- i have 2 backups (1 with packages and 1 without - i think)

if anyone can have a look at it it would be great.
Thanks,
S.
pfsense_xml.txt
pfsense_xml1.txt

phil.davis

After removing all the {rtf} stuff at beginning and end, and removing the "/" at the end of every line, the configs parse fine. Hopefully the attached files will load OK onto a 2.n.n system.
I don't know what you (or your system/s) did to turn these into "rtf".

config_lfph_big.txt
config_lfph_small.txt

lfph

Hello and thanks a lot, it seems the 2.x is willing to accept the xml file but i get this error with both files:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 2207

S.

phil.davis

I tried restoring the small one to a test system. After some time I get:

Warning: rename(/cf/conf/rrd.tgz,/cf/conf/backup): Is a directory in /etc/inc/upgrade_config.inc on line 1994

The test system was already running 2.1.1-prerelease and the restore seems to be trying to do conversion stuff to the RRD data already on the test system.
But it does suck in the config OK. When I reboot, of course, I get a bunch of interface mismatch messages… since my test system hardware is nowhere near the same as yours.
The line 2207 is when it is sucking the config into the parser - so somehow you are feeding it something that sends it into a loop reading in data and eventually explodes when it runs out of memory to store what it thinks is the config text.

ptt

Have you tried restoring your config.xl in a 1.2.x install, then install the "Pre-2.0 Upgrade Check package " and once you have a "clean" config. restore it to a 2.1 install….

lfph

Hi,
so here where I am:

I can restore the interfaces but then it tells me that i need to reboot the firewall - this is where i'm loosing connection to the web gui; tried to reboot directly on the machine but then i have to start all over again (i also tried to change to 192.168.1.1 in xml file as it on default on the LAN card-mine is 192.168.125.1 but it doesn't help)

I could try to install the config on 1.2.3 and then upgrade, i have a HP 64 proc, 1 gB ram - http://files.nyi.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/old/ i tried that one: pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-LiveCD-Installer.iso.gz but it doesn't install, just rebooting ad lib, do you know which one i should use?

Anyway, thanx a lot again - free beers anytime you're in Copehagen-Denmark

S.

stephenw10

You have the LAN interface set to use 192.168.125.1/24 but you have DHCP and outbound NAT rules referring to 10.10.10.X/24 for LAN. Might be causing some issues, I run into problems assigning DHCP ranges that no longer exist before.

Steve

lfph

Hello to all of you,
I finally made it by reloading a 1.2.3 version, for info:
1: i used a Dell optiplex but i needed to put 2 "old" network-cards, the 1.2.3 cannot recognize the on-board one.
2: i had no problem with the LAN interface IP and the DHCP rule having a different range of IP addresses , still I dont why it's that way; i didn't set up that config, just took over (i dont think thats the right way to do it but its working).

I would like to thank everyone here: both reading and answering or helping others with issues.

Anyone in Denmark, beers are waiting!
s.