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    Stuck on upgrade from 2.1.5 to 2.2.2

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      stegfeld
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      hi,

      I'm running pfsense 2.1.5 on freebsd 8.3-release-p16 on a vmware esxi 5.5 and want to upgrade it to 2.2.2..
      I followed the upgrade instructions found on https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Upgrade_Guide
      means that I removed all my installed packages, and click than the "Click Here to view update." button on the WebGUI and start the upgrade process..

      I've opened the vm console to see whats going on, when I start the upgrade process it shows me "Firmware upgrade in process" and the same is shown on the webGUI.. I can wait for 12 hours, and nothing happens..

      any idea what causes this issue?

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        doktornotor Banned
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        Probably nothing will happen at all due to a known bug. You can just reboot and retry the upgrade again,  roll back to recent VM snapshot and try again, or just do a fresh 2.2.2 install and restore the config.

        https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4653

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          stegfeld
          last edited by

          I've no succesfully updated to 2.2.2 on freeBSD 10.1

          I've restarted the pfsense, removed all installed packages, removed the captive portal instance, then I've started the upgrade process.. it stuck again, but I restartet after 20minutes with shutdown -r in linux shell, after this I've installed all my packages again, but now I'm not able to start the packages "c-icap", "havp", "mailscanner", "postfix forwarder".. this is what maillog says:

          May  8 14:29:55 pfsense MailScanner[54948]: Connected to Processing Attempts Database
          May  8 14:29:55 pfsense MailScanner[54948]: Found 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
          May  8 14:29:55 pfsense MailScanner[54948]: Using locktype = flock
          May  8 14:31:27 pfsense MailScanner[36560]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
          May  8 14:31:27 pfsense MailScanner[7631]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
          May  8 14:31:27 pfsense MailScanner[20280]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
          May  8 14:31:27 pfsense MailScanner[98700]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
          May  8 14:31:27 pfsense MailScanner[54948]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
          May  8 15:45:40 pfsense postfix/postfix-script[22754]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
          May  8 15:45:43 pfsense postfix/postfix-script[44921]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

          after I tried a few times to start the services..

          any further ideas what causes this problem?

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            doktornotor Banned
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            I already linked the bug. Do a clean install and move on. Really a no brainer with VMs.

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