Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.

jimp

Reinstall from 2.4.4-p3 installation media. Choose "recover config.xml" at the first screen of the installer, then proceed to install again.

There are ways to get it back from the state you are stuck in but it's a lot less work to reinstall, if you can.

All of the other procedures are covered at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-troubleshooting.html

ady2

Absolutely same issue here, upgraded to 2.4.4p3 from UI on 05/23 and today, 05/25 my pfsense has same issues, no DHCP on any network card, pfsense is not responsive except the shell terminal option, same errors PHP startup. Unable to load dynamic library ...

Is this hardware failure or what?

Will try to reinstall, and apply the restore from backup.

albgen

@ady2 i dont think is a hardware fault. Seems like this upgarde is not handling some certain cases and we fall in this one.
What i dont like is that how this problem can appear after 2 days and not right after the upgrade.
Next time i will upgrade after 1 month of a "stable release"..

Gertjan

@albgen said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

f sombeody wants the VM image(hyper-V) for this issue i can provide it

As here https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143656/weird-2-4-4_3-issues/7

With the /usr/local/lib/php/20131226/ folder still in place (old PHP libs) pfSense is pretty brain-dead.

Didn't saw this myself, all upgrades to p3 went fine - including a pfSense running under Hyper-V @home

JeGr

To any who encounters that:

are you able to get to console shell (#8 in menu) as that won't/shouldn't trigger a PHP problem?
if so, are you able to go to /usr/local/lib/php and check (ls -la) what folder there is?
Assuming its some folder like 20170716 (or something 2017...) can you run
- cd /usr/local/lib/php
- ln -s 20170718 20131226
- ls -la (again) and verify there is now a 2013xxxx folder (like the errors claim not to be)
- Ctrl + d (so the console menu should reappear)

So afterwards

Is the console menu now running properly again?
can you now trigger #13 again (update from console)
does it update anything?

Greets

albgen

@JeGr The console reappeard and it started working. The first thing i did was a reboot and than it started the config again...
i guess this is because the network is not the same but i cannot create the same network in the lab.
pf2 reinstall.png

JeGr

Not bad :)
If the console is working with the Symlink workaround, could you run the "update" menu point or manually run pkg update and pkg upgrade afterwards if there are missing updates etc. to indicate a broken update at some point?

Thanks!

albgen

pkg not found... pkg not found.png

jimp

Use pkg-static instead of pkg.

albgen

@jimp
seems ok now. the question is why this happened and also in the future could we have the same issue?
does it worth it to report as an issue?

jimp

Without knowing more about why it happened, it's impossible to say.

If you still get that error when you use pkg then it looks like you now have a partial 2.5.0 system. Maybe you are set to track developer snapshots now?

Go into the update settings and make sure you are set to stable updates, and then run this:

pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade

albgen

@jimp
never tried a snapshot. Only current release

albgen

i re-run the following pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade
and i got
second run1.png second run2.png

seems there is a new version 2.4.4 p4 but from the UI i don't see this...

Gertjan

Hi,

I tried to find this "libssl.so.111" on my pfSense 2.4.4-p3 : I could not find it .....

The pfSense-repo-2.4.4._4.txz file ends with _4, true, looks suspicious.
( just a packages with the 2 repo source information files )

But, to be sure what you install, check these :
pfSense-2.4.4_3.txz
and
pfSense-base-2.4.4_3.txz

Thee 2 "files" contain the major part of pfSense "base".

Conclusion : you should be ok now : 2.4.4-p3.

jimp

@Gertjan said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

I tried to find this "libssl.so.111" on my pfSense 2.4.4-p3 : I could not find it ....

Because it's from OpenSSL 1.1.1 which is on pfSense 2.5.0, which you'll only get if your update URL is set to track snapshots :-)

Gertjan

@jimp said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

if your update URL is set to track snapshots

Ah, my bad. I understood that the OP wanted to install the latest stable = 2.4.4-p3, not de dev version (future 2.5.0).

jimp

That appears to be the original intent, but somewhere along the way they had to have set it to track snapshots.

JeGr

Which would explain the broken update (path) and problems with PHP and library versions

albgen

it could be because i remember sometimes, i change the update url to the latest development 2.5 just to check the version?
Never installed it though

Gertjan

@albgen said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

change the update url to the latest development 2.5

Switching it to 2.5, and back again to the latest stable version doesn't do nothing.
As you said, as long as you didin't actually "upgrade" using on "2.5.0".