Second APU unit bricked after 2.4.4 upgrade - unable to load dynamic library

[matsan]

After my previous upgrade of a APU.1d unit that went wrong (because I installed a new package requiring PHP 7.2) I now did another upgrade of a similar APU unit. To prepare I uninstalled all packages and then tried upgrading 2.4.3_p1 to 2.4.4.
The result is not a bricked unit as previous week, but it boots up but doesn't start. Following logged over serial console.

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'session.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/20131226/session.so (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20131226/session.so"), /usr/local/lib/php/20131226/session.so.so (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20131226/session.so.so")) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'bcmath.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/20131226/bcmath.so (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20131226/bcmath.so"), /usr/local/lib/php/20131226/bcmath.so.so (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20131226/bcmath.so.so")) in Unknown on line 0

My question is now - is APU units no longer supported?
Also, from where can I download the image for APU units? Is this no longer possible?

[stephenw10]

The APU is still supported, I have one running here. You can re-install using this image if required:
https://nyifiles.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.4.4-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz

Steve

[klausade]

@matsan said in Second APU unit bricked after 2.4.4 upgrade - unable to load dynamic library:

I also see this.

I just tried to upgrade a Netgate SG-1000 from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4, and I also have a non functioning unit, with the same, pluss more errors as yours, ~70 lines of "Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library"

[matsan]

@klausade
I had to completely reinstall and restore the backup to get this solved. Seems like the pfsense update to 2.4.4 do things that break the installation :-(

[klausade]

I'm prepared to to that myself also, however, I need to get the config.xml out of the device before I do that, and for the SG-1000 I can only find images without any "Rescue shell" and "Recover config.xml options", which you have in the normal installer.

[stephenw10]

Looks like you were able to get the config from single user mode:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/136216/rescue-fail-safe-access-to-the-emmc-on-the-sg-1000/

Steve

[klausade]

@stephenw10 Yes. Jim came to the rescue. I should have tried the boot -s sooner, but I got "blind" looking for an image for the sg-1000 that looked more like the regular pfsense installer, Anyway, all ended well.

[stephenw10]

Cool. Thanks for following up.

Steve