Upgrade to 2.4.5 on Hyper-V Never Completes

[lispeedyg]

Hi,
I've been running pfSense on Hyper-V stable for a number of years. However, on updating to 2.4.5 from 2.4.4-p3 it freezes and never completes (see snapshot below). Any ideas on the cause/fixes?

[Gertjan]

Upgrading from 2.4.4-p3 to 2.4.5 involves not one package.
More like 200 or so.

Re install.

[lispeedyg]

I've tried upgrading a number of times. All with the same result. Do you mean start from base config? If so, I've never been able to re-apply the configuration file successfully. Any Ideas?

[lispeedyg]

BTW -- the upgrade (viewing from the console upgraded MANY packages and took more than 20 minutes. Only after packages are updated and rebooting it stops at the firewall config step.

[Gertjan]

@lispeedyg said in Upgrade to 2.4.5 on Hyper-V Never Completes:

I've never been able to re-apply the configuration file successfully

What do you mean ? in the past, importing the config.xml into the GUI doesn't work for you ?

Your system boots ?
If so, use the console access, stop the booting, goto single user mode, copy out the /conf/config.xml file.
The pfSense manual explains it all.

@lispeedyg said in Upgrade to 2.4.5 on Hyper-V Never Completes:

ng it stops at the firewall config step.

Just a wild guess (your posts do not give any info) : check your NIC's attributed to the pfSense VM.
If no NIC's I can undertstand that the firewall part freaks out.
Again, just a guess.

I wouldn't even bother long time. Create a new VM 'by the book'.

[stephenw10]

Mmm, we'd need to seem more of the boot output I think to know.

If you can install and boot 2.4.5 OK but then when you restore your config it fails that seems more like a config issue.
Does it fail in exactly the same way when you do that?

Steve