Warning! Do not update with todays 1/10 snapshot!

louis2

I always boot using / from EFI

Louis

kiokoman

nice, there is a new build now.. 20201001.0650, now i need to test it again

louis2

I would not do that, since the change that it is fixed is ... very small

kiokoman

yeah, leave it to me, I can test it in a vm

ok with the new build after the reboot done by the upgrade process you don't lose access to the WebGUI but if you reboot again it does not boot anymore

w0w

2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Fri Oct 02 06:54:02 EDT 2020
FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE

Looks OK in VM (VirtualBOX) UEFI enabled.

w0w

Same for the real hardware.

louis2

@w0w Seeing your positive findings, I did retest.

Sorry to say, but NOT OK here!
System not booting, after update to actual snapshot!

Louis

kiokoman

@w0w
did you reboot twice?

louis2

Given wow his positive message, I did start an update from the gui.

I noticed that the FW did not return / did not become active, so I looked ad my kvm-switch. Trying to boot form network since it could not find any valid local startup partion.

So I did force a restart via "Cntr-Alt-Del" and again noticed no valid boot. Did that another time same result.

So .... not ok yet. Notice that redmine has started an "urgent" issue related to this problem (10943), which is not reported as fixed.

Louis

msm

When I upgraded this morning, system was caught in reboot loop trying to load:

FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE 2c7ab6a3c3f(devel-12) pfSense amd64

When I switched to kernel.old it came up with:

2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Sat Oct 03 06:53:59 EDT 2020
FreeBSD 12.2-PRERELEASE

Crashes are here: https://gist.github.com/emes/cba7dfb53e7127f1b122c6045e341983

AKEGEC

Thanks for the info. I almost upgrade it.

kiokoman

@msm i think you have a different problem for kernel.old
e1000_reset_hw_82571
there is a driver problem with your e1000
but maybe the old kernel is incompatible with other upgrades done by pfsense

msm

Yes, was just filing under warnings for others.

You meant to say "new kernel", no?

kiokoman

with new kernel you have boot loop as we have right?
you said that switching to kernel.old lead to a crash dump

w0w

@kiokoman said in Warning! Do not update with todays 1/10 snapshot!:

@w0w
did you reboot twice?

Three times. If it does matter I use ZFS.
On the real hardware I have mirrored ZFS volume. Sometimes after upgrade it comes with old version back, so I need to update this twice sometimes. On the latest snapshots I did it every time today, but I didn't attach any importance to it. May be it's failed really, but booted because of ZFS, dunno. This does not explain why VM version on ZFS but without mirror works fine.

kiokoman

could be a combination of efi and ufs

w0w

Installed snapshot from Sep 16 19:03 in the Oracle VirtualBox VM using BIOS emulation and selecting AUTO UEFI UFS, after installation completed, I've switched to UEFI and then booted the VM and started upgrade from console, option 13, it loaded latest files from 4 oct and installed them without any error. Rebooted 5 times — no problem, am I lucky one or we just missing something?
Here is the screenshot of my VM settings:

Install process:
https://streamable.com/v81y0j
Boot, upgrade and several reboots:
https://streamable.com/50idjx

louis2

I just did a lot of testing using a today's snapshot

First test was an upgrade from the GUI. Not successful, but it did reboot

Second test was a new install from an usb-stick without any config. That did run, but I could not use it (no-config).

Third test was a new install from usb, with my config on a second usb-stick, and that did not work

And I did notice two other problems:

the config file did have wrong entry's according to the parser. I noticed two "dhcpddata" and "dhcpdv6data" both occurring twice! And I think I agree with the parser and deleted the "redundant (different!) entry's.
then there was another issue related to lagg's. As soon as the startup sequence reaches "Configurating LAGG interfaces " it crashed and started again

So it seems that there is more than one issue

Whatever have I stopped testing for now, being back op the older version.

Louis

w0w

Hmmm... it is possible that you have broken config. Netgate team did a lot of changes in the middle of September, adding new features for XML parser and backup. A lot of changes in the code. I have problems with CARP now and there is still something broken. What version do you have now, 27/9?

louis2

A few remarks:

Be aware I do not now what is causing the problems I have.

Given my findings reported a few hours ago, I did decide to have a look what is the next action after Configurating LAGGS
So I did boot and noticed that is Configurating VLANs

Very recent I noticed I had a crashdump when running the 27/9 version, which might be related to laggs as well.
<118>Configuring VLAN interfaces...
<6>vlan0: changing name to 'lagg0.10'
panic: sleeping in an epoch section
cpuid = 2
time = 1601543446
KDB: enter: panic

However, despite that dump the 27/9 version seems to work OK

After the config changes I did do earlier today, related to the xml-parser issues, I did decide to test what happens when I made changes to the lagg.

So, I did remove one of the interfaces from the lagg and assign all vlans related to the lagg to that "now free interface".
=> no issues
=> reboot no issues
=> upgrade to todays snapshot => no issues

Than I did move one of the vlan's back to the lagg
=> crash
=> did recover with the vlan assigned to its previous IO

So may be .... :

there was a boot issue
and a config and/or parser issue
and a lagg issue

So far, my actual findings, not 100% clear yet!

Louis