Upgrade failed - no space on device - won't respond to any keystrokes,
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After remotely attempting to perform an upgrade from the old 2.4 to the latest stable version, the device (a 3100, one of three that I own) became unresponsive.
When I connected to it via serial port, after the initial bootup stuff I noted the message
/usr/local/libexec/pfSense-upgrade: cannot create /var/run/pfSense-upgrade.pid: No space left on device
I then got the usual Welcome and all the numeric options, e.g. 8 for Shell, 5 for Reboot
However, it does not respond to my keystrokes. Pressing a number has no effect. I was hoping I could get into the shell and figure out why there's no space left (logs maybe?) and retry the upgrade request. I really don't want to have to start from scratch and flash in a new OS --- been there, done that, it's a PITA
Help would be appreciated.
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It seems that the problem here is Mac related. I have solved the keyboard problem by running a terminal under a VM with Windows.
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It is usually is logs, especially if you have any packages installed. Check in /var/log first.
If you have a backup of the config the installing clean and restoring it it fairly painless. You already have the console connection which is usually the hardest part.
Open a support ticket to get the install image:
https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-requestSteve
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@stephenw10 I had already removed everything in /var/log and I didn't have any packages installed on this particular machine.
The good news is I was able to reinstall the OS with very little pain and since I had XML backups I was able to get up and running again on newer version
