Attempting to update to 23.01 DEVEL corrupts my pfSense installation

chickendog

@mtarbox Yeah I didn't try update, seemed too scary to go from 23.01 Beta to 23.05 Alpha.
Was scared a dev committed the wrong thing accidentally

tedquade

@chickendog 23.01 RC is out now.

Ted Quade

michaellacroix

@tedquade

Is 20230109-0600 the RC release? My pfsense update page is still showing 23.01.b.20230106.0600 as the latest dev

stephenw10

The branch only just happened so at this point 23.05a is almost identical to 23.01. BUT you don't want to be on that branch because downgrading is far more difficult so I would wait until you see 23.01r (RC) offered. Which should be shortly.

(If you are running ZFS of course you can just roll back the BE)

michaellacroix

@stephenw10 Awesome, thanks Stephen

mtarbox

@stephenw10 well of course I jumped on that sword.
Everything seemed fine when I left the house this morning, and I haven't had any angry texts yet today.

tedquade

@mtarbox 23.01-RC (amd64)
built on Sun Jan 08 15:18:55 UTC 2023
FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT

Upgrade was uneventful.

Ted Quade

chickendog

@tedquade Nice! just came up for me too. Done without any issue as well.

mtarbox

@tedquade rolled it back, THANK GOODNESS FOR ZFS, rebooted to 23.01.b, and voila, there was the RC, all nice and shiny. Gave it the old cli razzle-dazzle, reboot, and after acknowledging things, all was good in my world. Also deleted the 23.05 environment.

swampkracker

Successful update to 23.01.r.20230108.1514

michaellacroix

@swampkracker

The dev branch on my pfsense still only shows 23.01.b.20230106.0600 available. No RC

stephenw10

If you're running 22.05 that's what it will show. Once you upgrade to that you will see RC available.

michaellacroix

@stephenw10

OK, got it.. Thanks

serzyfritz

Updated this morning and everything looks to have gone well after a few reboots and reloads to make pfblocker happy.

However, I noticed that I no longer have any selections for Branch

I was also expecting to now see an RC option but do not see that.

stephenw10

Most likely your NDI changed from that originally registered. Did you change the hardware?

serzyfritz

@stephenw10 said in Attempting to update to 23.01 DEVEL corrupts my pfSense installation:

Most likely your NDI changed from that originally registered. Did you change the hardware?

Nope same exact hardware no changes. Was setup about a week and a half ago updated to plus and was waiting for the RC so I did the update this morning with no changes to hardware.

I can provide my ID if needed.

stephenw10

Yes, PM me your NDI so I can check it.

pfsjap

On Netgate 1100 upgrade from 22.05 to 23.01 didn't go well. After changing the update branch to Latest Development Snapshots, 23.01.b.20230106.0600 was offered and accepted. Gui showed the following errors early on, but other than that, upgrade seemed to go through:

Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching packagesite.pkg: .......... done
Processing entries: 
pkg-static: Newer FreeBSD version for package wol:
To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes
- package: 1400073
- running kernel: 1203506

pkg-static: repository pfSense contains packages for wrong OS version: FreeBSD:14:aarch64
Processing entries... done
Unable to update repository pfSense
Error updating repositories!

When 1100 restarted, Crash report greeted me:

Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

arm64
14.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 plus-devel-main-n255998-693fad75fe3: Fri Jan  6 06:26:59 UTC 2023     root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-Plus-snapshots-master-main/obj/aarch64/VbZl2vrO/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-Plus-snapshots-master-main/sources/Free

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[10-Jan-2023 12:00:31 UTC] PHP Warning:  Failed loading Zend extension 'opcache.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/20210902/opcache.so (/usr/local/lib/php/20210902/opcache.so: Undefined symbol "zend_inheritance_cache_get"), /usr/local/lib/php/20210902/opcache.so.so (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20210902/opcache.so.so")) in Unknown on line 0
[10-Jan-2023 12:00:31 UTC] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: session: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20210902
PHP    compiled with module API=20190902
These options need to match
 in Unknown on line 0
[10-Jan-2023 12:00:31 UTC] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: bcmath: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20210902
PHP    compiled with module API=20190902
These options need to match
 in Unknown on line 0
.
.
.
10-Jan-2023 12:03:06 UTC] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'xmlreader.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/20210902/xmlreader.so (/usr/local/lib/php/20210902/xmlreader.so: Undefined symbol "dom_node_class_entry"), /usr/local/lib/php/20210902/xmlreader.so.so (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20210902/xmlreader.so.so")) in Unknown on line 0
[10-Jan-2023 14:03:06 Europe/Helsinki] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Return value of g_get() must be an instance of mixed, string returned in /etc/inc/globals.inc:411
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/globals.inc(129): g_get('product_version')
#1 /etc/inc/config.inc(29): require_once('/etc/inc/global...')
#2 /usr/local/pkg/wireguard/includes/wg_service.inc(24): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#3 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/globals.inc on line 411
[10-Jan-2023 14:03:17 Europe/Helsinki] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc:1475
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc(7241): pfb_build_if_list(true, false)
#1 /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc(10790): sync_package_pfblockerng()
#2 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(781) : eval()'d code(1): pfblockerng_php_pre_deinstall_command()
#3 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(781): eval()
#4 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(1093): eval_once('pfblockerng_php...')
#5 /etc/rc.packages(80): delete_package_xml('pfBlockerNG-dev...', 'deinstall')
#6 {main}
  thrown in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc on line 1475

No FreeBSD crash data found.

Checking update version failed, so before recovering back to 22.05 there was no harm in trying these commands mentioned earlier in this thread:

[22.05-RELEASE][root@plusdev-3.stevew.lan]/usr/local/libexec: rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf 
[22.05-RELEASE][root@plusdev-3.stevew.lan]/usr/local/libexec: ln /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-devel.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf

After that update indicated that 23.01.r.20230108.1514 was available and that went through to 23.01-RC without errors.

stephenw10

Hmm, yeah those errors you see are the result of an incomplete upgrade for some reason.

I would guess it was because pfBlocker failed to complete it's uninstall script.

The initial error is expected the pfSense-upgrade script allows it to continue past the ABI mismatch.

pfsjap

Upgraded from 22.05 to 23.01-BETA last month without any trouble pfBlogger being the same version as today (3.1.0_9).