PfSense+ 22.05 -> 23.01 Boot Failure after Upgrade

roach32

Upgraded 22.05 pfsense+ to 23.01 today and stuck at boot with the following error:

Loading kernel..
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x1a8f80 text=0x1052b58 text=0x1a260c0 data-0x140 data=0x2618c4+0×59d73c 0x8+0x1ccba8+0×8+0×1d7685/
loading configured kernel modules
/boot/kernel/zfs.ko size 0x5b2878 at 0x3ba5000
/etc/hostid size=0×25
/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko size Oxaab0 at 0x4158000
/boot/entropy size=0×1000
staging Oxaa200000 (not copying) tramp Oxb6ac0000 PT4 Oxbab7000
Start @ Oxffffffff803a9000
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, size 0x0000000 , 0×500000
dimensions 1280 × 1024
stride 1280
masks 0x00ff0000. 0x0000ff00. 0x000000ff. 0xff000000

Anyone have any ideas how to get beyond this? I have changed boot environment and gone back to 22.05 for now but I would like to make sure this is up to date pretty soon for security reasons..

jimp

What type of hardware or hypervisor is this installation running on?

roach32

@jimp

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz (3292.45-MHz K8-class CPU)
Real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
Avail memory = 7926775808 (7559 MB)

Intel(R) I217-LM LPT
Intel(R) Gigabit CT 82574L
Intel(R) PRO/1000 PT 82572EI (Copper)
HP NC552SFP/Emulex OCE11102 Dual-Port 10Gb Network Adapter

SteveITS

@roach32 FYI on security, there are patches in the System Patches package for 22.05.

roach32

@steveits

thanks for this. unfortunately, all pkgs moved to php8.1 so cannot install system patches package on plus 22.05. Getting this msg:

WARNING: Current pkg repository has a new PHP major
version. pfSense should be upgraded before
installing any new package.

SteveITS

@roach32 oh that’s great they added a warning! Interesting I don’t see that yet on my 22.05 but might be triggered by trying an install or update.

In System/Update change your branch to Previous Stable Version which is now 22.05, then you can install/update packages. Change to Current to upgrade to 23.01.

jimp

I'm not aware of anything that would prevent that specific system from booting, I mostly asked because we had some similar reports from Hyper-V users that it stopped there, but we haven't been able to consistently reproduce that in lab conditions.

To start with I'd check System > Advanced, Admin Access tab and make sure you do not have the serial console enabled.

jimp

Also if you get those pkg errors, you might want to force a reinstall of pkg after selecting the previous stable/22.05 branch.

: pkg-static bootstrap -f
: pkg-static update -f

roach32

@steveits you rock! that worked great

roach32

@jimp

many thanks Jim. serial console isn't enabled. at any rate, I ordered a brand new server to replace this unit today since I have been wanting to upgrade to a proper powerful server to go the TNSR route and retire this one workstation-class box that isn't upgrading to 23.01. the 6 others will remain on pfsense +.

Snk

@jimp

I'm also having this problem with Hyper-V, the system won't finish booting.
I left it for more than 2 hours, before returning with the snapshot.
It simply hangs on the message: masks 0x00ff0000. 0x0000ff00. 0x000000ff. 0xff000000
And it doesn't go away for hours.

stephenw10

See: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/177220/latest-pfsense-23-01-beta-freezes-on-hyper-v

Snk

@stephenw10

My installation of pfsense has 15GB of disk, which leads me to believe that there is no space.
I just tried to update again and it failed again.
I'm completely tied hand and foot.

stephenw10

Like it filled at update or was already full?

if you roll back to an earlier snapshot how much is used?

Snk

@stephenw10

This is my gpart status

stephenw10

That doesn't show how much of the drive is in use. I assume you see a lot less used space in the hypervisor?

Snk

@stephenw10

Do you think if I increase the size from 20GB to 80GB it will solve this installation error?

stephenw10

Probably, if it;s simply filling the drive at upgrade.

Snk

@stephenw10

Would you have any tutorial on how to expand the space within pfsense?

jimp

In some cases, touch /root/force_growfs and then rebooting is sufficient. But that depends on which part of the disk is running out of space. That's quick and easy to try.

A clean install of a recent base is best if you can.