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    1.2.3 to 2.0 on VMware bombs

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • J
      jgreco
      last edited by

      An upgrade from 1.2.3 to 2.0 (i386) using the console upgrade tool bombed on one of our boxes, upgrading to BETA5.  It happened pretty much right after loading the vmware tools, so my guess is that maybe there's evil there and that old packages should be disabled as part of an upgrade.

      Configuring CRON…done.
      Starting OpenNTP time client...done.
      Starting DHCP service...done.
      Starting DNS forwarder...done.
      Configuring firewall......done.
      Generating RRD graphs...done.
      Starting CRON... done.
      Syncing packages: Open-VM-Tools
      Syncing packages: done.
      Executing rc.d items...
      Starting /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh...done.
      Starting /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-kmod.sh...done.
      Bootup complete
      panic: malloc_init: bad malloc type magic
      cpuid = 0
      Uptime: 29s
      Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable.
      Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort

      Annoyingly, even when chmod'd 000, those scripts are still executed; you have to actually move them out of the directory to get them to not run.  (Running scripts without an -x bit is almost certainly a separate bug)  After that it seems to work.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        The most likely cause is the older vmware tools loading, leading to a panic.

        I had thought we had a ticket open for that situation, but I don't see it. I just opened one:
        http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1156

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