Cant update to Nov30 snapshot, nanobsd install

[jjstecchino]

I did a fresh install yesterday with the Nov29 nanobsd 2gb snapshot. As I try to update to Nov30 snapshot (today latest) I get an error "something wrong happened while trying to upfate stab entries" and update fails.
fstab has rw-r–r-- permission.

cat fstab
/dev/ufs/pfsense0 / ufs ro,sync,noatime 1 1
/dev/ufs/cf /cf ufs ro,sync,noatime 1 1

Any suggestion?

[phil.davis]

I updated also to:
2.2-BETA (i386)
built on Sun Nov 30 14:57:52 CST 2014
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE
nanobsd (2g)

My fstab is the same as yours.
I have not noticed any error.
Where did you see that error message?
and I hope it did not really say:

upfate stab

;)

[jjstecchino]

The error comes up in the yellow notification area on the right upper corner of the gui.
no it doesn't say upfate, of course!

[jjstecchino]

Also I tried to clone my existing nanobsd slice to the second slot and it fails with the folowing error:

Warning: copy(/tmp/pfsense0/etc/fstab): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 2242 Warning: file_put_contents(/tmp/pfsense0/etc/fstab): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 2249

looking at /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc around that line:

function nanobsd_update_fstab($gslice, $complete_path, $oldufs, $newufs) {
	$tmppath = "/tmp/{$gslice}";
	$fstabpath = "/tmp/{$gslice}/etc/fstab";

	mkdir($tmppath);
	exec("/sbin/fsck_ufs -y /dev/{$complete_path}");
	exec("/sbin/mount /dev/ufs/{$gslice} {$tmppath}");
	copy("/etc/fstab", $fstabpath);

	if (!file_exists($fstabpath)) {
		$fstab = <<<eof<br>/dev/ufs/{$gslice} / ufs ro,noatime 1 1
/dev/ufs/cf /cf ufs ro,noatime 1 1
EOF;
		if (file_put_contents($fstabpath, $fstab))
			$status = true;
		else
			$status = false;
	} else {
		$status = exec("sed -i \"\" \"s/pfsense{$oldufs}/pfsense{$newufs}/g\" {$fstabpath}");
	}
	exec("/sbin/umount {$tmppath}");
	rmdir($tmppath);

	return $status;
}</eof<br> 

I think it fails because the line

exec("/sbin/mount /dev/ufs/{$gslice} {$tmppath}");

fails to mount.

In my install $gslice = pfsense0, @tmppath = /tmp/pfsense0

if I try to manually run the line from the console :

mkdir /tmp/pfsense0
mount /dev/ufs/pfsense0 /tmp/pfsense0

it fails with "device busy" but indeed I have not done any initialization or umounts that may have happened before this code is invoked.

After this mount fails the relative path to /tmp/pfsense0/etc/ftabs doesnot exist so the function fails.

I think this is related to the same error mentioned on my initial post when I try to upgrade to a new snapshot.

Of note:

• This is a fresh install of the Nov 30 snapshot.
• Compact flash was written using DD on a mac
• One anomaly after installation was that there was no initial  config.xml in /conf so there was an error displayed on the serial console to that effect.
  dropping to a shell and copying config.xml from /cf/conf.default to /conf solved the problem and allowed for a normal start minus the initial wizard that I was expecting to see running on first logon to the GUI

Hope this help to identify the problem

[cmb]

That sounds like you wrote out the update image to the card, not the image for a new install.

[jjstecchino]

Yikes…. I may very well had! How stupid of me!
Easy to fix though!
Will fix and report back.

Thanks

[binaryjay]

Had the same problem and YES, I stupidly flashed the update image instead of the initial install.

[jjstecchino]

My mistake. now i feel soooo stupid! thanks cmb for the prompt catch. I am glad to see I am not the only one though  :)