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    Update failed with HAVP and too small /tmp RAM disk

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • peteP
      pete
      last edited by

      Update stopped this morning.  PFSense is working and console is showing it stopped at loading NTP client.

      This is the first time I have had an issue with an update.

      How can I fix this?

      SSHing to the box and running top see two processes running IE: check_reload_status

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      • Pete

      Auto mater
      23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
      built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
      FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
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      • peteP
        pete
        last edited by

        Downgraded back to pfSense-Full-Update-2.2.3-RELEASE-amd64.tgz manually.

        Looked for a while that the downgrading worked and now seeing filesystem full messages.

        /tmp write fail messages showing up….did actually see this messages with first update.

        So it looks like the update stalled when reinstalling packages.

        Shut off RAM usage and downgrade worked after a couple of reboots.

        Going to try to update again....same issue being stuck at loading NTP...

        Going to downgrade again to pfSense-Full-Update-2.2.3-RELEASE-amd64.tgz and leaving it alone for the time bean.

        • Pete

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        23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
        built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
        FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
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          doktornotor Banned
          last edited by

          What packages have you installed? Also post the output of

          
          df -h
          
          
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          • peteP
            pete
            last edited by

            Thank you  doktornotor.

            I downgraded back to pfSense-Full-Update-2.2.3-RELEASE-amd64.tgz and was fine until I tried the upgrade again.

            Now I am stuck again relating to my backup configurations?

            I did a backup of my configuration before I updated.

            The backup xml file saids its version 11.9 which was the first one with the RAM enabled.

            I kept doing backups and later xml versions state 11.7.

            I am still stuck even though it appears to be booting to version 2.2.3.

            Still stopping here while starting 2.2.3 at loading the NTP client.

            I was able to earlier downgrade and boot to version 2.2.3 with no issues.

            • Pete

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            23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
            built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
            FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
            PFSense + Qotom - Master
            PFSense + Jetway - Backup
            PFSense + Jetway - Backup
            PFSense + Generic - Backup

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              doktornotor Banned
              last edited by

              Uhm… if you are running out of space in /tmp because you have moved it to ramdisk, then either increase the size considerably, or simply do NOT move things to ramdisk. This really has nothing to do with 2.2.4 nor any other pfSense version.

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              • peteP
                pete
                last edited by

                Understood doktornotor.

                Yup originally went to 100Mb on /var and /tmp.  Its been fine except when I went to update it ran out of space in /tmp.

                That said downgrading back to 2.2.3 and it is updating the packages installed with no issues right now.

                Console booted up fine just now after the upgrading.

                Packages that were installed have been the same now for a while.

                Snort3, Squid, HAVP AV and a fail over gateway.

                Only change over the last few months has been to use RAM.

                I will leave the use of RAM off reboot a couple of times, back up configuration and try the update again….later though as I do not currently want to deal with this...

                Thinking it has been only the issue of using RAM and setting it to 100Mb.

                CPU, Memory and HD space are all fine.  Concerned here about the 100% usage which appears to be not an issue though eh?

                $ df -h
                Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
                /dev/ad6s1a     64G    4.9G     54G     8%    /
                devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
                /dev/md0       3.4M    168K    3.0M     5%    /var/run
                devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
                /dev/md10      958M     12K    881M     0%    /var/tmp/havpRAM
                procfs         4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /proc
                

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                • Pete

                Auto mater
                23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
                FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
                PFSense + Qotom - Master
                PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                PFSense + Generic - Backup

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                  doktornotor Banned
                  last edited by

                  @pete:

                  Concerned here about the 100% usage which appears to be not an issue though eh?

                  $ df -h
                  Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
                  /dev/ad6s1a     64G    4.9G     54G     8%    /
                  devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
                  /dev/md0       3.4M    168K    3.0M     5%    /var/run
                  devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
                  /dev/md10      958M     12K    881M     0%    /var/tmp/havpRAM
                  procfs         4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /proc
                  

                  devfs is NOT the issue ;)

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                  • peteP
                    pete
                    last edited by

                    Rebooted 2.2.3 twice and all is well except for the tickle to update.

                    Other than shutting off RAM use and backing up my configuration before the update are there any other recommendations suggested?

                    I understand this is a larger package.

                    I have not had any issues updating PFSense over the last year or so.

                    Should I disable or remove any of the packages installed?

                    It's not a big deal to reconfigure them.

                    • Pete

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                    23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                    built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
                    FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
                    PFSense + Qotom - Master
                    PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                    PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                    PFSense + Generic - Backup

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                      doktornotor Banned
                      last edited by

                      Pretty much convinced the issue is due to HAVP. (And, really consider switching to C-ICAP; the HAVP upstream has been dead for years.)

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                      • peteP
                        pete
                        last edited by

                        Thank you doktornotor.

                        Removed HAVP.

                        Rebooted and will try the update again.

                        • Pete

                        Auto mater
                        23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                        built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
                        FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
                        PFSense + Qotom - Master
                        PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                        PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                        PFSense + Generic - Backup

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                        • peteP
                          pete
                          last edited by

                          Thank you doktornotor for your help this morning and changing the title of the OP.

                          I couldn't wait so updated again.  Update worked fine and all is well again.

                          2.2.4-RELEASE (amd64)
                          built on Sat Jul 25 19:57:37 CDT 2015
                          FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15

                          • Pete

                          Auto mater
                          23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                          built on Mon Dec 11 12:24:00 CST 2023
                          FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
                          PFSense + Qotom - Master
                          PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                          PFSense + Jetway - Backup
                          PFSense + Generic - Backup

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                          • C
                            cmb
                            last edited by

                            Glad to hear it, thanks for the follow up. I updated the thread title so the root cause was clear for others looking for potential problem areas.

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                              doktornotor Banned
                              last edited by

                              @pete:

                              I couldn't wait so updated again.  Update worked fine and all is well again.

                              2.2.4-RELEASE (amd64)
                              built on Sat Jul 25 19:57:37 CDT 2015
                              FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15

                              Good to hear that… ;)

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