I don't know if my fingers are emitting some radiation that makes it
fail, but the last three upgrades I've attempted have all ended in
disaster, requiring a re-flash and restore on my WRAP boxes.
My prior upgrade brought my personal firewall up to the July 29
snapshot. This was an upgrade from an early-june snapshot. This one
I upgraded by uploading the firmware upgrade file, then running the
rc.firmware upgrade script. It ran out of disk space and destroyed
some key files so it was basically bricked ;-( I flashed the
firmware to the July 29 snapshot and went on my business...
Then last night I decided to upgrade this box to RC2. The web-based
upgrade seemed to do nothing -- the browser kept timing out or
getting network disconnects. It was strange. So I uploaded the
firmware to the /tmp MFS partition. About 80% into the upload, the
console showed a kmem_malloc panic and rebooted. So then I uploaded
the firmware to the /root directory. I ran the command line upgrade
from the main menu, but after a while started getting disk full
errors again. Since I was still up and running, I tried to move the
firmware file to /tmp and re-run it, but after the move when I did an
"ls -l" the system again rebooted on kmem_malloc panic.
Unfortunately it scrolled off the history buffer of my console window
so I don't have the exact message. Once again, I had to flash the
firmware and restore.
Last week I upgraded another WRAP which was a late June snapshot to
bring it to the RC2. The web-based upgrade seemed to do nothing. I
got the "this is not signed" warning, clicked upgrade, and then a few
minutes later it rebooted with no changes to the system (still
reported old version.) So then I tried the manual route of uploading
the file and running the rc.firmware script. Again, it gave disk
full errors, and destroyed the system (the elf loader was corrupted,
so there was no recovering...)
Anyhow, I know others have successfully upgraded embedded versions,
but I have not been able to do so for at least the last 4 upgrades
I've attempted.
Has anyone else experienced similar troubles upgrading embedded pfsense?
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