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23.1 Legacy Series / I'm getting a kernel panic after updating/reinstalling v23.1
« on: February 28, 2023, 09:24:32 am »
I've been running OPNSense for years and I really love it. However, after a recent update my HD activity light was staying on and the CPU meter on the OPNSense dashboard was reading 100%. After looking for anything obvious and turning off all the services I could, the CPU was still pegged and the HD light was still on constantly. So I rebooted the machine; it never came back online.
After I attached a monitor to the machine I saw that it had a kernel panic[0]. While unusual I didn't think to much of it. However, rebooting the machine didn't resolve the issue. So I removed all the cards, memory, etc. to see if I could get a clean boot. Nothing helped and I continued to get a kernel panic[0].
I thought it might be a corrupted hard drive or something so I disconnected the drive and booted off of a USB thumb drive with a fresh copy of v23.1 installed on it. The system booted just fine and ran the live version. So I turned the machine off, reconnected the drive, rebooted and installed v23.1 on the HD. The install worked perfectly and the machine rebooted. Once again, I got the kernel panic[0].
My next thought was that maybe the HD was "bad". I replaced the HD and again installed a fresh copy of v23.1. Again, the kernel panic[0] showed up. Arrggghhh!
I'm running Memtest86 v6.10 right now and everything is looking good, so I don't think it's memory related. I've replaced the HD so that's (probably) not the problem. It seems to work fine booting from the USB flash drive (its just slooooow) so the CPU seems to be OK.
Any thoughts on what I should do now? I'm not very good at reading kernel panic output so I thought I was ask here. The weird thing is that it seems to run fine from a live USB stick but not when I install it on a HD. Maybe the HD controller is bad? How would I test this?
BTW: after the kernel panic the machine is locked up completely. Nothing works. The keyboard doesn't do anything, the capslock key doesn't even light up. Even the floppy drive light is stuck on.
After I attached a monitor to the machine I saw that it had a kernel panic[0]. While unusual I didn't think to much of it. However, rebooting the machine didn't resolve the issue. So I removed all the cards, memory, etc. to see if I could get a clean boot. Nothing helped and I continued to get a kernel panic[0].
I thought it might be a corrupted hard drive or something so I disconnected the drive and booted off of a USB thumb drive with a fresh copy of v23.1 installed on it. The system booted just fine and ran the live version. So I turned the machine off, reconnected the drive, rebooted and installed v23.1 on the HD. The install worked perfectly and the machine rebooted. Once again, I got the kernel panic[0].
My next thought was that maybe the HD was "bad". I replaced the HD and again installed a fresh copy of v23.1. Again, the kernel panic[0] showed up. Arrggghhh!
I'm running Memtest86 v6.10 right now and everything is looking good, so I don't think it's memory related. I've replaced the HD so that's (probably) not the problem. It seems to work fine booting from the USB flash drive (its just slooooow) so the CPU seems to be OK.
Any thoughts on what I should do now? I'm not very good at reading kernel panic output so I thought I was ask here. The weird thing is that it seems to run fine from a live USB stick but not when I install it on a HD. Maybe the HD controller is bad? How would I test this?
BTW: after the kernel panic the machine is locked up completely. Nothing works. The keyboard doesn't do anything, the capslock key doesn't even light up. Even the floppy drive light is stuck on.