upgrade to 18.7 stuck

[pve]

Hi all,

Upgrading to 18.7 seems to have stopped.
Started the upgrade from the browser gui and it hasn't finished yet .. 2 hours later.

I can still login via ssh when I get the banner that it is on 18.7 now.
However it hasn't rebooted.

What makes it more difficult to troubleshoot is that I can't su to root anymore. It throws the following

$ su -
Password:
sh: /usr/local/sbin/opnsense-auth: not found
su: Sorry
$

What are my options here.. ? Anyone got a suggestion  other than to powercycle it and see if it hopefully comes up again ;-) ?

thx..

rgds,

Peter

[GDixon]

uh oh!

I am right here with you.
Been trying to get the 18.6 HBSD installed and working and when I did I got the stuck update/upgrade also.
I get a 403 forbidden on the gui and can not ssh into anything though.
Funny part is I can still access the internet from everything.

Did you end up powering down and rebooting and if so what happened?

greg

[phoenix]

How about saving your current configuration then doing a clean install and importing the configuration into that?

[GDixon]

I did just that to come against this update/upgrade dead end.

I'm going to leave it go and get some sleep here and reinstall and restore one more time but I think i will download the 18.6    11.2 HBSD again and make sure again it's a good download to burn to a stick.

[pve]

Well I left it in the state it is/was overnight... All services still work (dhcp/dns etc..) except for the openvpn server.
Although ifconfig shows the ovpns1 interface in running state ..

So I am not touching it for now as it is in kind of a stable state for the last 18 hours

Can take a backup without root access by the way ?  After that I will attempt to do a reinstall and restore from backup I guess...

I first need to create/configure a replacement for this one ...

Cheers,

Peter

[GDixon]

ok i got it.

The original download and stick were and are just fine.

Do a clean Install of 18.6 HBSD

DO the update/upgrade making sure to use production to 18.7.8

Now after the reboot you can switch to development and update/upgrade to 19.1.b_306

Now after the reboot you can use your backed up config to restore.

At least this worked for me.

[GDixon]

hmmmm I just checked updates again and have this.


Current version                                                       Next version
19.1.b_306                                                              Click to check for updates.
Package Name                                        Current Version                                New Version          Required Action
base                                                        19.1.b                                                18.7.6                  upgrade
kernel                                                19.1.b                                                18.7.6                  upgrade

Can't win for losing!  It looks like a downgrade lol  I'll take this to another thread

Good luck pve