Update nukes system

[toucansam]

Hello to all.

First time poster, have been running Opnsense for a week now having come from Untangle, and pfsense before that, for many years.

My new installation went perfectly, loaded the image on a USB stick and am running the system on an old laptop with an SSD.

After initial configuration, I checked for updates, and saw 29 available.  After about 15 minutes of waiting for the GUI to refresh, I refreshed manually, to find a 404.

Could not ping the host.  Opened the laptop and the system read "no boot device."  Rebooted and the system crashed with an error (which of course I failed to write down but will if it happens again) and I was in single user mode, zero reference to Opnsense, and sh was running but not a whole more more (no network services in fact).

I am going to try it again after having done a fresh re-install, and will report back with issues. 

Thanks.

[bartjsmit]

This sounds like a storage problem. How old is the SSD and how much free space is left?

It is generally safer to perform updates from the console and it gives you more feedback.

Bart...

[chemlud]

I mostly do updates from the GUI but ALLWAYS store the config before doing so, just in case...

[toucansam]

I've got a handful that are several years old, maybe even four or five.  This is a test system for now while I feel out Opnsense and see if it does what Untangle will not, but I see that new 120gb SSDs are $20 on the jungle store so I might just get a new one and use it.

[franco]

There's really not a lot to go on here. Yes, there are fringe cases with FreeBSD package manager deinstalling the GUI package with the way we handle the updates, but it's impossible to investigate without the steps to reproduce or other points of reference like the versions and crypto flavour used.

Most of the (known) update issues are fixed on master now and some changes already moved to the 21.1.1 release with more to follow. That does not mean there are a lot, but I expect any system to have rough edge cases here and there.


Cheers,
Franco