Crash / Bootloop

[ttabbal]

I updated yesterday. The latest from the previous major version installed first, and the reboot was fine. Jumping to 24.7.3 causes what looks like a kernel panic on Linux. It happens shortly after the main kernel boot messages. I think the kernel is ok, I can boot to a command prompt when selecting single user at boot.

I thought perhaps it was just time to reinstall with the updated ZFS snapshot stuff. The ISO and Nano image both have the same crash.

I'm not as familiar with the low level troubleshooting on BSD as I am on Linux. If there are logs or other diagnostics I can provide to help, please let me know.

Hardware is a Supermicro 1U server.

X8-DTL board, E series quad core Xeon. Not sure which model, but I can get that. 24Gb RAM. 2 Intel SSDs. Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC. Nothing real fancy.

Just to make sure the hardware is working, I booted an Ubuntu Server install ISO I had available. Seems to be running fine. So that's something anyway.

[franco]

Would there be a chance to get a look at the panic? Otherwise answering your questions is difficult.


Cheers,
Franco

[ttabbal]

I was thinking that might be an issue. I couldn't get anything from it. I might be able to set up a logger of some kind. It would spew text to the screen, then reboot itself over and over. Made more difficult by my needing to use IPMI remote control.

Interesting "other" issue, the IPMI virtual media works fine for most things, but OpnSense and PfSense both dump a bunch of read errors. I had to burn a physical DVD-R to get it to boot. OpnSense still crashes in a similar way. PfSense was able to install and run from the disc. This feels more like a BSD thing, so it might just get fixed later. For the nano OpnSense image, I used a USB stick which had the same crash.

I had hope that people would have seen something similar. As it does it on bare metal when booting from a burned DVD, I don't see how it could be a configuration issue.

I needed to get something going as downloading images over mobile was getting old. Pf runs, but ipv6 is flaky and just stops working here and there. Wierd. Diabled for now, I'd rather have reliable v4 then broken v6.

[franco]

Sorry, there is just not enough data points here to even guess what the issue may be.


Cheers,
Franco