Re: sysupgrade on pcEngines apu2 boards hangs

Do you have enough available space on partition?  You didn't mention how many OS upgrades you've done on these systems.

diana

On April 7, 2024 3:04:53 PM MDT, Glen Gunsalus <g-gunsalus@mindspring.com> wrote:

I have been running OpenBSD on three apu2 boards (as firewalls) for several years and doing remote (ssh to boards) with no problems.

Doing the 7.4 to 7.5 upgrades I had an initial success then two failures. Not confidence building since these firewalls are at remote sites.

Not sure where the problem lies, here is what I've experienced:

pcEngines apu2 boards, running sysupgrade - have been running OpenBSD
since about 6.2 and doing remote (ssh to board) for several releases
w/o any problems

Did successful sysupgrade on one board the evening before 7.5 release
notification using: url  https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ (other
mirrors not yet showing items in 7.5 directory)

Went fine, as per norm.

Next day did on a second board using my default url (as per all previous
remote upgrades)  https://mirrors.sonic.net/pub/OpenBSD/

after syspugrade pings ok but cannot ssh:
ssh: connect to host 10.42.xx.xx port 22: Connection refused

used minicom to hook up to serial port and was able to see (didn't
require login??):

# ls -al
total 166
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:34 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1770 Mar 20 21:53 .profile
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    194 Apr  7 18:34 auto_upgrade.conf
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     11 Mar 20 21:53 autoinstall -> install.sub
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2560 Apr  7 18:34 dev
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:34 etc
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     11 Mar 20 21:53 install -> install.sub
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2903 Mar 20 21:53 install.md
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  64483 Mar 20 21:53 install.sub
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:36 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 mnt2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   1024 Mar 20 21:53 sbin
drwxrwxrwt   4 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:36 tmp
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     11 Mar 20 21:53 upgrade -> install.sub
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 usr
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 var

reboot from serial console with minicom

Comes back up (can ssh now) but with only one cpu (normally running mp - cpu[0-3] )

reboot

Watching on serial port

reorder_kernel: failed -- see /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC/relink.log

as per log: run 'sha256 -h /var/db/kernel.SHA256 /bsd'

reboot, no error, but still in single cpu mode.

reboot bsd.mp

hang, ssh connection refused

Power cycle to get fresh reboot but still hangs

still on serial port: boot usb with miniroot75.img

reboot - needed to reset - 'stty com0 115200; set tty com0', otherwise hangs

Choose upgrade

Success!

This happened on a third apu2 board; thus, two unsucessful and one successful sysupgrades on apu2 boards

Any ideas/pointers?  I'd like this not to reoccur.