Sunday, April 07, 2024

Re: sysupgrade on pcEngines apu2 boards hangs

Successful upgrades since 6.2

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 14.4G 4.9G 8.8G 36% /
/dev/sd1a 3.6G 2.0K 3.4G 1% /scratch


On 4/7/24 14:28, deichert@placebonol.com wrote:
> 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/ <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/ <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.
>
>
>
>

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