OS Update Fails on Reboot Advice

[jlpellet]

I have one i3 system I'm using to test 9.3 betas & have experienced a problem twice on OS updates I'd like advice on. The problem has been that the system does not come back up on reboot, even after waiting 1 hour. If I locally power cycle the box, it will come up the 2nd time. I'm not seeing anything in the log after the successful restarts. The system is headless so I can't say what is on screen during the unsuccessful boot attempts.

Any advice on what I can do to get more info to post?

Thanks,
John

 

[joeschmuck]

You need to add some additional information such as which version are you trying to update from and to. There was a break in the upgrade software. Look for the thread under the 9.3 Testing area and see if it applies. If you are having a new problem, report it in the bug reports.

 

[jlpellet]

Thanks for the feedback. Not certain I think it is a bug that can be addressed with what I can report. In the most recent example, I used the GUI update process to upgrade from FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-1416634263-1 to FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-1416852093. The update process seemed to proceed normally and the system rebooted. However, on the reboot, the system failed in the boot process (I let it try for an hour & ping, ssh, & the GUI were not available). At this point, I manually power-cycled the system. On restart, everything is normal. This is what happened the 1 prior time I've seen this on the 9.3 betas. Since on power cycle, everything seems normal & I cannot repeat the problem, combined with the fact that there is no monitor on the system, unless there is a boot log that survives the freeze, I'm not certain I can provide enough info to follow up, espcially if no other testers have seen sonething similar. I would not want to waste develpopers' time for a nonreproduceable problem cured by a reboot. If it happens again, I think I'll replace the flash drive and use a different USB port - either could have an intermittent hardware glitch even though a scrub reveals no issues.

 

[Nigel]

I too am seeing a similar thing. Every time that I've updated, the system doesn't come back up, and sits on the grub loader, waiting for a key press.
Today's update also failed to boot, with an error message something like 'no kernel loaded'. The only way to fix this seemed to be a power cycle.