Update from BETA to STABLE hangs

[clicq]

I have been on the 9.3 BETA train for a few weeks, and now I am trying to switch to 9.3 STABLE.

Specifically, I am trying to update from BETA-b63bac5 to the latest stable, which is base-os-9.3-CURRENT-f35d46c, FreeNASUI-9.3-CURRENT-f35d46c, and freeness-pkg-tools-9.3-RELEASE-44f2ca1.

The system downloads the packages, but seems to hang on installing the base-os. I've left it for about 15 minutes, and there is no CPU activity on the server. I am able to cancel it by hitting the "X" at the top of the upgrade window.

I'm not sure what else to check -- any ideas? Thanks!

 

[dlavigne]

Does a reboot fix it?

 

[clicq]

Nope, that was the first thing I tried :(.

 

[dlavigne]

Remind me, how far back is BETA-b63bac5 (e.g. last couple of days or a few weeks ago)? If it's in the last few days, it is worth creating a bug report. Otherwise, there were some updating bugs a week or so back so a fresh install should fix it.

 

[clicq]

It's less than a day -- I applied the last update in BETA that bumped it up to 9.3 RELEASE, and then I saw this latest one in the stable train. I'll post a bug report then.

 

[clicq]

I was perusing the list of issues and I believe my problem may be due to not having any space on my boot partition (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/6975). I tried searching through the docs, but it's not clear to me how I can free up space on the boot partition. Any pointers? Am I off track?

EDIT:
Not sure if this is correct but when I run zfs list -r -t all freenas-boot, this is my output:

NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
freenas-boot 3.69G 1.32M 31K none
freenas-boot/ROOT 3.67G 1.32M 31K none
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-1415825209-1 4.18M 1.32M 910M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-1416017921 4.43M 1.32M 910M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-UPDATE-201412012043 4.34M 1.32M 935M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201412090832 431M 1.32M 462M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235 3.24G 1.32M 931M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235@2014-11-15-03:07:57 278M - 932M -
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235@2014-11-16-12:53:48 251M - 910M -
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235@2014-12-01-18:08:56 256M - 910M -
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235@2014-12-09-01:58:56 934M - 935M -
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235@2014-12-09-07:33:35 4.73M - 935M -
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235@2014-12-09-08:05:30 567K - 932M -
freenas-boot/ROOT/default 3.80M 1.32M 932M legacy
freenas-boot/grub 8.03M 1.32M 7.79M legacy
freenas-boot/grub@Pre-Upgrade-FreeNAS-1415825209-1 42.5K - 7.77M -
freenas-boot/grub@Pre-Upgrade-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-1416017921 46.5K - 7.77M -
freenas-boot/grub@Pre-Upgrade-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-UPDATE-201412012043 50.5K - 7.78M -
freenas-boot/grub@Pre-Upgrade-FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-BETA-201412090235 55K - 7.78M -
freenas-boot/grub@Pre-Upgrade-FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201412090314 58.5K - 7.79M -
freenas-boot/grub@Pre-Upgrade-FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201412090832 1K - 7.79M -

What can/should I delete?

 

[clicq]

So in fact, I did run out of space on my boot device (it was a 4gb flash drive, not 8gb as I had originally thought).

To free up space, I went to the System -> Boot tab, and then removed old boot environments. After I freed up about 1gb, I was able to successfully install the update.

 

[cyberjock]

I'd recommend you buy an 8GB stick at your next opportunity to avoid this problem in the future. ;)