Attempt to upgrade 14.1 -> 14.2 - boot loops forever

[copenhagendreamer]

Lenovo ThinkPad T470s
with FreeBSD 14.1

I follow the instructions as per https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/installation/

So, basically:

root@freeBsd:~ # freebsd-update fetch
root@freeBsd:~ # freebsd-update install
root@freeBsd:~ # freebsd-update -r 14.2-RELEASE upgrade

Then reboot.

The boot fails right away, as seen in screenshot attached.

I think these lines from dmesg were written at the time of that boot:

│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd shutdown[66125]: reboot by ejner:                                                                                                                                                                                   │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd pulseaudio[1996]: [] x11wrap.c: X11 I/O error handler called                                                                                                                                                        │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd pulseaudio[1996]: [] x11wrap.c: X11 I/O error exit handler called, preparing to tear down X11 modules                                                                                                               │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd console-kit-daemon[1896]: WARNING: Error waiting for native console 9 activation: Inappropriate ioctl for device                                                                                                    │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd devd[1442]: notify_clients: send() failed; dropping unresponsive client                                                                                                                                             │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd syslogd: last message repeated 4 times                                                                                                                                                                              │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd kernel: .                                                                                                                                                                                                           │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd pulseaudio[1996]: [] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/run/user/1001/pulse): No such file or directory                                                                                                                                                                │
│Jan 04 22:34:48 freeBsd syslogd: exiting on signal 15                                                                                                                                                                                       │
│Jan 04 23:01:59 freeBsd syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel

When I do this: (from an install disk, having mounted the harddisk)

mv /boot/kernel /boot/kernel.BAD
mv /boot/kernel.old /boot/kernel

then the system can boot normally as before the attempted upgrade.

I don't see other posts with a similar error, so thought I'd better report it.

 

[Emrion]

Comment out the loading of tthe drm module (i915kms, I think) and the starting of Xorg. Then, retry the new kernel.
If the system doesn't panic anymore, search on the forum for this kind of problem with drm module.

 

[copenhagendreamer]

i195kms is in the /etc/rc.conf file, so I could comment that out.

kld_list="i915kms"

But I am wary of disabling X11, as I have not installed Wayland on this laptop (yet).

I am in no hurry to upgrade to 14.2 though. This is just a laptop that I use for my hobby projects.

Is this a known issue, and if so, is there a bug report that I can follow?

I would not mind waiting with the upgrade until a fix was available.

 

[SirDice]

root@freeBsd:~ # freebsd-update -r 14.2-RELEASE upgrade

Then reboot.

Nothing is changed or upgraded at this point. The freebsd-update -r <release version> upgrade stage only prepares everything, the actual upgrade happens with the freebsd-update install stages.

But I am wary of disabling X11, as I have not installed Wayland on this laptop (yet).

Irrelevant. Just disable the DRM driver while you are upgrading. Then, when the upgrade is finished, build graphics/drm-kmod from ports. You have to do this because the package for the DRM driver is still being built for 14.1.

 

[copenhagendreamer]

Sorry, in the original post I had simply missed writing in the step:

freebsd-update install

although in fact I did that before the reboot (as per the instructions, after freebsd-update -r 14.2-RELEASE upgrade)...

I am new to FreeBSD, so I hope you will forgive me SirDice if this is obvious, but IIUC I could now simply wait with upgrading until the graphics/drm-kmod package got built for the 14.2 kernel?

 

[copenhagendreamer]

Just to answer my own question - Yes, that is what the release Errata for 14.2 mentions:

drm-kmod packages compiled on FreeBSD 14.1 result in the text console being inoperative when the kernel module is loaded. Recompiling the package from the ports tree will restore the lost functionality. This issue will also resolve itself after the FreeBSD 14.1 EoL, when packages for 14-STABLE will start being built on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE.

 

[fredat]

Worked fine for me, only the P. version numbers are different, why? What might still be missing?

:~ # freebsd-update fetch
:~ # freebsd-update install
:~ # freebsd-update -r 14.2-RELEASE upgrade

:~ # freebsd-version -kru
14.2-RELEASE-p1
14.2-RELEASE-p1
14.2-RELEASE-p3

 

[SirDice]

What might still be missing?

Nothing's missing, p2 and p3 involved userland issues only.