From nobody Wed Nov 30 10:26:08 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NMb2T0HdQz4jXp5 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:25:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (mailserver.netfence.it [78.134.96.152]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4NMb2R6gttz4MNn for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of ml@netfence.it designates 78.134.96.152 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ml@netfence.it; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=netfence.it Received: from [192.168.113.67] (martin.centrocontabilebiesse.it [151.69.5.121]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.17.1/8.17.1) with ESMTPSA id 2AUAPe0q094058 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:25:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host martin.centrocontabilebiesse.it [151.69.5.121] claimed to be [192.168.113.67] Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:26:08 +0100 List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 Content-Language: en-US From: Andrea Venturoli Subject: 12 -> 13 upgrade and ZFS checkpoint To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.79 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.99)[-0.994]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[netfence.it,none]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:78.134.96.152]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ASN(0.00)[asn:35612, ipnet:78.134.0.0/17, country:IT]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4NMb2R6gttz4MNn X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N Hello. TL;DR Don't try to upgrade to 13 if you have a checkpoint on your boot pool. I spent three hour yesterday trying to fix a production server which would not restart after an upgrade. Even rolling back to previous version did not help. After trying almost everything, I was able to see, among a load of fast scrolling cryptical messages, "can not read checkpoint data". Turns out 13.1's loader.efi is not able to find a ZFS pool if it was checkpointed on 12.3. Perhaps this is widely known, but I had never seen any mention of this. Possibly this does not happen on non-UEFI systems. I hope this message can save a lot of trouble to others. bye av.