Re: Update to 14.3 does not boot anymore

Am 10.06.2025 um 16:08 schrieb Paul Macdonald:
> On 10/06/2025 09:47, Arnold Greyling wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 Jun 2025, at 10:14, Matthias Fechner <mfechner@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> I tried to upgrade today one of my servers from 14.2 to 14.3 using 
>>> freebsd-update.
>>> I just fetch the update, installed new kernel and rebooted:
>>> freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.3-RELEASE
>>> freebsd-update install
>>> reboot
>>>
>>> Now I see on the screen:
>>> (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 60 e0 48 04 04 40 00 
>>> 00 00 00 00 00
>>> (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Auto-Sense Retrieval Failed
>>> (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Error 5, Unretryable error
>>>
>>> this is repeated and server refused to boot.
>>> Maybe the disc is broken, but it worked fine till before the reboot 
>>> into the new kernel, so this can also be related to the upgrade.
>>
>> If you are using ZFS with the standard layout from the installer 
>> freebsd-update should have created a boot environment for 14.2 when 
>> you started the upgrade.
>> When you boot, select the option “Select boot environment …” from the 
>> boot menu, and then select the 14.2 environment
>> You will at least see if it is hardware or if it is caused by the 
>> upgrade.
>> If you don’t even get the boot menu it is probably hardware.
>>
>> Regards
>> Arnold Greyling
>
>
> FWIW  an upgrade i just performed worked fine
>
at first thank you all for your feedback.
These problems always happen if you do not have physical access too the 
hardware.

We tried to boot an old ZFS snapshot (before the kernel update) which 
showed the same error message.
FreeBSD tries to boot, it failed and automatically rebooted after some time.

So we tried next to remove ada1 which is a SATA harddisc and it booted 
fine with FreeBSD 14.3 kernel (the pool is now degraded as is it a mirror).
So I completed the upgrade to 14.3 successfully.

Just to make another test, after the upgrade was done, we inserted the 
disc with the problem again and the system even hang up.
I was able to see in messages this (I redacted the serial of the drive):
Jun 11 12:59:05 server kernel: ada4 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
Jun 11 12:59:05 server kernel: ada4: <ST16000NM000J-2TW103 SB40> ACS-4 
ATA SATA 3.x device
Jun 11 12:59:05 server kernel: ada4: Serial Number ZxxxxxxxQ
Jun 11 12:59:05 server kernel: ada4: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, 
UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
Jun 11 12:59:05 server kernel: ada4: Command Queueing enabled
Jun 11 12:59:05 server kernel: ada4: 15259648MB (31251759104 512 byte 
sectors)
Jun 11 12:59:08 server kernel: (ada4:ahcich1:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. 
ACB: 60 e0 20 fc bf 40 46 07 00 00 00 00
Jun 11 12:59:08 server kernel: (ada4:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: 
Auto-Sense Retrieval Failed
Jun 11 12:59:08 server kernel: (ada4:ahcich1:0:0:0): Error 5, 
Unretryable error
Jun 11 12:59:08 server kernel: (ada4:ahcich1:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. 
ACB: 60 e0 20 fe bf 40 46 07 00 00 00 00
Jun 11 12:59:08 server kernel: (ada4:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: 
Auto-Sense Retrieval Failed
Jun 11 12:59:08 server kernel: (ada4:ahcich1:0:0:0): Error 5, 
Unretryable error

and then my ssh terminal disconnected.

So I will replace that harddisc. It is a new one and maybe half a year 
old but it seems somehow broken.
I will test a new one if I see a similar problem, maybe it is also a 
cable issue, but that I need to check in some month if I have physical 
access to the server again.

Best regards
Matthias