Splunk Start fails after upgrading from 9.3.1 to 9.4.0

[gazoscreek]

Yesterday I upgraded Splunk on one of my Deployment Servers from 9.3.1 with the 9.4.0 rpm on a Amazon Linux host and ran into the following error after starting splunk with:

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start --accept-license --no-prompt --answer-yes

(typical batch of startup messages here ... until)

sh: line 1: 16280 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) splunk migrate renew-certs 2>&1
ERROR while running renew-certs migration.

Repeated attempts at starting failed to render anything different. Ended up having to revert to the prior version. This is, in fact, the first failed upgrade I've had since I started using this product over 10 years ago. I have backed out of the upgrade, but considering the vagueness of this error message, I'm asking the community if anyone has seen this before. 

[sle_axn]

Did you resolve this issue @gazoscreek ? I have same problem when upgrade from 9.2 to 9.4 currently.

[Meaf]

Hi,

Not sure if you've tried this but looks like a similar issue in a lower version upgrade.

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/After-upgrading-from-Splunk-6-2-3-to-6-3-0-why-am-I-get...

Cheers

Meaf

[isoutamo]

Hi

If you couldn't found any reasonable reason from logs, you should create support case to splunk.

r. Ismo

[gazoscreek]

I do have a ticket open, but am also leveraging the community to determine if this has been seen in the past.