I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update

grandrivers

I am also seeing this and automatic backups failing

jimp

The updates should be working again, though you may need to restart the DNS Resolver or Updater to ensure it's getting the correct DNS response.

Any issue with AutoConfigBackup would be unrelated.

NRgia

@jimp said in I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update:

The updates should be working again, though you may need to restart the DNS Resolver or Updater to ensure it's getting the correct DNS response.

Any issue with AutoConfigBackup would be unrelated.

Thank you @jimp I restarted the DNS from the GUI, and I also used the following, in CLI:

unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf reload

The same issue.
I use the DNS Forwarder mode, maybe the DNS servers are still holding a bad entry in their cache?

grandrivers

Well I also lost available packages all at same time, restarted unbound still no luck getting it to work

xplChris

Moin,

same here, pkg00 and pkg01 still resolves to the same addresses as before when asking netgates DNS Servers

root@fra3:~# dig +short @ns1.netgate.com pkg00.atx.netgate.com
208.123.73.207
root@fra3:~# nmap -Pn -p443 208.123.73.207
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-03-15 14:26 UTC
Nmap scan report for 208.123.73.207
Host is up.

PORT    STATE    SERVICE
443/tcp filtered https

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.11 seconds
root@fra3:~# dig +short @ns1.netgate.com pkg01.atx.netgate.com
208.123.73.209
root@fra3:~# nmap -Pn -p443 208.123.73.209
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-03-15 14:26 UTC
Nmap scan report for 208.123.73.209
Host is up.

PORT    STATE    SERVICE
443/tcp filtered https

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.43 seconds

Greetings from Hamburg
Chris

jimp

It's possible that it's still cached. If you run a command such as host -t srv _https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com it should be returning files00.netgate.com and files01.netgate.com.

Give it a few more minutes and try it again.

xplChris

Ah. now it works, a pkg-static -d update is now connecting to files00.netgate.com instead of pkg00.atx.netgate.com

Thanks!

NRgia

@jimp said in I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update:

It's possible that it's still cached. If you run a command such as host -t srv _https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com it should be returning files00.netgate.com and files01.netgate.com.

Give it a few more minutes and try it again.

Output of the above command is:

_https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com has SRV record 10 10 443 pk00.atx.netgate.com

I will try what @xplChris sugested

NRgia

@xplchris said in I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update:

Ah. now it works, a pkg-static -d update is now connecting to files00.netgate.com instead of pkg00.atx.netgate.com

Thanks!

It works after I used:

pkg-static -d update

Thank you

NRgia

@grandrivers said in I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update:

Well I also lost available packages all at same time, restarted unbound still no luck getting it to work

You should see them again after you fix this.

Try what @xplChris sugested

Cool_Corona

@nrgia said in I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update:

pkg-static -d update

Doesnt work here. Nothing shows up in architecture and cant check for updates.

NRgia

@cool_corona
What is the output of this:

host -t srv _https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com

Cool_Corona

@nrgia

_https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com has SRV record 10 10 443 files00.netgate.com.
_https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com has SRV record 10 10 443 files01.netgate.com.

jimp

Then you have some other unrelated issue, start a new thread.

Cool_Corona

@jimp Sorry.

Maybe its related to this... the dropdown is empty

NRgia

@cool_corona said in I get "pfSense-core has no meta file" and cannot update:

@nrgia

_https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com has SRV record 10 10 443 files00.netgate.com.
_https._tcp.packages-beta.netgate.com has SRV record 10 10 443 files01.netgate.com.

As per information provided by @jimp this looks good. Sorry, but I don't know what to suggest further.

jimp

That wouldn't be related to this. Start your own thread.

bimmerdriver

I'm running 2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64) built on Fri Mar 11 06:21:33 UTC 2022 and it will not update. I tried restarting unbound, but it made no difference.

Any suggestions?

UPDATE: I tried to update from the console and this time it worked.