Ver 22.05 - Unable to check for updates, pkg info reports invalid url

sheetsg77

on dashboard, I get message "Unable to check for updates"

on SystemPackage ManagerInstalled Packages, I get "There are no packages currently installed." when infact, packages are loaded and operational (i.e. pfBlockerNG)

in shell, running "pkg info" returns

pkg: invalid url: /pfSense_plus-v22_05_amd64-core
pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!

Any ideas what to look at/for?

Gertjan

@sheetsg77

Check and try this.

sheetsg77

Yup, going to System/Update and changing to "Experimental", waiting for spinning wheel to finish, then changing back to "Stable" fixed the issue. Strange, but it worked.

Thanks

Gertjan

@sheetsg77

Swapping the repository, from stable to dev to stable, forces the system download a new repository file. This new file will be good.
( my way of understanding things )

bingo600

@gertjan said in Ver 22.05 - Unable to check for updates, pkg info reports invalid url:

@sheetsg77

Swapping the repository, from stable to dev to stable, forces the system download a new repository file. This new file will be good.
( my way of understanding things )

That is correct ...
Netgate "Borked" a repos update (repos URL was not complete), that was active for some hours. Any "Box" pulling an update during that time , was left with an invalid repos update file.

Switching to dev and back to stable, will pull the latest/"Non Borked" stable repos file.

/Bingo

Gertjan

@bingo600

Does this implies that, ones a bad /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf ( /usr/local/share/pfSEnse/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf) has been pulled in, update requests are impossible as long as admin doesn't correct things ?

bingo600

@gertjan
Yep

See
https://forum.netgate.com/post/1062012

Bad

pfSense-core: {
  url: "/pfSense_plus-v22_05_amd64-core",

Updated/fixed:

pfSense-core: {
  url: "pkg+https://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_plus-v22_05_amd64-core",

stephenw10

@gertjan said in Ver 22.05 - Unable to check for updates, pkg info reports invalid url:

Does this implies that, ones a bad /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf ( /usr/local/share/pfSEnse/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf) has been pulled in, update requests are impossible as long as admin doesn't correct things ?

Yes, though that file is only a sym-link to the repo files in /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos/.
Those files are provided by the repo pkg and that's what was broken for a short time.

Steve