Attempting to update to 23.01 DEVEL corrupts my pfSense installation
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@stephenw10 It also choked on mine as well when going to option 13 in addition to the web cinfigurator. Package repos were missing and constant Unable to Checks. FWIW and I'm probably wrong it seemed moving up and down between 2.6 to 2.7 and of course 22.05 to 23.01 was potentially corrupting a file that does not get deleted on fresh reinstalls. Why I say this is I had to use disk management software in order to truly blow away the disk and get a clean install, once done all installs went as expected.
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Ok I partially replicated that. Digging...
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@stephenw10 are you able to explain what you saw/found? Based on what I see, there is something jacked up with whatever file/information is downloaded by the router when I switch to the 23.01 repo. For kicks, I tried another fresh install, then switched to 23.01 repo....after the router downloaded whatever it pulls back from Netgate, 23.01 changed to 22.09 and then it couldn't check for updates. I tried again, and then 22.09 just became DEVEL. And now the router is unable to check for updates regardless of the repo I set. But it all starts the instant I try to use the devel repo. I feel like, and strongly suspect, that there is a bad configuration in whatever Netgate's setup/file is.
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Yeah, we found the problem. Devs are working on a solution now.
Yes, the updated pfSebse-upgrade script is essentially switching to the new pkg system from 23.01 before it's actually pulled in the required info to use it.
A fix should be incoming shortly.
Steve
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@stephenw10 woohoo! I’m not a freaking lunatic! You’ve helped me save my sanity. Do you have an estimate when the fix might be live? I won’t hold your feet to the fire over it but just a ballpark idea.
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I was digging into it last night myself. I simply commented out the code to confirm what was breaking but that's not a fix. The main developer on this was also working on it so it may be fixed already.
I'll reply here when I know more this morning.Steve
Edit: It's not fixed yet, waiting to hear more...
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@stephenw10 ok will standby. I’m embarrassed to even think about the number of times I’ve reinstalled pfsense on that router over the last week as I’ve tried various combinations of ways to maybe get things to work.
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@gabacho4 Ran into the same issue. Posting here for updates on the matter.
Ted Quade
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@stephenw10 wanted to check in and see if you had any idea when a fix would be completed. At this point, it’s been at least 2 weeks since I was able to install or update a 23.01 development build. Doing so itches a personal interest of course, but it’s also enabled me to help find bugs - including this show stopping bug/regression - and test fixes. I’d love to get back at it but have no ability.
Is this the redmine entry?
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No that's not the Redmine entry for this. Let me see if there's an update yet....
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@stephenw10 that’d be great! Is there a redmine entry for this issue?
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Only internally right now. Let me see...
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Trying to upgrade from 22.09 -> 23.01.a.20221205.0600 failing:
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version __RC=1 __REBOOT_AFTER=10 ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version __RC=1 __REBOOT_AFTER=10 >>> Updating repositories metadata... pkg-static: Unable to open '/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos//pfSense.conf':No such file or directory No active remote repositories configured. >>> Locking package pkg... done. ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-upgrade remote version >>> Unlocking package pkg... done. __RC=1 __REBOOT_AFTER=10 ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-upgrade remote version __RC=1 __REBOOT_AFTER=10 >>> Upgrading pfSense-upgrade... failed. -
@cloudroot yeah that’s the same issue. Guess it still hasn’t been fixed.
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Indeed, I'm still hitting it this morning. Bug link incoming....
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Is there already a solution to the problem of restoring normal functioning after such an unsuccessful update?
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@viper_rus reinstall 22.05 unfortunately. Maybe there is some sort of recovery install one can do that I haven’t taken time to learn. If not, hope you have a backup of your config. you may be able to recover the xml when you reinstall but I’d read the documentation for how to do that.
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@gabacho4
Understood. Thanks for the answer. I hope the developers will write later how this can be fixed by completely saving the settings, because. the backup before the update attempt is quite old -
@viper_rus probably best not to run snapshots (basically an alpha product) on a production device or without making sure you have a very current backup or 50.
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@viper_rus I’d try the recover config option as explained here:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-during-install.html
