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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Yeah, switch to dev(22.11) and then back to prev(22.01). The should restore the correct repos pkg.

      You shouldn't need to edit anything manually. But if you do then, yes, it should be 22_01 since that's what you're running.

      Steve

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        KB8DOA @bingo600
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        @bingo600

        Did you mean switch the Firmware Branch to "Latest development snapshots (Experimental 22.09 DEVEL)" then Save
        Then
        switch the Firmware Branch to "Previous stable version (22.01)" then Save
        ?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Yes, that ^.

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            KB8DOA @stephenw10
            last edited by KB8DOA

            @stephenw10

            Reboot needed?
            Because that did not resolve it for me.

            Still getting "There are no packages currently installed."

            And if I go to System Update, getting "Unable to check for updates"

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Check the system log. Do you see the repo package being upgraded and then downgraded again?

              This could be a completely different problem of course.

              Try running at the command line: pkg -d update
              See what error it throws.

              Steve

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                KB8DOA @stephenw10
                last edited by KB8DOA

                @stephenw10 @bingo600

                It is now working and is seeing updates and packages correctly for v22.01

                Thank you all, for your assistance.

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                  TheQuank @Matt2
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                  @matt2 Worked on my Super Micro 1537 one too. Thanks so much!

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                    gothixkhan
                    last edited by

                    @bingo600 said in Unable to check for updates (SOLVED):

                    https://forum.netgate.com/post/1062058

                    My sincerest apologies to revive a resolved thread.
                    currently experiencing this error.
                    switching the upgrade channel to DEVEL and back to upgrade+ did not work for me.

                    command pkg -d update keeps throwing certificate errors.

                    this is a fresh install of pfsense 2.6

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                    • bingo600B
                      bingo600 @gothixkhan
                      last edited by

                      @gothixkhan
                      The above solution, was due to an update error that Netgate made.
                      I doubt they would make the same mistake again.

                      I think there is something else : Than an incomplete update URL, causing your issue.

                      /Bingo

                      If you find my answer useful - Please give the post a šŸ‘ - "thumbs up"

                      pfSense+ 23.05.1 (ZFS)

                      QOTOM-Q355G4 Quad Lan.
                      CPUĀ  : Core i5 5250U, Ram : 8GB Kingston DDR3LV 1600
                      LANĀ  : 4 x Intel 211, DiskĀ  : 240G SAMSUNG MZ7L3240HCHQ SSD

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Yes, any error you're seeing now is not the same cause.
                        What's the actual error 'pkg -d update' shows?

                        I know there were some backend issues yesterday you could potentially have been hitting.

                        Steve

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                          gothixkhan @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 it alternates between Certificate and authentication issues.

                          it flips on reboot.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Can we see the exact error text?

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                              gothixkhan @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 not anymore, apparently.
                              it works now?

                              I'm sorry

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Cool, good to hear. šŸ‘

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                                  gothixkhan @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10 just to clarify what I did and why it worked.

                                  I had it set to the development branch.
                                  I think you guys had a release either yesterday or the day before.
                                  the updater + upgrade to pf+ only works because it picked up the new release, which is 20221220.1549

                                  up until yesterday it was erroring out.

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                                    briddle @Matt2
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                                    @matt2

                                    I had the same issue and this worked like a charm!

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                                      wifi-will @sgc
                                      last edited by

                                      @sgc Fixed for me. THankyou!

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                                        Jare 0
                                        last edited by

                                        Still having trouble with this.

                                        I'm on a 6100 - running 22.01.

                                        When running "pkg -d update" I get different errors depending on the selected firmware branch. I get an invalid link error on the release branches and the dev branch gives me much more... few examples below. I can post the entire result if needed.

                                        "pkg: Repository pfSense-core has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database"

                                        "DBG(1)[79952]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense-core"

                                        "pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64"

                                        "pkg: repository pfSense-core contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:14:amd64"

                                        "Processing entries... done"

                                        "Unable to update repository pfSense-core"

                                        "Error updating repositories!"

                                        I've searched around and found some info on forced update of the database but thought I'd check in here first.

                                        Thank you.

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Looks like you may have pulled in a bad pfSense-upgrade at some point. What does pkg info pfSense-upgrade show?
                                          You may need to switch the repo back to 22.01 and force reinstall pfSense-upgrade from there.

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                                            Jare 0 @stephenw10
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                                            @stephenw10

                                            pfSense-upgrade-1.0_27
                                            Name : pfSense-upgrade
                                            Version : 1.0_27
                                            Installed on : Fri Sep 16 19:48:18 2022 EDT
                                            Origin : sysutils/pfSense-upgrade
                                            Architecture : FreeBSD:12:amd64
                                            Prefix : /usr/local
                                            Categories : sysutils
                                            Licenses : APACHE20
                                            Maintainer : coreteam@pfsense.org
                                            WWW : https://www.pfsense.org/
                                            Comment : pfSense upgrade script
                                            Annotations :
                                            FreeBSD_version: 1203506
                                            build_timestamp: 2022-09-08T00:05:44+0000
                                            built_by : poudriere-git-3.3.99.20220831
                                            port_checkout_unclean: no
                                            port_git_hash : 83c4d6dbf695
                                            ports_top_checkout_unclean: yes
                                            ports_top_git_hash: 8065fbca4d5a
                                            repo_type : binary
                                            repository : pfSense
                                            Flat size : 63.7KiB
                                            Description :
                                            pfSense upgrade script

                                            WWW: https://www.pfsense.org/

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