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      DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10

      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@smiley.ahs.selfip.net]/root: pfSense-upgrade-dc
      pfSense-upgrade-dc: Command not found.
      
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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Sorry typo'd. Try: pfSense-upgrade -dc

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          DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
          last edited by DominikHoffmann

          @stephenw10

          [23.01-RELEASE][admin@smiley.ahs.selfip.net]/root: pfSense-upgrade -dc
          Another instance is already running... Aborting!
          

          Unfortunately, I will have to check with the client, whether rebooting the appliance is okay, if that is one of the troubleshooting steps for this.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Ok that would explain why the gui update is also failing.

            You can probably find that process and kill it. Or wait for it to timeout.

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              DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10: What would I search for in the list of running processes?

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                I would look for pkg-static. You might have soimething stuck if it was reinstalling a package after the upgrade. If it hasn't been rebooting since.

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                  DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10: System Activity shows nothing like that.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Hmm, try: ps -aux | grep pfSense-upgrade

                    Or: ps -aux | grep pkg-static

                    Both will show the grep process itself but should also show any stuck processes.

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                      DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
                      last edited by DominikHoffmann

                      @stephenw10

                      I tried

                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@***.***]/root: top -aSH | grep pkg
                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@***.***]/root: top -aSH | grep static
                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@***.***]/root: 
                      

                      Now trying your last suggestion:

                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@***.***]/root: ps -aux | grep pkg-static
                      root     1664   0.0  0.1  12660  2356  0  S+   11:57     0:00.01 grep pkg-static
                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@***.***]/root: ps -aux | grep pfSense-upgrade
                      root    59374   0.0  0.1  12660  2348  0  S+   11:59     0:00.01 grep pfSense-upgrade
                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@***.***]/root:
                      

                      Nothing there, either.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Huh, and it's still showing 'another process is running' when you run pfSense-upgrade -dc ?

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                          DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10 said in No available packages:

                          pfSense-upgrade -dc

                          Now I get

                          [23.01-RELEASE][admin@smiley.ahs.selfip.net]/root: pfSense-upgrade -dc
                          >>> Updating repositories metadata... 
                          Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
                          pfSense-core repository is up to date.
                          Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                          pfSense repository is up to date.
                          All repositories are up to date.
                          Your system is up to date
                          

                          … and I now see this:
                          Screenshot 2023-04-05 at 12.12.49 PM.png

                          This means that the problem resolved itself. Thanks a bunch!

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Yeah that all looks good. I'd guess there was a pkg process running that timed out since you first checked.

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                              planedrop
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                              Ran into this issue today after doing some maintenance on our HA setup and rebooting both nodes.

                              I removed some interfaces from our units (needed to install that CPIC card on a pair of 1541s), packages no longer showed after this, but I figured the NDI changed and I needed to re-register, so got 2 TAC Lite licenses and did this on each node.

                              So far, the primary works perfectly, no issues at all and I can view packages.

                              But the secondary/failover unit still can't see packages but can ping the outside world and resolve DNS.

                              However, another error is showing up that maybe would help a bit, multiple things are claiming a "Gateway, NONE AVAILABLE" error but only on this secondary node.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Try running pkg -d update and pfSense-upgrade -c at the command line. See what errors you're getting.

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                                  planedrop @stephenw10
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                                  @stephenw10 Yeah so I was getting the authentication errors when doing that (I was the one that DMed you about this shortly after this post), rebooted 2 more times and everything is back to normal. I'll be watching this secondary node closely though to see if any other abnormal things arise from it.

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                                    heisenberg352
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                                    I faced the problem as well running 2.7.0 CE

                                    The workaround System > Update > Update Settings > Save did not work for me.

                                    pkg-static -d update failed initially, due to "SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate in certificate chain".

                                    What worked was

                                    1. certctl rehash
                                    2. then pkg-static -d update

                                    That was successfull, now I can see all packages again..

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                                      DiDiWa @heisenberg352
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                                      @heisenberg352 Same problem here. Doing the rehash solved the problem for me! Thanks!

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                                        adamp @heisenberg352
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                                        @heisenberg352 Thank you. This did the trick for me as well.

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