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    Causes for: “pkg: An error occured while fetching package”?

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      DominikHoffmann @stephenw10
      last edited by

      @stephenw10: I had my issue occur again on the Netgate 1100 of another client of mine. The upgrade attempt was prompted by the curl update from 8.4.0 to 8.5.0.

      Same issue:

      [23.09-RELEASE][***@***.***]/root: pkg upgrade
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
Unable to update repository pfSense
Error updating repositories!
[23.09-RELEASE][***@***.***]/root:

      Then, as you suggested, I ran pfSense-repoc. A rerun of pkg upgrade resulted in this:

      [23.09-RELEASE][***@***.***]/root: pkg upgrade
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    163 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching packagesite.pkg: 100%    2 KiB   1.6kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
pfSense-core repository update completed. 5 packages processed.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    163 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching packagesite.pkg: 100%  185 KiB 189.5kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
pfSense repository update completed. 713 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (1 candidates): 100%
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
	curl: 8.4.0 -> 8.5.0 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 1

1 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching curl-8.5.0.pkg: 100%    1 MiB   1.4MB/s    00:01    
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Upgrading curl from 8.4.0 to 8.5.0...
[1/1] Extracting curl-8.5.0: 100%
[23.09-RELEASE][***@***.***/root:

      In other words, success!

      So, my question is what does pfSense-repoc do?

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan @DominikHoffmann
        last edited by

        @DominikHoffmann
        Be careful, you are breaking the rules.
        23.09.1 is out since a week, so you should upgrade pfSense itself first, before upgrading anything else like packages, or OS packages like this "curl: 8.4.0 -> 8.5.0 [pfSense]".

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          pfSense-repoc is the client program for updating the dynamic repo branches. When you run it a new client cert is pulled and the repo branches are updated.

          In your case it allows pkg to access the repos because the client cert had expired. The cert gets updated whenever you visit the gui so usually you would not hit that.

          The updated curl version should be fine. It was updated in our repo to address a recent issue.

          Steve

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            netblues @stephenw10
            last edited by

            Same issue here
            pfSense-repoc
            pfSense-repoc: invalid signature
            failed to read the repo data.

            Tried rebooting, no dice

            pkg-static -d update
DBG(1)[51121]> pkg initialized
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[51121]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
DBG(1)[51121]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense-core
DBG(1)[51121]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
DBG(1)[51121]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com/pfSense_plus-v23_09_1_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[51121]> curl_open
DBG(1)[51121]> Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[51121]> curl> fetching https://pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com/pfSense_plus-v23_09_1_amd64-core/meta.conf

DBG(1)[51121]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 3

* Couldn't find host pfsense-plus-pkg00.atx.netgate.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
*   Trying 208.123.73.207:443...
* Connected to pfsense-plus-pkg00.atx.netgate.com (208.123.73.207) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/netgate-ca.pem
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: C=US; ST=Texas; L=Austin; O=Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate); OU=pfSense Plus; CN=pfsense-plus-pkg00.atx.netgate.com
*  start date: Mar 15 20:23:11 2022 GMT
*  expire date: Feb 19 20:23:11 2122 GMT
*  common name: pfsense-plus-pkg00.atx.netgate.com (matched)
*  issuer: C=US; ST=Texas; L=Austin; O=Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate); OU=Netgate CA; CN=Netgate CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/1.1
> GET /pfSense_plus-v23_09_1_amd64-core/meta.conf HTTP/1.1
Host: pfsense-plus-pkg00.atx.netgate.com
User-Agent: pkg/1.20.8
Accept: */*
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Server: nginx
< Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:02:45 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 208
< Connection: close
< 
* Closing connection

            Time is correct. Any pointers, more than welcome

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Send me your NDI in chat and I'll check it.

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                netblues @stephenw10
                last edited by

                @stephenw10 ah, yes.. I added one more interface.. A better message would be nice

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                  netblues @netblues
                  last edited by

                  Thanks for resolving this.

                  However, what comes to mind is that every time an interface is changed one has to go through the process of support.
                  I understand that this is not happening on a physical device, but on a virtualized is another story.
                  Do I get the same if running pfsense on aws?

                  There should be something better than that regarding licensing checks.

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                    i.najmi
                    last edited by

                    Hi Guys

                    I have a similar issue, not sure if it is the same issue or not. But i am not able to see any packages in available packages.

                    i ran pkg-static -d update command and below is the update.

                    DBG(1)[72296]> pkg initialized
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[72296]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
DBG(1)[72296]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
DBG(1)[72296]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[72296]> curl_open
DBG(1)[72296]> Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[72296]> curl> fetching https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/meta.conf

DBG(1)[72296]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 3

* Couldn't find host pkg01-atx.netgate.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
*   Trying 208.123.73.209:443...
*   Trying [2610:160:11:18::209]:443...
* Immediate connect fail for 2610:160:11:18::209: No route to host
* Connected to pkg01-atx.netgate.com (208.123.73.209) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
*  CAfile: none
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=*.netgate.com
*  start date: Mar 21 00:00:00 2023 GMT
*  expire date: Apr 20 23:59:59 2024 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "pkg01-atx.netgate.com" matched cert's "*.netgate.com"
*  issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/1.1
> GET /pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/meta.conf HTTP/1.1
Host: pkg01-atx.netgate.com
User-Agent: pkg/1.20.8
Accept: */*
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:23:59 GMT

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Fetching meta.conf: < Server: nginx
< Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:22:16 GMT
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 163
< Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:23:58 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< ETag: "6570e66e-a3"
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Robots-Tag: all
< X-Download-Options: noopen
< X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies: none
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
<
* The requested document is not new enough
* Simulate an HTTP 304 response
* Closing connection

DBG(1)[72296]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[72296]> curl_open
DBG(1)[72296]> Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[72296]> curl> fetching https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg

DBG(1)[72296]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 3

* Couldn't find host pkg01-atx.netgate.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* Hostname pkg01-atx.netgate.com was found in DNS cache
*   Trying 208.123.73.209:443...
*   Trying [2610:160:11:18::209]:443...
* Immediate connect fail for 2610:160:11:18::209: No route to host
* Connected to pkg01-atx.netgate.com (208.123.73.209) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
*  CAfile: none
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=*.netgate.com
*  start date: Mar 21 00:00:00 2023 GMT
*  expire date: Apr 20 23:59:59 2024 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "pkg01-atx.netgate.com" matched cert's "*.netgate.com"
*  issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/1.1
> GET /pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg HTTP/1.1
Host: pkg01-atx.netgate.com
User-Agent: pkg/1.20.8
Accept: */*
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:23:59 GMT

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Fetching packagesite.pkg: < Server: nginx
< Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:22:17 GMT
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 1496
< Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:23:59 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< ETag: "6570e66f-5d8"
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Robots-Tag: all
< X-Download-Options: noopen
< X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies: none
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
<
* The requested document is not new enough
* Simulate an HTTP 304 response
* Closing connection

pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[72296]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense
DBG(1)[72296]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense
DBG(1)[72296]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
DBG(1)[72296]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_2/meta.conf
DBG(1)[72296]> curl_open
DBG(1)[72296]> Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[72296]> curl> fetching https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_2/meta.conf

DBG(1)[72296]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 3

* Couldn't find host pkg00-atx.netgate.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
*   Trying 208.123.73.207:443...
*   Trying [2610:160:11:18::207]:443...
* Immediate connect fail for 2610:160:11:18::207: No route to host
* Connected to pkg00-atx.netgate.com (208.123.73.207) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
*  CAfile: none
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=*.netgate.com
*  start date: Mar 21 00:00:00 2023 GMT
*  expire date: Apr 20 23:59:59 2024 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "pkg00-atx.netgate.com" matched cert's "*.netgate.com"
*  issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/1.1
> GET /pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_2/meta.conf HTTP/1.1
Host: pkg00-atx.netgate.com
User-Agent: pkg/1.20.8
Accept: */*
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Fetching meta.conf: < Server: nginx
< Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:22:34 GMT
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 163
< Last-Modified: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:29:08 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< ETag: "65833274-a3"
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Robots-Tag: all
< X-Download-Options: noopen
< X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies: none
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
<
. done
* Connection #0 to host pkg00-atx.netgate.com left intact
DBG(1)[72296]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_2/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[72296]> curl_open
DBG(1)[72296]> Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[72296]> curl> fetching https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_2/packagesite.pkg

DBG(1)[72296]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 3

* Couldn't find host pkg00-atx.netgate.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* Found bundle for host: 0x606222345a0 [serially]
* Re-using existing connection with host pkg00-atx.netgate.com
> GET /pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_2/packagesite.pkg HTTP/1.1
Host: pkg00-atx.netgate.com
User-Agent: pkg/1.20.8
Accept: */*
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Fetching packagesite.pkg: < Server: nginx
< Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:22:34 GMT
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 160728
< Last-Modified: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:29:09 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< ETag: "65833275-273d8"
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Robots-Tag: all
< X-Download-Options: noopen
< X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies: none
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
<
..... done
* Connection #0 to host pkg00-atx.netgate.com left intact
DBG(1)[72296]> PkgRepo: extracting packagesite.yaml of repo pfSense
DBG(1)[4008]> PkgRepo: extracting signature of repo in a sandbox
DBG(1)[72296]> Pkgrepo, reading new packagesite.yaml for '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
Processing entries: .......... done
pfSense repository update completed. 549 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.

                    Appreciate all the help i can get. just a word that i am complete noob to pfsense so you may have to treat me as stupid and explain the steps to me.

                    Thanks
                    Najmi

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @netblues
                      last edited by

                      @netblues said in Causes for: “pkg: An error occured while fetching package”?:

                      There should be something better than that regarding licensing checks.

                      Updates to accommodate that are coming. But until that time, yes, adding NICs to a system is seen as significant hardware change and will change the NDI.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @i.najmi
                        last edited by

                        @i-najmi said in Causes for: “pkg: An error occured while fetching package”?:

                        Processing entries: .......... done
                        pfSense repository update completed. 549 packages processed.
                        All repositories are up to date.

                        That is not an error, it successfully updated the pkg list.
                        What exactly are you seeing?

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                          i.najmi @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10 looks like the issue got resolved by itself today

                          Thanks for your help.

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