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    Problem after upgrading to 24.11-RC

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      About the only thing I could imagine being an issue in the config is the pkg branch setting.

      However in the new dynamic repo system the firewall cannot pull in older pkgs. The reo tree presented to 24.11-RC systems does not have the older branches available.

      And when we checked your pkgs they all looked like the correct versions... 🤔

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        m.d.frederiksen @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10

        Remote access for your tech staff is offered (again).

        I am pretty positive one of the devs (wizards) could trace into the failing "pkg info" command, and tell us whats up in 90 seconds flat :-)

        In any case .. I am stuck as of now.

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          m.d.frederiksen @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10

          A thought has struck me ..

          Remember at the beginning of this thread, that I tested the offending command without the "2>&1" redirect,
          and it complets with NO errors, and correctly generates the expected list directly to the console ..

          But it fails when the redirect is present ..

          Suppose this problem is not sourcing the list, but rather that target denies "entry" ?
          A priviledge-issue, insufficient rights to some ressource (the redirect target) ?

          Tried this in CLI:

          pkg clean -y
          pkg upgrade -f

          No change .. :-)

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @m.d.frederiksen
            last edited by

            @m-d-frederiksen said in Problem after upgrading to 24.11-RC:

            Remote access for your tech staff is offered (again).

            Yes, thank you. I believe they plan to do so on Monday if you're able to do that.

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              m.d.frederiksen @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10

              BRILLIANT !

              Please instruct me on what environment you need / expect ?

              Do you need a workstation running specific host-software on LAN, .. and so on.

              Thanks in advance.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @m.d.frederiksen
                last edited by

                @m-d-frederiksen said in Problem after upgrading to 24.11-RC:

                Suppose this problem is not sourcing the list, but rather that target denies "entry" ?
                A priviledge-issue, insufficient rights to some ressource (the redirect target) ?

                Are you not logged in as admin/root when you tried this?

                The redirect is not expected to work at the CLI directly but it should work fine when called by repoc.

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                  m.d.frederiksen @stephenw10
                  last edited by m.d.frederiksen

                  @stephenw10

                  Yes, in my simple attempt to fathom the issue, I claim that the "2>&1" is the part that is the culprit.
                  The recieving end is unable to parse the generated list.
                  The same list that looks perfectly valid when NOT redirected, - in the console.

                  And yes, I am root ..

                  pfSense 24.03_root.jpg

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                    m.d.frederiksen @m.d.frederiksen
                    last edited by

                    UPDATE:

                    Zeek has left the equation .. apparently felt the heat.
                    Now pfBlockerNG alone is keeping up the shenanigans.

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                    • cmcdonaldC
                      cmcdonald Netgate Developer @m.d.frederiksen
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                      @m-d-frederiksen send me an email cmcdonald<at>netgate.com so we can setup a remote access session. Thanks

                      Need help fast? https://www.netgate.com/support

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                        m.d.frederiksen @cmcdonald
                        last edited by m.d.frederiksen

                        @cmcdonald

                        Mail has been sent. Thank you.

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                        • cmcdonaldC
                          cmcdonald Netgate Developer @m.d.frederiksen
                          last edited by

                          We've worked it out, root cause identified and a fix proposed. Unsure yet how this will impact the 24.11-RELEASE.

                          If you are impacted by this, make sure to uninstall any packages that you are not actively using.

                          Need help fast? https://www.netgate.com/support

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                          • cmcdonaldC
                            cmcdonald Netgate Developer @cmcdonald
                            last edited by

                            The fix will land in 24.11 after all :)

                            Need help fast? https://www.netgate.com/support

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                              Draco @m.d.frederiksen
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                              @m-d-frederiksen Thank you for preserving and helping Netgate track this bug down. You've helped make pfSense better for all of us!!

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                                williamrolison
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                                I hit this with 24.11 final build.

                                Everything seemed to go fine until the reboot. 1.5 hours later system still offline. Had to power cycle to get back up then saw upgrade didn't happen.

                                Ended up having to remove 4 packages before update would work:

                                pfBlockerNG
                                WireGuard
                                Zeek
                                Ntopng

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Hmm, it still failed with that same pkg error from repoc?

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                                    williamrolison @stephenw10
                                    last edited by

                                    I'm afraid so, but at least this post was first hit on Google so if others hit, it's easy enough to fix / workaround.

                                    Those packages I listed need updates anyway it seems, as they all give PHP errors too.

                                    I noticed they all had updates prior to the 24.11 upgrade. Meant to mention I tried that first, updating all packages, rebooting, then trying the upgrade, but same issue. It only worked after I uninstalled all four packages. Hell Ntopng was not working at all anymore, no error but the site on port 3000 never loaded, but that is a project for another day.

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                                      m.d.frederiksen @williamrolison
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                                      @williamrolison

                                      I had this issue too at one point.

                                      I finally ended up making a LAN-firewall-rule for port 3000 (HBCI) and the specific destination (this firewall), and an alias as Source. The alias holds the machines I want to allow access ..

                                      Hope it helps 🥺

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        Hmm, so to be clear it tried to upgrade and then you ended up with no branches showing and the pkg error from repoc?

                                        And after removing some packages repoc returned cleanly and the pkg repo branches returned?

                                        How many packages did you have installed?

                                        The bug that should be fixed in 24.11 was caused by the package list sent by repoc being so long it overran the allowed size.

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