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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • A Offline
      alnico
      last edited by

      I did get this error; could it be related?

      Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

amd64
15.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #0 plus-RELENG_25_07_1-n256513-49844af35a5d: Fri Aug 15 19:21:04 UTC 2025     root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-Plus-snapshots-25_07_1-main/obj/amd64/DZizCvOj/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-Plus-snapshots-25_07_1-main/sources

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[DATE-TIME-REDACTED] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:444
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(444): gettext()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 444



No FreeBSD crash data found.
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        timecode
        last edited by

        Have done a reboot and the odd repository messages have subsided which is good.

        HOWEVER, it now seems to be flip flopping between needing package updates, and not.

        Randomly various packages will show as yellow. Then try and update - system tells me I need to update before installing. I am on latest plus version 25.07.1.

        I get the feeling something is happening at home base and its causing us fleeting issues.

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        • K Offline
          Kelpie
          last edited by Kelpie

          Upgraded from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1

          a week ago

          sometimes in the system update menu goes back commercial version and on the dashboard

          Nov 8 15:24:00 php 12152 Standard input code: New alert found: check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1
          Nov 8 15:19:52 php 93775 Standard input code: New alert found: check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1
          Nov 8 15:17:48 php 28987 Standard input code: New alert found: check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1
          Nov 8 15:17:17 php 19559 Standard input code: New alert found: check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1
          Nov 8 15:14:12 php 73350 Standard input code: New alert found: check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1
          Nov 8 15:03:20 php 32733 Standard input code: New alert found: check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1

          got a lot some time today

          very random sometimes wont happen for hours.

          Home Assistant logs
          2025-11-08 02:00:17.161 ERROR (SyncWorker_3) [custom_components.pfsense.pypfsense] Unexpected get_firmware_update_info error err=TimeoutError('timed out'), type(err)=<class 'TimeoutError'>
          2025-11-08 02:01:10.448 WARNING (Recorder) [homeassistant.components.recorder.db_schema] State attributes for binary_sensor.XXXXXXX_pending_notices_present exceed maximum size of 16384 bytes. This can cause database performance issues; Attributes will not be stored

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            ddavis000
            last edited by

            I started seeing these messages when I upgraded to 2.8.0 and they continued through 2.8.1. I usual get a couple a week but over the last three days I've had 487 of them (shorten due to post length restriction):

            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 11:55:08
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:01:24
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:08:33
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:11:08
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:17:20
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:24:03
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:24:28
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:26:38
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:30:47
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:33:21
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:36:58
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:39:02
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:48:51
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:55:03
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:55:28
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:56:36
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 12:58:09
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:01:17
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:04:21
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:07:27
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:07:52
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:09:31
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:10:33
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:20:55
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:23:29
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:26:35
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:27:00
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:32:16
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:36:24
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:40:01
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:42:05
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:43:07
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:45:11
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:46:13
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:48:48
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:49:50
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:51:54
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:52:56
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:53:21
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:55:00
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:57:04
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:58:06
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:59:08
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 13:59:33
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:00:41
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:01:43
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:03:50
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:04:53
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:07:31
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:08:33
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:11:39
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:14:14
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:16:50
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:17:51
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:22:38
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:23:40
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:26:15
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:26:40
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:28:20
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:28:44
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:29:52
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:35:03
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:35:28
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:40:44
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:41:09
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:45:54
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:50:02
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:51:04
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:53:08
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:54:41
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:56:45
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 14:57:47
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 15:01:29
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 15:03:59
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 15:04:24
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 15:06:03
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 15:07:05
check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-06 15:09:09

            ...
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 02:48:01
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 02:52:09
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 03:56:44
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 04:08:38
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:11:09
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:11:39
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:12:14
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:19:57
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:35:27
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:35:58
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 05:38:32
            check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-08 06:02:50

            output of pfSense-upgrade -dc

            Updating repositories metadata...
            Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
            Fetching meta.conf:
            Fetching data.pkg:
            pfSense-core repository is up to date.
            Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
            Fetching meta.conf:
            Fetching data.pkg:
            pfSense repository is up to date.
            All repositories are up to date.
            Your system is up to date

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            • static418S Offline
              static418
              last edited by

              I'm also getting stacks of
              check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1 @ 2025-11-07 18:29:51

              66 on my main firewall, less frequently on some remote installs but I cleared a pile of them on each earlier in the week. Switching from pfsense CE to pfsense plus as an upgrade path on machines I've never registered, then back again.

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              • T Offline
                tariqali
                last edited by

                Jumping in with a "me too", seeing a bunch of these errors recently as well.

                Anyone figure out how to stop them yet?

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                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  A backend change has been reverted. You should not hit this issue now. Or at least not for that reason.

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                  • K Offline
                    Kelpie @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 Thankyou

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                    • T Offline
                      tariqali @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10 Thank you, so far so good today, no errors.

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                      • G Offline
                        ghc88
                        last edited by

                        Can also confirm the high number of errors has stopped here as well. Do we have any idea what it is about 2.8 onwards that causes them to occur occasionally?

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                        • static418S Offline
                          static418 @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10
                          Looks like success to me! No new alerts since yesterday afternoon on any of my sites. Much appreciated :)

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