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      Spacecase @JeGr
      last edited by Spacecase

      @JeGr These were my observations. For all I know, the change that triggered the error code could be related to something else occurring in another repository at the same time. Or, it could be a clue to a common mode fault. Do you know how often pfSense polls updates?

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        It checks for available upgrades every 24hrs or whenever you open the dashboard if you have the system info widget on there.

        But it will try to update the pkg db any time you do a pkg operation.

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          Spacecase @stephenw10
          last edited by Spacecase

          @stephenw10

          I might've been checking Package Manager or Patches at the time. And, yes, I have a System Info widget.

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            JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator @stephenw10
            last edited by JeGr

            @stephenw10 said in check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1:

            It checks for available upgrades every 24hrs or whenever you open the dashboard if you have the system info widget on there.

            But it will try to update the pkg db any time you do a pkg operation.

            The error got triggered way more then that. I have logs where it essentially spammed the syslog while noone was logged in so no dashboard etc.

            Also on another note: the "failed" PKG that is now a way higher version and can't be run essentially blocks the LLDPD package from running as it throws the same elf-ld.so errors around. So if someone could please fix that new pkg package being pushed downwards to 25.07 when NOT trying to update, that would be great, as it essentially fucks up a few packets that won't work anymore :/

            I have to manually run pkg-static install -f pkg and forcefully downgrade it to 1.21.3_5 again so my services come up again.

            when the next push happens and pkg happens to happily update to an incompatible version again, those will all go down the again. I don't think it's helpful to have pkg always update to a new version when not even trying to upgrade (e.g. to the RC) especially when other packages have dependencies to the same libraries as pkg does. So given for example for said LLDPd.

            Cheers

            edit: just as an example from yesterday night's log just before the rotation. logged in around 11:30pm so waaay later then the logs show. So that error - when it happenes - is not only triggered every 24h or when pkg ops run - something triggers it often and hard.

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @JeGr
              last edited by

              @JeGr said in check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1:

              essentially blocks the LLDPD package from running as it throws the same elf-ld.so errors around.

              Hmm, that's unexpected. pkg is the only think that would ever update itself. The non-static version then fails because the libs are not updated.

              Do you have the output error shown by lldpd?

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              • K Offline
                Kelpie
                last edited by

                Screenshot 2025-11-24 103526.png

                Hi I have the same issue

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                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by stephenw10

                  What do you see from: pfSense-upgrade -dc

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                    Kelpie @stephenw10
                    last edited by stephenw10

                    @stephenw10

                    >>> 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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                    • stephenw10S Offline
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      OK that seems fine. You might try: pkg-static -d update

                      But I would expect pfSense-upgrade to throw an error if that does.

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                        stevo11811
                        last edited by

                        It seems to be fixed this morning on all firewalls I was having trouble with.

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                        • stephenw10S Offline
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Ah good to hear.

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                            JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator @stephenw10
                            last edited by JeGr

                            @stephenw10 said in check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1:

                            Do you have the output error shown by lldpd?

                            It's likely the same as pkg itself, an elf error because of ld.so mismatch due to wrong version of a library. I think it was either libc.so.7 or libssl.so.30 or one among those lines. It'd surely be easy to reproduce when you have a 25.07 VM and manually upgrade pkg to 2.x.x instead of 1.12.5.

                            Edit:

                            [25.07.1-RELEASE][admin@pfs-plus-2507.lab.test]/root: pkg info
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.10" not found, required by "pkg"

[25.07.1-RELEASE][admin@pfs-plus-2507.lab.test]/root: lldpd
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.10" not found, required by "libpkg.so.4"

                            after manually force-down installing pkg to 1.12.5 again, the errors also stopped.

                            Cheers

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                            • stephenw10S Offline
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              But those libs are not updated when pkg gets upgraded. That;s why the new pkg fails to run unless it's run with statically linked libs. So I wouldn't expect anything else to be affected unless that was also upgraded. But, yes, let me confirm....

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                              • stephenw10S Offline
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Hmm, OK. Let me try to replicate that....

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                                • JeGrJ Offline
                                  JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator @stephenw10
                                  last edited by JeGr

                                  @stephenw10 said in check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1:

                                  Hmm, OK. Let me try to replicate that....

                                  I did that 5min ago, so it does indeed hang on libutil or some other it seems ;)

                                  Anyway it's one of the dependency libs that PKG and LLDPd share that seems to be borked whenever pkg is "over-updating" itself. ldd shows a LOT they have in common. I forgot to make a ldd-run before and after, that should have shown some light into it.

                                  Don't forget to upvote 👍 those who kindly offered their time and brainpower to help you!

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                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Ok I can see how this would break it but, for some reason, I'm now failing to replicate it. Digging....

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