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    check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1

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    • stephenw10S Offline
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @JeGr
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      @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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        Kelpie
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        Screenshot 2025-11-24 103526.png

        Hi I have the same issue

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          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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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              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.

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                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      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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                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Hmm, OK. Let me try to replicate that....

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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:

                          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.

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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            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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