[SOLVED] Package installer incorrectly reporting failure

[PantsManUK]

Running 2.3-ALPHA 20151021, after every package install I've tried thus far, the GUI reports failure, while the package log shows success.

(Loving the new GUI BTW)

[phil.davis]

My test system is running 2.3-ALPHA (amd64) built on Sat Oct 24 00:24:51 CDT 2015

I just installed the same arping package and got success everywhere.

Renato was doing a bunch of work on that in the last week - I guess the 20151021 snapshot had code in a not-so-good state. I would try a newer snapshot.

By the way, there was some code just committed that makes the package installer work correctly for the reinstall-all case as well. So it would be good to use a snapshot that was built within the last few hours or later.

[PantsManUK]

@phil.davis:

By the way, there was some code just committed that makes the package installer work correctly for the reinstall-all case as well. So it would be good to use a snapshot that was built within the last few hours or later.

Will do Phil. Thnx for the reply.

[PantsManUK]

I'm seeing same behaviour in this morning's build.

[Steve_B]

I have not been able to reproduce this either.

Would you mind running another installation please and then posting the last few lines from the files:

• /tmp/webgui-log.txt

• /tmp/webgui-log.json

That should provide some clues.

Thanks!

[PantsManUK]

[2.3-ALPHA][root@pfSense.pantsmanuk.org]/root: tail /tmp/webgui-log.txt 
	pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup: 1.29 [pfSense]

The process will require 49 KiB more space.
10 KiB to be downloaded.
Fetching pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup-1.29.txz: . done
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Installing pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup-1.29...
[1/1] Extracting pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup-1.29: ......... done
>>> Cleaning up cache... done.
__RC=0

[2.3-ALPHA][root@pfSense.pantsmanuk.org]/root: tail /tmp/webgui-log.json 
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 3, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 4, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 5, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 6, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 7, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 8, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 9, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 9, "total" : 0}}
{ "type": "INFO_EXTRACT_FINISHED", "data": { "pkgname": "pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup", "pkgversion": "1.29"}}
{ "type": "INFO_INSTALL_FINISHED", "data": { "pkgname": "pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup", "pkgversion": "1.29", "message": ""}}

Note: This was against a brand new install of today's build of full memstick i386 (2015-10-27T02:26). Same behaviour exhibited.

[PantsManUK]

bump

[Steve_B]

Thanks for that. The problem is that for some reason your system is reporting that 9 steps of 0 required have been completed:

{ "type": "INFO_PROGRESS_TICK", "data": { "current": 9, "total" : 0}}

and the code is looking for $current == $total to call it a success.

We will investigate.

[Steve_B]

Would you please run:  "pkg clean -ay" from the command line to clear the package cache?

[PantsManUK]

@Steve_B:

Would you please run:  "pkg clean -ay" from the command line to clear the package cache?

Done.

[Steve_B]

Did it help?

We think this may be a bug in the pkg system. I have just made a change to pkg_mgr_install.php to accommodate it.

Would you please test before and after syncing?

[PantsManUK]

Oops. Should have said - no, same behaviour after cleaning the cache. Will grab the updated php file and try again.

[PantsManUK]

Assuming you mean commit 3985bb3 in github, that does make it report success. Thnx.

[Solved]

[Steve_B]

Cool. Thank you for testing.

We have passed the "pkg" bug report upstream.