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      Keyser Soze
      last edited by

      The solution posted in the following thread worked for me when I had this problem, and turning the ram disk off and rebooting made no difference.

      https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=106788

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        scubarob
        last edited by

        I am not using the RAMDISK option and still have this update issue.
        I have been updating via the Console.
        The Version Number/Built ON date has not been changing. It still shows  2.3-RC (i386)
        built on Tue Apr 05 20:24:50 CDT 2016
        FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE

        I have tried several different DNS servers. All behave the same

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          If it says "unable to check for updates", look at this output:

          pkg info -x pfSense
          

          If you do not see pfSense-base, run:

          pkg install pfSense-base
          

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            scubarob
            last edited by

            That was the solution - Thanks
            All working well now.

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              wirerogue
              last edited by

              @jimp:

              If it says "unable to check for updates", look at this output:

              pkg info -x pfSense
              

              If you do not see pfSense-base, run:

              pkg install pfSense-base
              

              that worked for me too but it seems i've overshot the mark.

              now on 2.3.1-DEVELOPMENT.

              my update settings were set to automatically move to release.

              is there any easy way to go back?

              no big deal if not. just wanted to see the 2.3 release on the dash board.

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                graymattr
                last edited by

                Installing pfSense-base worked here as well (thank you!!!), and now I am in the same state as wireogue (on dev build 2.3.1.a.20160412.1222).

                Is there a way to get back on the release train without a full reinstall?

                Many thanks, and congratulations on getting a great release out the door!

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                  wirerogue
                  last edited by

                  i think the real question is… why are you guys still working?

                  shouldn't you take at least a week off to celebrate the 2.3 release? get some cocaine and hookers play some video games and watch porn?

                  you're setting the bar kinda high. making the rest of us look bad.

                  just sayin'.

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                    iam
                    last edited by

                    @jimp:

                    If it says "unable to check for updates", look at this output:

                    pkg info -x pfSense
                    

                    If you do not see pfSense-base, run:

                    pkg install pfSense-base
                    

                    Should I do this also on the nanobad platform?

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                      skywise
                      last edited by

                      I'm in the same boat, can't update from 2.3 RC (2.3.r.20160406.0534) to 2.3 Release.

                      If I select "Keep following 2.3 dev snapshots"  I can update past 2.3 Release. (2.3.1.a.20160412.1222 as of tis morning)
                      If I select "follow 2.3 snaps and move to release (default)"  I get errors.

                      I'm guessing that I have no IPV6 or other network issues since the stay dev option works.

                      Any ideas?

                      Can I just DL 2.3 Release manually and do an upgrade that way?

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        If you were on an RC or earlier, it's normal for it to offer 2.3.1.a. When you choose to upgrade, it will see -RELEASE and use that instead. There's an open ticket to fix that for the next version.

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                          dougf4nnie
                          last edited by

                          I did a clean install and came across as the same problem "Unable to Check For Updates":

                          I had to install the sarg manually, but before you install, it was necessary to update the package pkg-1.6.2 for pkg-1.7.2. After I upgraded this package the message "Unable to Check For Updates" appeared (even in a clean installation).

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                            skywise
                            last edited by

                            Clean 2.3 Release install?
                            If you go to update settings and select dev path, does it give you an option to update to 2.3.1?

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                              djamp42
                              last edited by

                              I had to do the following commands to get mine to work.

                              fetch -qo /usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/RELENG_2_3_0/src/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/pkg.pfsense.org.20160406
                              
                              pkg update
                              
                              pkg install pfSense-base
                              
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                                skywise
                                last edited by

                                Ok, the fetch worked for me, I'm up at 2.3 Release now.

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                                  horse2370
                                  last edited by

                                  I upgraded my production pfSense and ran into the same problem and was unable to access the System>Update as it just froze the GUI.
                                  For me the issue is I am running IPv6, however the Internet WAN IPv6 subnet is not advertised through BGP only my DMZ v6 space.
                                  Switched the pfSense to prefer IPv4 and all is how it was before.

                                  Would be really nice to be able to bind all the internal services to a specific Interface and not have it default to the outbound Interface.
                                  We don't advertise the internal links between our peering point and the DMZ for IPv6.

                                  Anyway, switching to prefer IPv4 solved it for me.

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                                    dlasher
                                    last edited by

                                    Was getting this:

                                    [2.3-RC][admin@pfsense001]/root: pfSense-upgrade -4

                                    Updating repositories metadata…
                                    Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
                                    Repository pfSense-core has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
                                    Fetching meta.txz: . done
                                    pkg: No trusted public keys found
                                    repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
                                    Fetching packagesite.txz: . done
                                    pkg: No trusted public keys found
                                    Unable to update repository pfSense-core
                                    Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                                    Repository pfSense has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
                                    Fetching meta.txz: . done
                                    pkg: No trusted public keys found
                                    repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
                                    Fetching packagesite.txz: .......... done
                                    pkg: No trusted public keys found
                                    Unable to update repository pfSense

                                    Did this from the CLI - then was able to update.

                                    @djamp42:

                                    fetch -qo /usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/RELENG_2_3_0/src/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/pkg.pfsense.org.20160406
                                    
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                                      voxeljorz
                                      last edited by

                                      pkg install pfSense-base <<–- this have just fixed my issue

                                      @iam:

                                      @jimp:

                                      If it says "unable to check for updates", look at this output:

                                      pkg info -x pfSense
                                      

                                      If you do not see pfSense-base, run:

                                      pkg install pfSense-base
                                      

                                      Should I do this also on the nanobad platform?

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                                        KILLZONE
                                        last edited by

                                        @cmb:

                                        @jits:

                                        Nope! Still "unable to check for updates" error, and no way to update manually…nice!

                                        If you're still getting that at this point, you likely have connectivity issues. First guess, the system thinks it has IPv6 connectivity and it doesn't, but could be any number of things. SSH in, option 8, run:

                                        pfSense-upgrade -4
                                        

                                        what's that get you?

                                        There was a problem "unable to check for updates"
                                        Thank you ! "PfSense-upgrade -4" helped!

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                                          blitzkin
                                          last edited by

                                          followed the steps to in shell/console:

                                          pkg install pfSense-base

                                          once installed and went back to gui, and it upgraded from

                                          2.3.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                                          built on Tue May 17 18:46:53 CDT 2016

                                          to

                                          2.3.2-RELEASE (amd64)
                                          built on Tue Jul 19 12:44:43 CDT 2016

                                          and

                                          Version 2.3.3.a.20160801.2222 is available

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                                            matrixit
                                            last edited by

                                            one can also resolve this issue via making following two changes

                                            1. change theme on firewall to default theme of pfSense.
                                            2. Try changing the architecture/type of firewall in update settings (I ran into such issue when I restored x86 config on my x64 firewall after which it was showing no updates available until when I changed its architecture to x64).
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