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    Issues updating from 2.3-RC (or older 2.3 installs) to 2.3-RELEASE

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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      @waves:

      Please, help me to restore a full back-up that i made before "upgrading" to 2.3. My snort rules doesn't work anymore and i have the feeling that a bunch of other things are broken now with this new 2.3 release.

      I have the back-up stored on /root  ( pfSense-full-backup-20160413-1446.tgz). How can i invoke it from the terminal?  In /etc i can't find any rc.restore full back-up. On the forum i can't find any other info about this.  Thank you in advance.

      That feature is not supported on pfSense 2.3. Your safest path is to reinstall the older version directly. Otherwise you'll end up with a mix of things all over the filesystem (which was one of many reasons that feature was removed…)

      Better still would be to work and get snort working on 2.3. The package maintainer is very active in the IDS/IPS board here under packages. Post there for snort help, it's probably not a difficult fix.

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        serialdie
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        @jimp:

        @serialdie:

        You guys made a major poop on this one.

        I don't  know about that, at this point 2.3.1 is ~= 2.3-REL (aside from a few extra fixes, so, bonus). It didn't brick anything, things still work, etc. Inconvenient, sure, but not FUBAR.

        @serialdie:

        By following this some of us some how ended up on the dev even though we had the "Follow 2.3 snapshots and move automatically to -RELEASE (Default)" set.
        How can we fix this? Like others here I try to force an update to 2.3-RELEASE but I cant cause I am on a devel version.
        There has to be a fix to this without having to re-install.

        There is, I was able to replicate it once yesterday. I'm working on a procedure to switch back. It's not terribly difficult, but I need to be able to repeat it reliably.

        Thank you for your fast reply jimp.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          I just edited a fix into the first post for people who ended up on 2.3.1 or otherwise have a message saying they're on a version newer than the release. Should fix it all up.

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            waves
            last edited by

            That feature is not supported on pfSense 2.3. Your safest path is to reinstall the older version directly. Otherwise you'll end up with a mix of things all over the filesystem (which was one of many reasons that feature was removed…)

            Better still would be to work and get snort working on 2.3. The package maintainer is very active in the IDS/IPS board here under packages. Post there for snort help, it's probably not a difficult fix.

            This is very bad news…  :(  I will try to install the older version and restore config.xml.  I have a post in IDS as well, but i'm in a production enviroment and...  You get my point.  Thank you for your reply.

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              serialdie
              last edited by

              @waves:

              That feature is not supported on pfSense 2.3. Your safest path is to reinstall the older version directly. Otherwise you'll end up with a mix of things all over the filesystem (which was one of many reasons that feature was removed…)

              Better still would be to work and get snort working on 2.3. The package maintainer is very active in the IDS/IPS board here under packages. Post there for snort help, it's probably not a difficult fix.

              This is very bad news…  :(  I will try to install the older version and restore config.xml.  I have a post in IDS as well, but i'm in a production enviroment and...  You get my point.  Thank you for your reply.

              Ouch!
              2.3 is too new for production, Hence why I am using it at home/dev for now. Good luck.

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                serialdie
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                @jimp,

                Thanks for the update… so far so good.

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                  christian.arminio
                  last edited by

                  Hello,

                  after update I've many problems and web gui shows always this message :

                  pfSense is booting, then packages will be reinstalled in the background.
                  Do not make changes in the GUI until this is complete.
                  

                  I've tried the Jimp's guide at first post but it doesn't work :

                  
                  pkg update -f
                  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
                  fetch: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/RELENG_2_3_0/src/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/pkg.pfsense.org.20160406: Network is unreachable
                  

                  Any help is very appreciated .
                  Best regards

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                    MyKroFt
                    last edited by

                    have done everything is post #1 am still stuck….

                    2.3-RELEASE (amd64)
                    built on Mon Apr 11 18:10:34 CDT 2016
                    FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE
                    
                    The system is on a later version than
                    the official release.
                    

                    Myk

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                      Gram
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                      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
                      
                      

                      … worked for me. Thanks!

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                        wirerogue
                        last edited by

                        @jimp:

                        I just edited a fix into the first post for people who ended up on 2.3.1 or otherwise have a message saying they're on a version newer than the release. Should fix it all up.

                        worked for me. you da man!!!

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                          YonNomNom
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                          My pfsense box cant access the internet unless it is using a proxy (the proxy is separate to this instance of pfsense). It managed to update but now it is stuck attempting to download package metadata :(

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                            christian.arminio
                            last edited by

                            @YonNomNom:

                            My pfsense box cant access the internet unless it is using a proxy (the proxy is separate to this instance of pfsense). It managed to update but now it is stuck attempting to download package metadata :(

                            Oh yes,

                            my problem is the same…. So now I know because I can't update my catalogue......
                            But how fix this issue ??

                            EDIT

                            Fixed…. After the upgrade to the new version no default gateway was selected by pfsense... So no route to Internet....

                            System_Routing_Gateways_Edit
                            Select This will select the above gateway as the default gateway
                            

                            Super Regards

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              @christian.arminio:

                              after update I've many problems and web gui shows always this message :

                              pfSense is booting, then packages will be reinstalled in the background.
                              Do not make changes in the GUI until this is complete.
                              

                              I've tried the Jimp's guide at first post but it doesn't work :

                              Diag > Backup/Restore, click the button to reset the package lock.

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                For those with other unrelated issues like proxies/gateways, please start new threads. This thread is only for the specific style of issues stated in the original post, thanks.

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                                  Guest
                                  last edited by

                                  @wirerogue:

                                  @jimp:

                                  I just edited a fix into the first post for people who ended up on 2.3.1 or otherwise have a message saying they're on a version newer than the release. Should fix it all up.

                                  worked for me. you da man!!!

                                  Worked for me too…

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                                    lrosenman
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                                    @marjohh:

                                    @wirerogue:

                                    @jimp:

                                    I just edited a fix into the first post for people who ended up on 2.3.1 or otherwise have a message saying they're on a version newer than the release. Should fix it all up.

                                    worked for me. you da man!!!

                                    Worked for me too…

                                    Worked for me as well…  THANK YOU!

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                                      fr0t
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi all,

                                      Just quick question… where if ntopng package gone? I cant see it in 'Available packages' tab. I did use it a lot and now I am stuck :/

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                                        tomaswaldow
                                        last edited by

                                        @fr0t:

                                        Hi all,

                                        Just quick question… where if ntopng package gone? I cant see it in 'Available packages' tab. I did use it a lot and now I am stuck :/

                                        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.3_Removed_Packages

                                        Tomas @ 2W Consultoria

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                                          edmund
                                          last edited by

                                          pfSense is booting, then packages will be reinstalled in the background.
                                          Do not make changes in the GUI until this is complete.
                                          

                                          I had this problem a while back with my nano system at home earlier this year.  I'd suggest looking through your config.xml file and see it there are any duplicate sections, mine had two sections setting up the local DHCP server on different subnets and once I deleted the bad one everything worked fine.

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                                            brianc69
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                                            I was on 2.3.1.xxxx and noticed this morning it was unable to check for updates and the packages section shows no packages installed. I went to diagnostics/command prompt and tried pkg upgrade -f and got:

                                            Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue…
                                            pfSense-core repository is up-to-date.
                                            Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                                            pfSense repository is up-to-date.
                                            All repositories are up-to-date.
                                            New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
                                            The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

                                            Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
                                            pkg: 1.7.2 -> 1.7.2_1 [pfSense]

                                            2 MiB to be downloaded.

                                            Proceed with this action? [y/N]:

                                            How does one and the y/N question??? Is this even the answer to my problem?

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