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    ERROR: It was not possible to identify which pfSense kernel is installed

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    • P
      PiBa
      last edited by

      Hm but the command 'pkg upgrade' itself completed correctly right, what was the one that failed.? I dont have those -journal and -wal files myself either might be normal..

      Was the failure with installing the pfsense package parts? Can you try?:

      truss -o /root/truss_pkg_install.log pkg install pfSense pfSense-base pfSense-default-config pfSense-kernel-pfSense pfSense-rc pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade
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        hda
        last edited by

        After 2min, aborted. 16MB file.

        
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/root: tail -40 truss_pkg_install.log
mkdir("/var/cache",0777)                         ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache/pkg",0777)                     ERR#17 'File exists'
statfs("/var/cache/pkg",0x7fffffffd798)          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
mkdir("/var",0777)                               ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache",0777)                         ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache/pkg",0777)                     ERR#17 'File exists'
statfs("/var/cache/pkg",0x7fffffffd798)          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
mkdir("/var",0777)                               ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache",0777)                         ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache/pkg",0777)                     ERR#17 'File exists'
statfs("/var/cache/pkg",0x7fffffffd798)          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
mkdir("/var",0777)                               ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache",0777)                         ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache/pkg",0777)                     ERR#17 'File exists'
statfs("/var/cache/pkg",0x7fffffffd798)          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
mkdir("/var",0777)                               ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache",0777)                         ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache/pkg",0777)                     ERR#17 'File exists'
statfs("/var/cache/pkg",0x7fffffffd798)          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
mkdir("/var",0777)                               ERR#17 'File exists'
mkdir("/var/cache",0777)                         ERR#17 'File exists'
SIGNAL 2 (SIGINT)
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ SIGINT },0x0)          = 0 (0x0)
write(2,"pkg: ",5)                               = 5 (0x5)
write(2,"\nsignal received, cleaning up",29)     = 29 (0x1d)
write(2,"\n",1)                                  = 1 (0x1)
unlink("pÙÿÿ")                          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
rename("pÙÿÿ-pkgtemp","pÙÿÿ")          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ-journal")                  ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ")                          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
rename("pÙÿÿ-pkgtemp","pÙÿÿ")          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ-journal")                  ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ")                          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
rename("pÙÿÿ-pkgtemp","pÙÿÿ")          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ-journal")                  ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ")                          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
rename("pÙÿÿ-pkgtemp","pÙÿÿ")          ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
unlink("pÙÿÿ-journal")                  ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
exit(0x1)
process exit, rval = 1
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/root:

        Circular ?

        
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/var/cache: ls -l
total 1
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Jan 16 16:51 pkg -> ../../root/var/cache/pkg
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/var/cache:
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          PiBa
          last edited by

          So the "SIGNAL 2 (SIGINT)" is probably from you pressing Ctrl+C, and before that its looping over the same 4 commands..
          What happens right before it enters that 'loop'?
          Can you check if /var/cache/pkg/ exists, and all files seem 'valid' no 0 byte files or something? Or just throw the whole pkg folder in there away or rename it.?.

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            PiBa
            last edited by

            Can you disable memory disks if you have those enabled? For me on a regular full install it isn't a 'linked' folder..

            [2.4.0-BETA][root@pfSe.localdomain]/var/cache: ls -l
total 105
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   16 Jan 18 22:44 pkg
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            • H
              hda
              last edited by

              I do not have RAM-disk enabled.

              
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/: find / -name pkg
/var/cache/pkg
/var/db/pkg
/var/db/pkg/pkg
/etc/pkg
/usr/share/keys/pkg
/usr/local/pkg
/usr/local/sbin/pkg
/usr/local/etc/pkg
/usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg
/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg
/usr/sbin/pkg

              And this is all that is there for "db pkg":

              
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/: ls -l /var/db/pkg/pkg
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jan 16 16:51 /var/db/pkg/pkg -> ../../root/var/db/pkg
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/: ls -l /var/db/pkg/
total 483
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  109568 Jan 18 22:25 local.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     246 Jan 18 21:59 pfSense-core.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     246 Jan 18 16:55 pfSense.meta
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      21 Jan 16 16:51 pkg -> ../../root/var/db/pkg
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   70656 Jan 18 22:26 repo-pfSense-core.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  832512 Jan 18 22:26 repo-pfSense.sqlite
[2.4.0-BETA][root@apu2b2.localdomain]/:
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                PiBa
                last edited by

                My vote go's to getting rid of those linked pkg folders..
                Mine:

                [2.4.0-BETA][root@pfSe.localdomain]/var/cache: ls -l /var/db/pkg
total 3667
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  6195200 Jan 18 22:44 local.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      246 Jan 18 21:59 pfSense-core.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      246 Jan 18 16:55 pfSense.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    70656 Jan 18 22:42 repo-pfSense-core.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   832512 Jan 18 22:42 repo-pfSense.sqlite

[2.4.0-BETA][root@pfSe.localdomain]/var/cache: ls -l
total 105
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   16 Jan 18 22:44 pkg
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  474 Jan 18 19:43 pkg X

[2.4.0-BETA][root@pfSe.localdomain]/var/cache:

                The place that "pkg -> ../../root/var/db/pkg" points to doesnt seem to exist.. I would try and delete it. And also from /var/cache/
                pkg should recreate the cache folder itself when it downloads new stuff..

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                  hda
                  last edited by

                  Beautyfull !
                  Yes, the removal of the link-files freed up the update & recreation processes.
                  Thanks PiBa.

                  
...
pfSense 2.4.0-BETA amd64 Wed Jan 18 14:23:45 CST 2017
Bootup complete

FreeBSD/amd64 (apu2b2.localdomain) (ttyu0)

*** Welcome to pfSense 2.4.0-BETA (amd64) on apu2b2 ***
...

                  :) :) :)

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                  • A
                    athurdent
                    last edited by

                    Just freshly installed pfSense-CE-2.4.0-BETA-amd64-20170119-1521.iso on a KVM.

                    Same error:

                    pkg: No package(s) matching pfSense-kernel-*

                    Issuing

                    pkg install pfSense pfSense-base pfSense-default-config pfSense-kernel-pfSense pfSense-rc pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade

                    seems to have fixed it.

                    Maybe related to changes introduced in Bug #7086?

                    zfs list
NAME                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zroot                592M  45.7G    96K  /zroot
zroot/ROOT           455M  45.7G    96K  none
zroot/ROOT/default   454M  45.7G   454M  /
zroot/tmp            336K  45.7G   336K  /tmp
zroot/var            137M  45.7G   137M  /var
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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      Does this still happen on a current snapshot?

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                      • A
                        athurdent
                        last edited by

                        Nope, Renato fixed it. I also reinstalled my primary system today, all fine.

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