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    Version 2.3.3_1 is available

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • D Offline
      doktornotor Banned
      last edited by

      The kernel package is locked normally on purpose (and only unlocked on upgrades). Dunno what makes the package manager think it's missing, it sure like hell wouldn't boot without kernel. Sigh…

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      • K Offline
        kobzar
        last edited by

        WG x750e updated from WEB without any troubles.

        WatchGuard x750e + 2GB + SATA-IDE 320GB

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          segfooled
          last edited by

          @doktornotor:

          The kernel package is locked normally on purpose (and only unlocked on upgrades). Dunno what makes the package manager think it's missing, it sure like hell wouldn't boot without kernel. Sigh…

          Corrected above - at the console it didn't say missing kernel but something along the lines of wasn't updated last time because locked. Then it loaded the kernel package and updated it ok.
          Also added the line from the initial updater that apparently pointed to the issue on the first run "locked … may not be modified".

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            empbilly
            last edited by

            Here is version 2.3.3-RELEASE-p1 (amd64), but it showed FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p16. Via the command line I made a```
            pfSense-upgrade -d

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              bheinsius
              last edited by

              This doesn't look like a very good upgrade.
              I upgraded from 2.3.2.
              DNS Forwarder could not find local hostnames for dhcp-issued ip addresses anymore.
              Port forwarding did not work anymore (probably because of the dns problem).
              I'm no firewall expert so I reverted to my 2.3.2 slice and all is ok again.

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              • jimpJ Offline
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                @bheinsius:

                This doesn't look like a very good upgrade.
                I upgraded from 2.3.2.
                DNS Forwarder could not find local hostnames for dhcp-issued ip addresses anymore.
                Port forwarding did not work anymore (probably because of the dns problem).
                I'm no firewall expert so I reverted to my 2.3.2 slice and all is ok again.

                If your DNS failed to work after the upgrade, it wasn't a proper DNS configuration to start with.
                https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6064

                Setting an appropriate search domain for the client will fix it in most cases.

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                  bheinsius
                  last edited by

                  I had these messages in the pfsense log:

                  filterdns failed to resolve host xxxx will retry later again.

                  search domain in client /etc/resolv.conf is fine:

                  bheinsius@kemphaan:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

                  Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf( 8 )

                  #    DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND – YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
                  nameserver 10.0.0.1
                  search internal.abc.nl
                  bheinsius@kemphaan:~$

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                  • jimpJ Offline
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    Then it doesn't match the domain on the firewall used/assumed for the hostnames. If it did, the short names would still resolve.

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                      bheinsius
                      last edited by

                      as i said before i'm no firewall expert.
                      can you help me where i may be missing this setting?

                      has dns in pfsense changed from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 causing this problem to surface in 2.3.3 and not in 2.3.2?

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                      • jimpJ Offline
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Help would be a topic for a different thread. And if you read the release notes for 2.3.3 you'll find the answer about the changes.

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                          bheinsius
                          last edited by

                          ok, thank you.

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                            fredfox_uk
                            last edited by

                            Updated last night through the GUI as always, but got a failed message from the GUI. The messages said packages updated but kernel failed due to locked Kernel.

                            SSH and and ran a shell and used pfSense-upgrade -d.

                            Everything seems to be working ok.

                            Is there anything that I did wrong? I've never seen the kernel package being locked.

                            Here's the output :-

                            
                            >>> Updating repositories metadata...
                            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.
                            >>> Unlocking package pfSense-kernel-pfSense...
                            Unlocking pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3.3
                            The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
                            
                            Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
                                    pfSense-kernel-pfSense: 2.3.3 -> 2.3.3_1 [pfSense-core]
                            
                            Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
                            
                            15 MiB to be downloaded.
                            
                            **** WARNING ****
                            Reboot will be required!!
                            Proceed with upgrade? (y/N) y
                            >>> Downloading upgrade packages...
                            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.
                            Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): . done
                            Processing candidates (1 candidates): . done
                            The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
                            
                            Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
                                    pfSense-kernel-pfSense: 2.3.3 -> 2.3.3_1 [pfSense-core]
                            
                            Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
                            
                            15 MiB to be downloaded.
                            Fetching pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3.3_1.txz: .......... done
                            Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
                            >>> Upgrading pfSense kernel...
                            Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
                            The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
                            
                            Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
                                    pfSense-kernel-pfSense: 2.3.3 -> 2.3.3_1 [pfSense-core]
                            
                            Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
                            [1/1] Upgrading pfSense-kernel-pfSense from 2.3.3 to 2.3.3_1...
                            [1/1] Extracting pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3.3_1: .......... done
                            ===> Keeping a copy of current kernel in /boot/kernel.old
                            Upgrade is complete.  Rebooting in 10 seconds.
                            
                            Broadcast Message from admin@pfSense.paulgh.me.uk
                                    (/dev/pts/0) at 23:44 GMT...
                            
                            Upgrade is complete.  Rebooting in 10 seconds.
                            
                            >>> Locking package pfSense-kernel-pfSense...
                            Locking pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3.3_1
                            
                            
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                              mifronte
                              last edited by

                              I upgraded via the web GUI dashboard and also received the update failed message in my browser.  However, the router rebooted itself before I can get to the console and came up with the new update and all seems fine.

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                              2.8.0 (amd64)

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                                phil.davis
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                                @mifronte:

                                I upgraded via the web GUI dashboard and also received the update failed message in my browser.  However, the router rebooted itself before I can get to the console and came up with the new update and all seems fine.

                                Note for readers: This is the "normal" behavior. The webGUI code that "monitors" how the upgrade is progressing (showing the log messages coming out…) is a bit too stupid and sometimes gets the idea that something in the upgrade output indicates that the upgrade has failed. But actually the upgrade process is happily detached and running in the background. Eventually the upgrade finishes its processing and kicks off a reboot.

                                So don't be in a panic when that happens - make yourself a cup of coffee, get a command line somewhere and run "top" to see that some interesting looking things are running, be happy when it reboots.

                                And yes, the webGUI needs to be made smarter at "guessing" if the upgrade failed.

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                                  AWeidner
                                  last edited by

                                  @phil.davis:

                                  Note for readers: This is the "normal" behavior. The webGUI code that "monitors" how the upgrade is progressing (showing the log messages coming out…) is a bit too stupid and sometimes gets the idea that something in the upgrade output indicates that the upgrade has failed. But actually the upgrade process is happily detached and running in the background. Eventually the upgrade finishes its processing and kicks off a reboot.

                                  So don't be in a panic when that happens - make yourself a cup of coffee, get a command line somewhere and run "top" to see that some interesting looking things are running, be happy when it reboots.

                                  And yes, the webGUI needs to be made smarter at "guessing" if the upgrade failed.

                                  Uhm, that seems not always to be the case. Mine sat for three hours at step 6 of 7 (see my post #7), top showed nothing interesting and i rebooted after getting impatient. Also several users from the site where the updated pfSense box is installed, complained about "not having internet", due to squid being stopped during the unfinished update process.

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                                    kpa
                                    last edited by

                                    The issue seems to be that the update/upgrade process is launched asynchronously from the GUI and the only monitoring the GUI does is the update log by parsing it in an ad-hoc manner and it doesn't pay any attention the status codes returned by the various sub-operations of the update/upgrade.

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                                      AWeidner
                                      last edited by

                                      @kpa:

                                      The issue seems to be that the update/upgrade process is launched asynchronously from the GUI and the only monitoring the GUI does is the update log by parsing it in an ad-hoc manner and it doesn't pay any attention the status codes returned by the various sub-operations of the update/upgrade.

                                      Then maybe there should be an advice, at least for this update, to only use the console based updater until the issue is resolved  ???
                                      (no criticism, just asking).

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                                        Kamen
                                        last edited by

                                        Initiated the update (from 2.3.3) via WebGUI and it gave me the failure message BUT it also stopped working (Internet, etc.) I reset the box and no service after that, either. I could not wait hours, so I reverted to my backup router. There is no monitor/keyboard on the pfSense computer, so I'll see when I can get to it.
                                        Just FYI, but very disappointing.
                                        Kamen

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                                          zizwiz
                                          last edited by

                                          My GUI upgrade hung.  System still running 2.3.2, GUI showing "unable to check for updates.

                                          ssh update doesn't work:

                                          pkg -v
                                          1.9.4

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

                                          Updating repositories metadata…
                                          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.
                                          ERROR: Unable to compare version of pfSense-repo

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                                          • jimpJ Offline
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            @zizwiz:

                                            My GUI upgrade hung.  System still running 2.3.2, GUI showing "unable to check for updates.

                                            ssh update doesn't work:

                                            pkg -v
                                            1.9.4

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

                                            Updating repositories metadata…
                                            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.
                                            ERROR: Unable to compare version of pfSense-repo

                                            That looks like you have some major problem with your local pkg data. Please start a new thread, it is not related to this update.

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