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    Upgrade to 2.4.3_1 Fails at First Attempt

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      DeltaOne
      last edited by

      Same thing here.  The page reported the upgrade had failed.  We waited about two minutes and the page refreshed and we logged in.  The upgrade had worked after all.

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        mrsunfire
        last edited by

        Exact same "problem" here! First "Update failed" but a few moments later pfSense rebootet and update was installed.

        Netgate 6100 MAX

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          strangegopher
          last edited by

          Same here, but I went back and clicked on update again and it worked.

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            jkline
            last edited by

            Ditto.  Had to click update a second time. (Netgate SG-4860)

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              revengineer
              last edited by

              Does upgrade via console succeeds the first time around?

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                vamdolly
                last edited by

                This also happened it said failed going from 2.4.3 - 2.4.3-RELEASE-p1 on the thried line but restarted and said i was on it does this mean it worked or somthing faild to install but the update is there? if the later anyway to get it to redownload and aply the same update just incase.

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  It upgraded OK if it rebooted.

                  Bug report opened: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8519

                  Steve

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                    Jeremy11one
                    last edited by

                    I had the same error on my boxes too.  I noticed this line in the system log around the time I did the first update:

                    pkg-static: pfSense-upgrade upgraded: 0.42 -> 0.44 
                    

                    It looks like it's doing some minor update to "pfSense-upgrade" the first time.

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                      kpa
                      last edited by

                      Do a console upgrade (option 13 in the menu) if it's an option for you, it will most likely work a lot better than the WebGUI one. The WebGUI upgrade still seems to suffer from the same problem as it did a while ago which is that it gets disconnected from the real upgrade run and reports a failure when the upgrade is actually running successfully in the background.

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                        tman222
                        last edited by

                        I waited a day on the upgrade after seeing this thread yesterday afternoon, and just decided to attempt the upgrade to see what would happen.  Thankfully, no problems to report here:  Upgrade went smoothly (success), system rebooted right away and came up back after couple minutes with 2.4.3_1 loaded.

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                          Bent82
                          last edited by

                          I had the same problem.  I tried again, and it didn't give me a failure message, but it appeared to freeze at step 2 of 6, I think one of the extraction steps.  After about 15 minutes, I gave up and went back to the main page, it still said I was on 2.4.3, and that the update was available to 2.4.3_1, but the uptime was only 10 minutes, indicating it had rebooted.  But when I click on the update again, it tells me I am up to date.  Any idea how to make the main page know I am up to date and stop offering me the update?

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                            gsmornot
                            last edited by

                            @kpa:

                            Do a console upgrade (option 13 in the menu) if it's an option for you, it will most likely work a lot better than the WebGUI one. The WebGUI upgrade still seems to suffer from the same problem as it did a while ago which is that it gets disconnected from the real upgrade run and reports a failure when the upgrade is actually running successfully in the background.

                            This is what I did. I have come to prefer the console update because you get a status as it completes the steps. Better than just getting a timer.

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                              bingo600
                              last edited by

                              Experienced the same w. GUI update.
                              Seems to hang in updating (Perl i think) - was the latest the GUI showed

                              Got a mail about reboot was complete

                              22:08:32 Bootup complete

                              But it still showed that 2.4.3_P1 was an available update.

                              I did another upgrade via Console

                              22:15:14 Bootup complete

                              And after that , it showed i was "Using the latest 2.4.3_P1"

                              Edit: I came from 2.4.3

                              /Bingo

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                              pfSense+ 23.05.1 (ZFS)

                              QOTOM-Q355G4 Quad Lan.
                              CPU  : Core i5 5250U, Ram : 8GB Kingston DDR3LV 1600
                              LAN  : 4 x Intel 211, Disk  : 240G SAMSUNG MZ7L3240HCHQ SSD

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                                bingo600
                                last edited by

                                Just upgraded my 2'nd Box via Console.

                                All went well at first attempt  :)

                                /Bingo

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                                CPU  : Core i5 5250U, Ram : 8GB Kingston DDR3LV 1600
                                LAN  : 4 x Intel 211, Disk  : 240G SAMSUNG MZ7L3240HCHQ SSD

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                                  Bent82
                                  last edited by

                                  Rerunning the update from the console managed to get the box to 2.4.3_1, and it is no longer saying an update is available but saying it's up to date when you go to install it.

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                                    Darkk
                                    last edited by

                                    Same thing happened to me.  It failed on the first attempt.  After it rebooted I tried again.  It went through the updates, rebooted and then it's all ok.  Odd.

                                    Darkk

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