pkg wants to upgrade pfSense-upgrade, should I do it?

[zwoop]

Hi

I had an incident, where my Netgate (pfsense 2.4.3-RELEASE-p1) got bricked, and I ended up having to do a hard reset. Upon reconfiguring the system, I got an error from the package manager UI saying that the versions were out of sync.

If I login to the box, and run "pkg upgrade", I get the following:

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
pfSense-upgrade: 0.45 -> 0.49 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 1

Should I let it do this? Why exactly isn't the UI upgrading this? Am I really expected to run the pkg upgrade myself? :-).

Thanks!

[zwoop]

Also, this is the error I get from the GUI when I try to install a package now after the reset. It's likely I did not have WAN access when I did the hard reset, so unclear what state I'm in...

[Gertjan]

Hi,

What does it show here :

Is your FreeBSD kernel up to date ?

[zwoop]

@gertjan The kernel installed says:

FreeBSD yggdrasil 10.3-RELEASE-p19 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p19 #1 76a12c4e6(RELENG_2_3_4): Thu Jun 1 09:22:27 CDT 2017 root@factory23-amd64-builder:/builder/factory-234/tmp/obj/builder/factory-234/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense amd64

The GUI says:

[jimp]

Somehow your kernel is from 2.3.x and the rest (maybe?) is from 2.4.x.

You should probably reinstall it from scratch, or, failing that, at least force an upgrade of everything:

pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade; pkg-static upgrade -f

[zwoop]

@jimp said in pkg wants to upgrade pfSense-upgrade, should I do it?:

pkg-static clean -ay

Ok, thanks. So it downgraded some package(s) when I did the hard reset ? Is the above pkg updates safe to do, in that it should preserve all configurations etc.? I had a hell of a time recovering after I 'bricked' the installation while trying to enable ntopng :-/.

Thanks!

-- leif

[jimp]

I would take a backup before you do anything else. The system is in a broken state right now so anything you do is likely to help. Your choices are really:

1. The pkg commands above to force everything to update
2. Reinstall from a freshly downloaded image and restore your configuration

If anything offered a "downgrade" while trying the first step it's possible you were not pointed at the correct repository for updates. Make sure that under System > Update it is set to use the latest stable update branch.

[zwoop]

@jimp Cool, thanks. I'll give it a shot over the weekend, hopefully it'll go ok :).

Thanks again!

-- Leif