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    Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.

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      albgen
      last edited by albgen

      @chrismacmahon said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

      pkg search php

      puttyFluid.zip

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        Reinstall from 2.4.4-p3 installation media. Choose "recover config.xml" at the first screen of the installer, then proceed to install again.

        There are ways to get it back from the state you are stuck in but it's a lot less work to reinstall, if you can.

        All of the other procedures are covered at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-troubleshooting.html

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          ady2
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          Absolutely same issue here, upgraded to 2.4.4p3 from UI on 05/23 and today, 05/25 my pfsense has same issues, no DHCP on any network card, pfsense is not responsive except the shell terminal option, same errors PHP startup. Unable to load dynamic library ...

          Is this hardware failure or what?

          Will try to reinstall, and apply the restore from backup.

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            albgen @ady2
            last edited by

            @ady2 i dont think is a hardware fault. Seems like this upgarde is not handling some certain cases and we fall in this one.
            What i dont like is that how this problem can appear after 2 days and not right after the upgrade.
            Next time i will upgrade after 1 month of a "stable release"..

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            • GertjanG
              Gertjan @albgen
              last edited by

              @albgen said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

              f sombeody wants the VM image(hyper-V) for this issue i can provide it

              As here https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143656/weird-2-4-4_3-issues/7

              With the /usr/local/lib/php/20131226/ folder still in place (old PHP libs) pfSense is pretty brain-dead.

              Didn't saw this myself, all upgrades to p3 went fine - including a pfSense running under Hyper-V @home

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              • JeGrJ
                JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator
                last edited by

                To any who encounters that:

                • are you able to get to console shell (#8 in menu) as that won't/shouldn't trigger a PHP problem?
                • if so, are you able to go to /usr/local/lib/php and check (ls -la) what folder there is?
                • Assuming its some folder like 20170716 (or something 2017...) can you run
                  • cd /usr/local/lib/php
                  • ln -s 20170718 20131226
                  • ls -la (again) and verify there is now a 2013xxxx folder (like the errors claim not to be)
                  • Ctrl + d (so the console menu should reappear)

                So afterwards

                • Is the console menu now running properly again?
                • can you now trigger #13 again (update from console)
                • does it update anything?

                Greets

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                  albgen @JeGr
                  last edited by albgen

                  @JeGr The console reappeard and it started working. The first thing i did was a reboot and than it started the config again...
                  i guess this is because the network is not the same but i cannot create the same network in the lab.
                  pf1.png pf2 reinstall.png

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                  • JeGrJ
                    JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Not bad :)
                    If the console is working with the Symlink workaround, could you run the "update" menu point or manually run pkg update and pkg upgrade afterwards if there are missing updates etc. to indicate a broken update at some point?

                    Thanks!

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                      albgen
                      last edited by

                      pkg not found...pkg not found.png

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Use pkg-static instead of pkg.

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                          albgen @jimp
                          last edited by

                          @jimp
                          seems ok now. the question is why this happened and also in the future could we have the same issue?
                          does it worth it to report as an issue?

                          pkg-static.png

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            Without knowing more about why it happened, it's impossible to say.

                            If you still get that error when you use pkg then it looks like you now have a partial 2.5.0 system. Maybe you are set to track developer snapshots now?

                            Go into the update settings and make sure you are set to stable updates, and then run this:

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

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                              albgen @jimp
                              last edited by albgen

                              @jimp
                              never tried a snapshot. Only current release
                              pf1.png

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                                albgen
                                last edited by albgen

                                i re-run the following pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade
                                and i got
                                second run1.png second run2.png

                                seems there is a new version 2.4.4 p4 but from the UI i don't see this...

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                                  Gertjan @albgen
                                  last edited by Gertjan

                                  Hi,

                                  I tried to find this "libssl.so.111" on my pfSense 2.4.4-p3 : I could not find it .....

                                  The pfSense-repo-2.4.4._4.txz file ends with _4, true, looks suspicious.
                                  ( just a packages with the 2 repo source information files )

                                  But, to be sure what you install, check these :
                                  pfSense-2.4.4_3.txz
                                  and
                                  pfSense-base-2.4.4_3.txz

                                  Thee 2 "files" contain the major part of pfSense "base".

                                  Conclusion : you should be ok now : 2.4.4-p3.

                                  No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                  Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @Gertjan
                                    last edited by

                                    @Gertjan said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

                                    I tried to find this "libssl.so.111" on my pfSense 2.4.4-p3 : I could not find it ....

                                    Because it's from OpenSSL 1.1.1 which is on pfSense 2.5.0, which you'll only get if your update URL is set to track snapshots :-)

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                                      Gertjan @jimp
                                      last edited by

                                      @jimp said in Upgraded to 2.4.4_3 - after 2 days router not working anymore.:

                                      if your update URL is set to track snapshots

                                      Ah, my bad. I understood that the OP wanted to install the latest stable = 2.4.4-p3, not de dev version (future 2.5.0).

                                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        That appears to be the original intent, but somewhere along the way they had to have set it to track snapshots.

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                                        • JeGrJ
                                          JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Which would explain the broken update (path) and problems with PHP and library versions

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                                            albgen
                                            last edited by

                                            it could be because i remember sometimes, i change the update url to the latest development 2.5 just to check the version?
                                            Never installed it though

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