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      Pringles
      last edited by

      Package Installer is not working right

      all am getting is this Please wait while the update system initializes

      i had a  look in sys logs all am getting is this

      [code<174>Aug 18 20:00:48 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:48 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:52.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:49 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:49 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:53.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:50 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:50 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:54.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:51 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:51 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:55.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:52 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:52 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:56.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:53 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:53 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:57.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:54 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:54 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:58.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:55 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:55 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:00:59.630
      <174>Aug 18 20:00:56 pfsense.localdomain nginx: 10.0.0.28 - - [18/Aug/2017:20:00:56 +0100] "POST /pkg_mgr_install.php HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "https://10.0.0.1/pkg_mgr_install.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36" 10.0.0.1 18/08 20:01:00.630

      Thanks  Pringles.

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        Pringles
        last edited by

        lol fixed it i Turn off IPV6 all working now

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          dlogan
          last edited by

          Thanks.  System -> Advanced -> Networking, unchecked IPv6, package installer now working.

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            mlcastillo
            last edited by mlcastillo

            This puzzled me for awhile. Installing any package or changing the update branch made the web interface stop responding, as well as ssh. In my case, routing continues as normal while the router is otherwise inaccessible.

            System -> Advanced -> Networking -> Allow IPv6

            Uncheck to block all IPv6 traffic, all symptoms disappear. It doesn't exist in the bug tracker as far as I can tell.

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            • GertjanG
              Gertjan
              last edited by Gertjan

              The solution, disabling IPv6, actually asks for a better solution : make IPv6 work.

              I never had to disable IPv6 on my pfSense, even back in time when I had not any IPv6 support from my ISP. This ISP didn't t offer any IPv6 support back then, and they still don't do so today.
              Updating, or package management on pfSense worked well.

              I decided to add IPv6 support using he.net.
              No change, everything still works.
              he.net fails ? Or I disable this IPv6-Only-WAN connection ? Still ok, all is well.

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

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                mlcastillo @Gertjan
                last edited by

                Agreed. Having to disable functionality to make software stable is not a permanent solution. I really hope they fix ipv6 soon.

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                  xparanoik @mlcastillo
                  last edited by

                  Any news on this topic? Still seems to be an issue on the latest version (2.4.5-RELEASE-p1)

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                    mlcastillo @xparanoik
                    last edited by

                    @xparanoik Good question. I haven't been brave enough to try it again.

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                    • JKnottJ
                      JKnott @xparanoik
                      last edited by

                      @xparanoik

                      What is actually happening? Is the device getting a global IPv6 address, when there's no IPv6 provided? If it's only getting a link local address, it should cause this problem.

                      PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                      i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                      UniFi AC-Lite access point

                      I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                        xparanoik
                        last edited by

                        I actually already had IPv6 disabled this time around. In order to get the package installer GUI to work I had to run killall -9 pkg-static then pkg-static upgrade -f

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                        • JKnottJ
                          JKnott @xparanoik
                          last edited by

                          @xparanoik

                          So, you're saying it failed even with IPv6 disabled? If so, then it had nothing to do with the problem.

                          PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                          i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                          UniFi AC-Lite access point

                          I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                          • GertjanG
                            Gertjan
                            last edited by

                            Not sure.
                            IPv6 can be shut down using a click.
                            The blocked pkg-static process would still be blocked and locked in memory.
                            For good order, a reboot would have done some good here.

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

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                              mikeroygbiv @xparanoik
                              last edited by

                              @xparanoik
                              thanks!
                              its working

                              killall -9 pkg-static

                              then manually update install the packages from the package manager

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                                LoZZoL
                                last edited by

                                @xparanoik - thanks, using killall -9 pkg-static in the shell meant that I didn't need to reboot after the 2.4.5 -> 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 upgrade stopped me from being able to install package updates via Package Manager.

                                I think this is the top hit on DuckDuckGo so hopefully it will help others. Strange that it's seemingly been a problem for years.

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                                  xparanoik
                                  last edited by

                                  @mikeroygbiv @LoZZoL glad that helped!

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                                    beedsley
                                    last edited by

                                    Confirmed on the latest version of pfsense: 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (arm64)
                                    Rebooted pfsense
                                    Tried: killall -9 pkg-static
                                    Result: No matching processes were found
                                    Manually installed package: openvpn-client...
                                    Result: No change, still hangs on "lease wait while the update system initializes"

                                    Also, same failure, different pfsense install, just updating a different package, same result.

                                    Gotta be a way to get this working.

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                                      bmeeks @beedsley
                                      last edited by

                                      @beedsley said in Please wait while the update system initializes:

                                      Confirmed on the latest version of pfsense: 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (arm64)
                                      Rebooted pfsense
                                      Tried: killall -9 pkg-static
                                      Result: No matching processes were found
                                      Manually installed package: openvpn-client...
                                      Result: No change, still hangs on "lease wait while the update system initializes"

                                      Also, same failure, different pfsense install, just updating a different package, same result.

                                      Gotta be a way to get this working.

                                      You are NOT on the latest version of pfSense. That is now 2.5 as of this week, so you need to update to the 2.5 version. You cannot install any packages (nor update any existing packages) until you update pfSense. If you try and force it, you will likely break your firewall to the point a fresh install and configuration restore from a backup will be required.

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                                        beedsley @bmeeks
                                        last edited by

                                        @bmeeks Forced upgrades suck!
                                        I am not going to beta test the new version right away, this is dumb.

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                                          bmeeks @beedsley
                                          last edited by

                                          @beedsley said in Please wait while the update system initializes:

                                          @bmeeks Forced upgrades suck!
                                          I am not going to beta test the new version right away, this is dumb.

                                          It's not that pfSense is really trying to "force you" to upgrade. It's just that the package building system always builds on the latest pfSense version. It would be a lot of extra work to keep building packages for EOL versions of pfSense - not to mention the potential for leaving packages with security vulnerabilities still available for installation.

                                          Packages have to be compiled against an underlying OS version with certain assumed shared library versions. Always compiling against the "current" pfSense version is the best way.

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                                            beedsley @bmeeks
                                            last edited by

                                            @bmeeks Got it all sorted and working.
                                            Just needed to cycle the OS updates to develepment
                                            Wait for it to load the catalog of packages for that version, then toggle back to:
                                            "Previous stable version (2.4.5 DEPRECATED"
                                            so the catolog of packages for the current OS could be loaded and available for install.
                                            Then I could install packages for the 2.4.5 version WITHOUT upgrading the OS.

                                            Thankful!

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