My CE on Protectli FW2 can’t access updates
-
I have a Protectli FW2 with pfSense CE installed on it at the location of a church retreat center, for which I volunteer. I go there once a month at most.
Checking on whether there is an update, I am seeing that there is something newer than the 2.5.0 that’s installed. Going to System→Update the page is stuck on “Retrieving.” What could be the cause of that?
It couldn’t be the network speed: 2 ms latency, 24 Mbit/s ↓, 24 Mbit/s ↑.
I had encountered this with this hardware before, when I tried to update 2.4.4 to 2.5.0. I ended up reinstalling the pfSense CE distro from scratch.
-
@dominikhoffmann Check that DNS is working and pfSense can resolve a domain via Diagnostics - DNS Lookup.
-
@kom: Yes, thank you! It was able to resolve www.c*n.com (🤮) just fine. It must be something else.
-
By the way, I am working with my ISP to give me a static IP, so I can use OpenVPN to administer the pfSense box.
At some point they had switched to giving their customers double-NATted IP addresses. That killed being able to reach the network from the outside, even with an open ssh port. It certainly made the OpenVPN server I have running on that box unreachable.
In other words, I cannot now test other aspects of the configuration, until I am on location again. Hopefully, I will get a static IP soon.
-
@dominikhoffmann If you have console access, you could try the upgrade from there via menu option 13 or running a shell and doing it from the command line:
#pfSense-upgrade -
@kom: I could try that, because I do have console access through ssh. However, I definitely still would very much like to understand, why the regular is not working, if it ends up working through the console.
-
@dominikhoffmann You might get more feedback if something goes wrong if you run via console.
-
Yup upgrading at the console will give you far more error output.
You can also try running
pkg -d update. That will show even more error output if there are issues reaching the update repo.Steve
