SG-1000 BAD update 07/10/2017

keyoke_za

Hi All,
Over the weekend I install latest 2.4.0RC update which put my device in unhappy state, in the end I discovered that the pkg folder on server had been renamed .BAD.

_Repository pfSense-core missing. 'pkg update' required
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue…
pkg: Repository pfSense-core load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory
pkg: Repository pfSense-core missing. 'pkg update' required

Updating repositories metadata...
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pkg: Repository pfSense-core load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory
pkg: https://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_4_0_armv6-core/meta.txz: Not Found
repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: https://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_4_0_armv6-core/packagesite.txz: Not Found
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pkg: Repository pfSense load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory
pkg: https://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_4_0_armv6-pfSense_factory-v2_4_0/meta.txz: Not Found
repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: https://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_4_0_armv6-pfSense_factory-v2_4_0/packagesite.txz: Not Found
Unable to update repository pfSense
Error updating repositories!
Netgate SG-1000 - Serial: XX_

I can now only connect via Serial connection. I waited until last night when the packages were available again, now the error above no longer appears although
I have a different one seen below.

pkg: Unable to determine ABI
pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!
pkg: Unable to determine ABI
pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!
ERROR: It was not possible to identify which pfSense kernel is installed
Netgate SG-1000 - Serial: XX

If I open shell and run pkg update manually I get

[2.4.0-RC][root@drawbridge.acomalocal]/root: pkg update -f
Child process pid=32940 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

also tried restoring previous configs

I don't know what to do to fix this, can anybody provide some guidance?
Regards
Gareth

jimp

The best course of action would be to reinstall.

You could try something like this first:

pkg-static update -f; pkg-static upgrade -f

But reinstalling from a current recovery image and then updating again would be faster.

keyoke_za

Ok thanks I will try this. Is it easy to copy over my old config? I don't want to have to re-configure everything from scratch.
Many Thanks
Gareth

jimp

If you have a local backup, yes. If you do not have a local backup, try to get connected to the GUI to use Diagnostics > Backup/Restore, or even scp/ssh on the current system and see if you can download /conf/config.xml from the box