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    [10/8 SNAPSHOT] Updating Issue "Another instance is already running…Aborting!"

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Finger79
      last edited by

      I'm on 2.4.0 RC October 8

      Option 13 gives me "Another instance is already running… Aborting!"

      When typing in pkg update -f from Shell I get:

      Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
      pkg: Repository pfSense-core load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSen
      se-core.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory
      

      then after a couple minutes:

      pkg: https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense-v2_4_0_amd64-core/meta.txz: No address reco
      rd
      repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
      pkg: https;//pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_4_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz: No addre
      ss record
      Unable to update repository pfSense-core
      Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
      pkg: Repository pfSense load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sq
      lite) failed: No such file or directory
      

      then after a couple minutes:

      pkg: https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_4_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_4_0/meta.txz: No ad
      dress record
      repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
      

      then after a couple minutes:

      pkg: https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_4_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_4_0/packagesite.txz
      : No address record
      Unable to update repository pfSense
      Error updating repositories!
      
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        Finger79
        last edited by

        pkg fetch -y pkg

        Same results as above.

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          Finger79
          last edited by

          pkg -ddd upgrade -n gives:

          (screenshot only captures first screen of output)

          Output ends with:

          Unable to update repository PfSense
          Error updating repositories!
          

          ![pkg -ddd upgrade -n.PNG](/public/imported_attachments/1/pkg -ddd upgrade -n.PNG)
          ![pkg -ddd upgrade -n.PNG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/pkg -ddd upgrade -n.PNG_thumb)

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            Finger79
            last edited by

            pkg -ddd upgrade -Fn gives:

            (screenshot only captures first screen of output)

            Output ends with:

            Unable to update repository PfSense
            Error updating repositories!
            

            ![pkg -ddd upgrade -Fn.PNG](/public/imported_attachments/1/pkg -ddd upgrade -Fn.PNG)
            ![pkg -ddd upgrade -Fn.PNG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/pkg -ddd upgrade -Fn.PNG_thumb)

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              Finger79
              last edited by

              Similar results with:

              pkg -dddd upgrade -n

              and

              pkg -dddd upgrade -Fn

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                Finger79
                last edited by

                Update:  I gave up trying to fix this and just chalked this up to a bad snapshot from 10/8.  I did a reinstall with the 10/9 snapshot, and things are back to normal.

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