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

      I'm running 2.4.2_1, and tried to update today.

      System update failed:

      Updating repositories metadata… failed

      Any suggestions? Device is in a colo centre in Europe. So not easily accessible to me.

      Many thanks.

      2.4.3 (amd64)
      and given up on the SG-1000

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan
        last edited by

        Hi,

        There are many forum threads about how to re-activate the update/upgrade system. List some of them and do what is proposed..

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

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          awair
          last edited by

          Thank you for your help: I'd browsed the first three pages, and found nothing similar to my issue.

          I have since searched repository/repositories, "update failed" & reactivate with no results that assist.

          If anyone can refer me to a previous thread, or suggest a search term, it would be appreciated.

          2.4.3 (amd64)
          and given up on the SG-1000

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan
            last edited by

            Use the word "repositories" for a global search on the forum.
            You find what to do.

            If not, consider system broken, backup config and goto latest version, import config and done (5 minutes work ?).

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

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              awair
              last edited by

              @Gertjan:

              global search on the forum.

              If not, consider system broken, backup config and goto latest version, import config and done (5 minutes work ?).

              Thanks for the trigger 'global' - I didn't realise that my search wasn't checking the whole forum. Maybe that's why my results came up short.

              This post helped me fix the problem:
              https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=145605.0

              Not sure which command it was, but things got progressively better until I could complete the update.

              If this hadn't worked, not so (5 minutes) trivial, as this is a remote (3000 miles) installation…

              2.4.3 (amd64)
              and given up on the SG-1000

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