Unable to check for updates

juliansamuel

Hi Everyone,
I've been running 2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT on a MBT-2220. After my last update on 8/28, I am getting the error - Unable to check for updates. Is anyone else seeing this and anyone know a way around this? Thank you!

kiokoman

no, did you try from console?

option 13

or

pkg-static update -f 
pfSense-upgrade

also check this
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-troubleshooting.html

juliansamuel

@kiokoman thank you!

I have not tried from the console yet.

Here is my upgrade log.
upgrade_log.latest.txt

When I tried the manual command
pkg-static update -f
pfSense-upgrade

I got the following error
Abort trap
Abort trap
Abort trap
Abort trap
Abort trap
Abort trap
Abort trap
ERROR: It was not possible to identify which pfSense kernel is installed

Gertjan

Don't get it.

Your upgrade says : all well.

Then :
@juliansamuel said in Unable to check for updates:

I got the following error

Where did you saw this error ? In what context ?
Remember : we can't see what you saw.

chpalmer

@juliansamuel said in Unable to check for updates:

ERROR: It was not possible to identify which pfSense kernel is installed

My guess is that an earlier install was interrupted and failed. I would recommend you reinstall from scratch.

juliansamuel

This what I got when I chose option 13

juliansamuel

Truncated ELF file is blocking any command

kiokoman

use the reboot menu option (5), followed by F to reboot and force a filesystem check

if this does not help it's better to reinstall everything

Gertjan

"Truncated ELF file" => standard OS commands are unreadable.

Leave the disk as is.
Salvage config.xml
Reboot using a install device and install from scratch.

When you are asked to format the destination drive, do no go for quick one, but chose the non-default total format with check (I didn't re install pfSense on a physical disk, mine just wont die after nearly 10 years ...)