PFSense Stuck at “Please wait while the update system initializes” while uninstaling or upgrading any package

akuani

I just had this weird problem on my PFSense VM. It neither can't upgrade nor uninstalling any package and is always stuck at "Please wait while the update system initializes."

I tried rebooting to no avail and tried running pkg_info on PFsense cmd as mention by this post, but it shows sh: pkg_info: not found.

PFSense Version:
2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
built on Tue Jun 02 17:51:17 EDT 2020
FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE

EDIT:

Just fixed the issue by installing a random package (acme, for this instance). Seems like the repo got corrupted. It's all okay now.

Gertjan

@akuani said in PFSense Stuck at “Please wait while the update system initializes” while uninstaling or upgrading any package:

as mention by this post,

That thread doesn't mention pkg_info ....
That command doesn't exist on my (CE version) neither.
That thread mentions a "3100" problem that exists for that typical pfSense version.

Have a look at this : https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/pkg-broken-database.html

akuani

@gertjan noted with. Thanks!