Packages won’t update
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Until recently packages no longer update. On 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1. After “Confirm” is chose it just sits on “ Please wait while the update system initializes” and wont finish. Suggestions?
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You normally cannot update packages any longer when you are not running the current version of pfSense. So since you are running 2.4.5, and the latest pfSense version is 2.5.2, you won't be able to install or update packages in the conventional way. And if you were to find a way to force it, you would probably totally break your firewall. This is because the packages repository is always recompiled with each update of pfSense. And new package versions generally can't run on older pfSense versions due to changes in shared libraries.
There is an option on the SYSTEM > UPDATE page to switch your repository branch to the "Previous stable version (2.4.5 DEPRECATED)". If you do that, you can install new packages on the firewall, but there are no actual "updated" packages in that tree for the reason I mentioned above. They will all be frozen at whatever version they had when pfSense released the 2.5.x stable branch.
If you want to truly update any installed packages to newer versions, then you must first upgrade your firewall to the latest pfSense version.
If you have already attempted to install a new package, or update an existing package, with the repo set incorrectly, you may have broken the
pkgsubsystem on the firewall. Search the pfSense documentation here for help with fixing that. Or maybe export your configuration, then install the latest pfSense version and then import your configuration. -
@bmeeks Thanks for your response. Upgraded to 2.5.2 and all packages are now updated as well. However, the NordVpn client is no longer up. Perhaps I need to start a new post on a different group for this.
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@bmeeks Didn't expect it to break. Not sure how to fix other than to start from scratch.
OpenVpn log;
Aug 21 10:43:44 openvpn 61452 VERIFY KU OK
Aug 21 10:43:44 openvpn 61452 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=PA, O=NordVPN, CN=NordVPN CA6
Aug 21 10:43:44 openvpn 61452 VERIFY OK: depth=2, C=PA, O=NordVPN, CN=NordVPN Root CA
Aug 21 10:43:44 openvpn 61452 VERIFY WARNING: depth=2, unable to get certificate CRL: C=PA, O=NordVPN, CN=NordVPN Root CA
Aug 21 10:43:44 openvpn 61452 VERIFY WARNING: depth=1, unable to get certificate CRL: C=PA, O=NordVPN, CN=NordVPN CA6
Aug 21 10:43:44 openvpn 61452 VERIFY WARNING: depth=0, unable to get certificate CRL: CN=us8961.nordvpn.com -
Lot's of things changed with OpenVPN. It went to a new binary version. There are many posts in the OpenVPN sub-forum here. I recommend reading and searching posts in there, and then perhaps creating your own new one if nothing existing solves your problem.
I'm not a VPN provider user. I don't use OpenVPN for anything other than remote access back into my LAN, so I can't be of any help with provider issues.
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@bmeeks Thanks, appreciate your responses. Up until recently that's all I used as well, a remote in. It still works fine. I'll go through and recreate, it's a good hour when I implemented a month ago, uggg!
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@markn62 said in Packages won’t update:
@bmeeks Thanks, appreciate your responses. Up until recently that's all I used as well, a remote in. It still works fine. I'll go through and recreate, it's a good hour when I implemented a month ago, uggg!
Yeah, I had no issues with my remote access migrating. But lots of folks using the various VPN providers for privacy reasons posted about having problems. There were a number of related threads in the OpenVPN sub-forum here on the Netgate forum.
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@markn62 said in Packages won’t update:
@bmeeks Thanks again. Was a quick checkbox fix from this post. Working now.
