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    Package avahi-daemon does not exist in current Netgate pfSense Plus version and it has been removed.

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      hulleyrob
      last edited by hulleyrob

      Got this message after recovering from yesterdays backup after breaking everything.

      its not true as this is the second package in the package list when I go to reinstall it.

      Hope this is the right place to report it.

      Rob

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @hulleyrob
        last edited by johnpoz

        @hulleyrob huh? I am running 21.05.2 and I see the avahi package available, even after I uninstalled it..

        Are you running a snapshot of 22.x maybe?

        avahi.jpg

        Are you saying when you click to install it on available - it gives you some error?

        installit.jpg

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          hulleyrob @johnpoz
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          @johnpoz Hi, yeah that's my confusion so after restoring my config from my backup I received the notification "Package avahi-daemon does not exist in current Netgate pfSense Plus version and it has been removed."

          Yet when I go to package manager there it is so I reinstalled it.

          This is my version:
          21.05.2-RELEASE (amd64)
          built on Fri Oct 22 15:24:02 UTC 2021

          Its a new Netgate 6100 and this is the version that came on it.

          Thanks
          Rob

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            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @hulleyrob
            last edited by johnpoz

            @hulleyrob did you move from say CE version to plus version? Possible they renamed the package slightly? And your old vesion for CE doesn't exist in +?

            Or maybe from much older plus version to the current 21.05.2?

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              hulleyrob @johnpoz
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              @johnpoz yeah that's what I did originally but that backup is from the 6100 yesterday unless the incorrect name has carried over from the original config somehow but I thought it would have got renamed when I reinstalled it originally after the swap. the 6100 has been up and running for over a week and backup I used was from yesterday morning.

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                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @hulleyrob
                last edited by johnpoz

                @hulleyrob so I do recall something about packages being removed and forcing full reinstall going forward.. Not exactly sure when they implemented that or if say the package name has changed.

                I just looked on my 2.5.2 install and it lists atleast in the gui the same name and dependency for the avahi package. But not see avahi-daemon anywhere..

                And looking with pkg list..

                [21.05.2-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/root: pkg info
                arpwatch-3.1                   Monitor arp & rarp requests
                avahi-app-0.8                  Service discovery on a local network
                

                If I had to take a guess, at some point it has been changed from avahi-daemon to avahi-app? That would for sure explain what you experienced. If the name changed

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                  hulleyrob @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz yeah I thought it might be something like that but you would have thought it would have updated the name after the resinstall and my backup would have had the new name.

                  it seems like something still has the mismatch name causing the alert.

                  anyway just thought I would report it in case anyone else had the problem.

                  its easy enough to fix you just manually install the package.

                  Rob

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                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @hulleyrob
                    last edited by johnpoz

                    @hulleyrob If I had to guess there are some things in redmine about packages not installing on reinstall, and this one talks about forcing reinstall sort of thing..

                    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12235

                    To report the issue you have experienced we would really need some more details, and copies of your config you restored, etc..

                    But as you said its easy enough to work around.. But yeah it could get frustrating for someone, sure..

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