Unable to check for updates (SOLVED)

[stephenw10]

Check the system log. Do you see the repo package being upgraded and then downgraded again?

This could be a completely different problem of course.

Try running at the command line: pkg -d update
See what error it throws.

Steve

[KB8DOA]

@stephenw10 @bingo600

It is now working and is seeing updates and packages correctly for v22.01

Thank you all, for your assistance.

[TheQuank]

@matt2 Worked on my Super Micro 1537 one too. Thanks so much!

[gothixkhan]

@bingo600 said in Unable to check for updates (SOLVED):

https://forum.netgate.com/post/1062058

My sincerest apologies to revive a resolved thread.
currently experiencing this error.
switching the upgrade channel to DEVEL and back to upgrade+ did not work for me.

command pkg -d update keeps throwing certificate errors.

this is a fresh install of pfsense 2.6

[bingo600]

@gothixkhan
The above solution, was due to an update error that Netgate made.
I doubt they would make the same mistake again.

I think there is something else : Than an incomplete update URL, causing your issue.

/Bingo

[stephenw10]

Yes, any error you're seeing now is not the same cause.
What's the actual error 'pkg -d update' shows?

I know there were some backend issues yesterday you could potentially have been hitting.

Steve

[gothixkhan]

@stephenw10 it alternates between Certificate and authentication issues.

it flips on reboot.

[stephenw10]

Can we see the exact error text?

[gothixkhan]

@stephenw10 not anymore, apparently.
it works now?

I'm sorry

[stephenw10]

Cool, good to hear.

[gothixkhan]

@stephenw10 just to clarify what I did and why it worked.

I had it set to the development branch.
I think you guys had a release either yesterday or the day before.
the updater + upgrade to pf+ only works because it picked up the new release, which is 20221220.1549

up until yesterday it was erroring out.

[briddle]

@matt2

I had the same issue and this worked like a charm!

[wifi-will]

@sgc Fixed for me. THankyou!

[Jare 0]

Still having trouble with this.

I'm on a 6100 - running 22.01.

When running "pkg -d update" I get different errors depending on the selected firmware branch. I get an invalid link error on the release branches and the dev branch gives me much more... few examples below. I can post the entire result if needed.

"pkg: Repository pfSense-core has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database"

"DBG(1)[79952]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense-core"

"pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64"

"pkg: repository pfSense-core contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:14:amd64"

"Processing entries... done"

"Unable to update repository pfSense-core"

"Error updating repositories!"

I've searched around and found some info on forced update of the database but thought I'd check in here first.

Thank you.

[stephenw10]

Looks like you may have pulled in a bad pfSense-upgrade at some point. What does pkg info pfSense-upgrade show?
You may need to switch the repo back to 22.01 and force reinstall pfSense-upgrade from there.

[Jare 0]

@stephenw10

pfSense-upgrade-1.0_27
Name : pfSense-upgrade
Version : 1.0_27
Installed on : Fri Sep 16 19:48:18 2022 EDT
Origin : sysutils/pfSense-upgrade
Architecture : FreeBSD:12:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : sysutils
Licenses : APACHE20
Maintainer : coreteam@pfsense.org
WWW : https://www.pfsense.org/
Comment : pfSense upgrade script
Annotations :
FreeBSD_version: 1203506
build_timestamp: 2022-09-08T00:05:44+0000
built_by : poudriere-git-3.3.99.20220831
port_checkout_unclean: no
port_git_hash : 83c4d6dbf695
ports_top_checkout_unclean: yes
ports_top_git_hash: 8065fbca4d5a
repo_type : binary
repository : pfSense
Flat size : 63.7KiB
Description :
pfSense upgrade script

WWW: https://www.pfsense.org/

[stephenw10]

Yeah, that's a much later version.

Make sure the update branch is set to 22.01 then run:
pkg upgrade -f pfSense-upgrade

That should bring you back to the correct pkg for 22.01 and that should then allow you to upgrade to either 22.05 or 23.01b.

[Jare 0]

@stephenw10

Just gave that a shot and received the following;

pkg: invalid url: /pfSense_plus-v22_01_amd64-core
pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!

I would obviously like a quick fix to this, but would doing a clean install of 22.05 and uploading my 22.01 config file clear up this issue? I've been toying with the idea of changing to ZFS anyway.

I appreciate your time - thank you.

[stephenw10]

@jare-0 said in Unable to check for updates (SOLVED):

would doing a clean install of 22.05 and uploading my 22.01 config file clear up this issue?

Yes. An that's also probably quickest if you have local access to the firewall.

[thwong]

@techpro2004 thanks for your fix.
I was running stable 22.05.14 and since then I couldn't update to any version.

With your fix, I can update mine to development version without any issues.