pfSense upgrade broke, again

send9

I tried upgrading my NetGate 3100 to 23.01 last night and it broke, again. Last time it was potentially a disk space issue, but now it's not.

This is what boot up looks like in the serial console:

Welcome to Netgate pfSense Plus 23.01-RELEASE...

.random: unblocking device.
..ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/lib/engines /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/local/lib/ipsec /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.32/mach/CORE
done.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function gettext() in /etc/inc/certs.inc:48
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/functions.inc(34): require_once()
#1 /etc/rc.ecl(25): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
#2 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/certs.inc on line 48
Launching the init system...Starting CRON... done.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function gettext() in /etc/inc/certs.inc:48
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/functions.inc(34): require_once()
#1 /etc/inc/notices.inc(26): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
#2 /etc/inc/config.inc(51): require_once('/etc/inc/notice...')
#3 /etc/rc.start_packages(25): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#4 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/certs.inc on line 48
Netgate pfSense Plus 23.01-RELEASE arm Fri Feb 10 20:06:58 UTC 2023
Bootup complete

I found multiple posts about a similar error, but I can't use pkg to try to fix it because it's not even connected to the Internet. I tried running /etc/netstart manually but I see errors like these, so, I guess all I can do is pull config (I also auto back it up) and reinstall? It's pretty frustrating, I have to say.

Setting hostuuid: f92d6db4-b554-11ed-8342-0008a2122b3a.
Setting hostid: 0x89dfd384.
/etc/rc.d/hostname: WARNING: $hostname is not set -- see rc.conf(5).
/etc/netstart: /etc/rc.d/ipmon: not found
/etc/netstart: /etc/rc.d/ipfilter: not found
/etc/netstart: /etc/rc.d/ipnat: not found
/etc/netstart: /etc/rc.d/ipfs: not found

Edit: Here's the upgrade log:

cat /conf/upgrade_log.txt 
>>> Setting vital flag on php81... done.
ERROR: It was not possible to identify which pfSense meta package is installed
Your system is up to date

send9

I wound up getting a new image from support. I tried to recover from the autobackup thing but I didn't have my device ID, so make sure to save that along with your password. Luckily, I had backed up config.xml manually as well. All is working again but I wish I knew why it broke. I may only be a home user but this caused some chaos in my household today.