Netgate 2100 (24.11) Boot Environments - Upgrading Boot Environment constantly running

[ghiner]

I have the above device on the current system. I was trying to free up space on my drive but one of the boot environments is shown as "upgrading boot environment" - problem is that the "upgrading" never stops and thus there is no way in the GUI that I can see to delete this boot environment. I assume I may need to enter a command via the shell but that is just a guess. Any help would be appreciated.

[Gertjan]

@ghiner

Before upgrading, I saw the same message.
From then point, I zapped it .... This is what I did :

The 'upgrade' process that blocks is spawn, is more a "sync with the Netgate package servers" after a 'random time' and is actually pretty inoffensive.

You can even see it running :
O the console, option 8:

ps ax | grep 'pkg'

I can't see that process anymore, so show us what that command shows you.
I looked at the process's file, a very readable shell script file, and it a made me laugh when I saw it. There was a random delay in it, and it could have been there for hours before doing actually an "upgrades available" test.
I killed it.
That unlocked the actual upgrade path to 24.11.

[stephenw10]

You can use bectl at the CLI to manipulate boot environments if you need to. Use bectl list then bectl delete xxx for example.

[ghiner]

@stephenw10 This did the trick - thanks very much. One note on bectl command is that I had to use bectl destroy not bectl delete.

[stephenw10]

Ah, yes. Been a while I guess.