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

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      ghiner
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      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.

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan @ghiner
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        @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.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

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

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            ghiner @stephenw10
            last edited by

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

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Ah, yes. Been a while I guess. 😉

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