How do I restore my package conf files

blackfrog

I screwed up my pfSense conf file. I was trying to download a package from FreeBSD, and now I cannot download anything.

I restore a backup of the file:

[24.11-RELEASE][root@brickwall.csbogb.com]/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos: cat pfSense.conf
FreeBSD: { enabled: no }

pfSense-core: {
    url: "pkg+https://pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com/pfSense_plus-v24_11_amd64-core",
    mirror_type: "srv",
    signature_type: "fingerprints",
    fingerprints: "/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg",
    enabled: yes
}

pfSense: {
    url: "pkg+https://pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com/pfSense_plus-v24_11_amd64-pfSense_plus_v24_11",
    mirror_type: "srv",
    signature_type: "fingerprints",
    fingerprints: "/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg",
    enabled: yes
}

But I am getting the following error:

[24.11-RELEASE][root@brickwall.csbogb.com]/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos: pkg update -f
pkg: Setting ALTABI manually is no longer supported, set ABI and OSVERSION or ABI_FILE instead.
pkg: Setting ABI requires setting OSVERSION, guessing the OSVERSION as: 1500000
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error
Unable to update repository pfSense
Error updating repositories!
[24.11-RELEASE][root@brickwall.csbogb.com]/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos: ping pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com
ping: cannot resolve pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com: Address family for hostname not supported

Does restoring from a full backup?

patient0

@blackfrog said in How do I restore my package conf files:

Edit: just realised the last lines:

ping pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com
ping: cannot resolve pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com: Address family for hostname not supported

Can you connect to the internet at all, like ping 1.1.1.1? From that message it does look as if DNS is not working on your system.

Does restoring from a full backup?

I doubt it will fix file system issues. A reinstall and restore config file will do that though.

I checked the file on my system - also 24.11 - and it does look identical. BUT pfSense.conf it's just a link to /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-0001.conf.

If you have the /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/ directory intact then creating the link will may work (not done it myself).

# ls -l /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
total 1
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 25 Dec  2 11:16 FreeBSD.conf
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel 55 Feb  7 13:24 pfSense.conf -> /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-0001.conf

# ls /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/
pfSense-repo-0000-cert.pem      pfSense-repo-0000.conf          pfSense-repo-0001-cert.pem      pfSense-repo-0001.conf          pfSense-repo-0001.release
pfSense-repo-0000-key.pem       pfSense-repo-0000.descr         pfSense-repo-0001-key.pem       pfSense-repo-0001.default       pfSense-repo-0001.version
pfSense-repo-0000.abi           pfSense-repo-0000.name          pfSense-repo-0001.abi           pfSense-repo-0001.descr
pfSense-repo-0000.altabi        pfSense-repo-0000.version       pfSense-repo-0001.altabi        pfSense-repo-0001.name

bmeeks

@blackfrog said in How do I restore my package conf files:

I screwed up my pfSense conf file. I was trying to download a package from FreeBSD, and now I cannot download anything.

You did the one thing you should not do -- attempt to download and install a FreeBSD package that is not part of the official pfSense repo.

In all likelihood you have pulled in the wrong version of the pkg utility or a supporting library from that other repo. At this point you really might want to consider obtaining a 24.11 pfSense Plus image from Netgate support (access to reinstall images are no-charge tickets) and reinstall pfSense Plus from scratch thenrestore a recent config.xml file to restore your system.

bmeeks

@patient0 said in How do I restore my package conf files:

ping pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com
ping: cannot resolve pfsense-plus-pkg.netgate.com: Address family for hostname not supported
Can you connect to the internet at all, like ping 1.1.1.1? From that message it does look as if DNS is not working on your system.

You can't ping the package server like that directly. That hostname is actually a DNS text service record that ping does not know how to resolve. You must ask the DNS client to resolve the service record (SRV) using that hostname. The pkg utility knows how to do that, but ping does not.