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      hack3rcon
      last edited by hack3rcon

      Hello,
      I upgrade pfSense from 2.7.0 to 2.7.2 and I want to upgrade it to 2.8.1, but:

      [2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@Tor.home.arpa]/root: pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade
pkg-static: Setting ALTABI manually is no longer supported, set ABI and OSVERSION or ABI_FILE instead.
pkg-static: Setting ABI requires setting OSVERSION, guessing the OSVERSION as: 1500000
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%     179 B   0.2 kB/s    00:01    
Fetching data: 100%    1632 B   1.6 kB/s    00:01    
Sandboxed process pid=74814 terminated abnormally by signal: 12
pkg-static: No signature found
Fetching packagesite: 100%    1590 B   1.6 kB/s    00:01    
Sandboxed process pid=75118 terminated abnormally by signal: 12
pkg-static: No signature found
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%     179 B   0.2 kB/s    00:01    
Fetching data: 100%   185 KiB  94.6 kB/s    00:02    
Sandboxed process pid=75139 terminated abnormally by signal: 12
pkg-static: No signature found
Fetching packagesite: 100%   185 KiB  63.0 kB/s    00:03    
Sandboxed process pid=75421 terminated abnormally by signal: 12
pkg-static: No signature found
Unable to update repository pfSense
Error updating repositories!
[2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@Tor.home.arpa]/root: pfSense-upgrade
pfSense-repoc-static: si_get_packages: failed to run the pkg info command: /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -R --raw-format json-compact pfSense-pkg-\* 2>&1
pfSense-repoc-static: no pfSense packages installed
ERROR: It was not possible to identify which pfSense kernel is installed

      Update-.png

      What should I do?

      Thank you.

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        @hack3rcon said in Error updating repositories!:

        pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade

        Why are you trying to manually install pfSense-upgrade?

        It looks like pkg is getting killed though. Is it exhausting the RAM? Try rebooting then retrying.

        However if you have pulled in pkg from FreeBSD you might be hitting something else.

        It's probably going to be easier to just install 2.8.1 clean and restore your config than trying to roll back whatever pkgs have been installed there.

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          hack3rcon @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 I just wanted to use CLI.

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          • stephenw10S Offline
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Mmm, I would start over from something known. I'm not sure what state that install is in.

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