Issues updating from 2.3-RC (or older 2.3 installs) to 2.3-RELEASE

[fibrewire]

@jimp:

FYI- NanoBSD is not going to be a part of pfSense 2.4, so it's even less likely to be a concern in the future.

If you don't mind me asking, why is NanoBSD going away? Will 4GB CF cards still be supported?

[jimp]

@fibrewire:

@jimp:

FYI- NanoBSD is not going to be a part of pfSense 2.4, so it's even less likely to be a concern in the future.

If you don't mind me asking, why is NanoBSD going away? Will 4GB CF cards still be supported?

It's going away because it doesn't make sense to maintain it anymore. As hardware and media changes over time it makes less sense to operate the way it does.

We're looking into ways to accommodate headless systems without a working console, but there are very few such devices that are 64-bit. We're also looking into ways to in-place upgrade from NanoBSD to a full install.

CF will still work with a full install, as long as the hardware is 64-bit.

[addy.sharma]

Unable to upgrade on the GUI of pfsense it gives me the following error:

pfSense-default-config: 2.3.3 -> 2.3.3_1 [pfSense-core]
pfSense-base: 2.3.3 -> 2.3.3_1 [pfSense-core]
pfSense: 2.3.3 -> 2.3.3_1 [pfSense]
curl: 7.52.1_1 -> 7.53.0 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 7

41 MiB to be downloaded.
Fetching pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3.3_1.txz: …....... done
Fetching pfSense-default-config-2.3.3_1.txz: . done
Fetching pfSense-base-2.3.3_1.txz: . done
pkg: https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_3_3_amd64-core/All/pfSense-base-2.3.3_1.txz: Operation timed out

Locking package pfSense-kernel-pfSense... done.
Failed

[chrcoluk]

pkg.pfsense.org doesnt even resolve here.

[jimp]

@chrcoluk:

pkg.pfsense.org doesnt even resolve here.

You're doing it wrong.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=130708.msg719850#msg719850

[A Former User]

After upgrade:
Version 2.3-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Mon Apr 11 18:28:29 CDT 2016
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE

Unable to check for updates
–-----------------------------------------------------------------
pkg info -x pfSense
pfSense-2.3
pfSense-Status_Monitoring-1.0_1
pfSense-base-nanobsd-2.3
pfSense-default-config-serial-2.3
pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3
pfSense-pkg-AutoConfigBackup-1.43_1
pfSense-pkg-aws-wizard-0.5_1
pfSense-pkg-ipsec-profile-wizard-0.9_1
pfSense-pkg-openvpn-client-export-1.4.3
pfSense-rc-2.3
pfSense-repo-2.3
php56-pfSense-module-0.12

pkg upgrade -f
Nothing happens

rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf
rm: /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf: Read-only file system

fetch -qo /usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/RELENG_2_3_0/src/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted/pkg.pfsense.org.20160406
fetch: /usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg/trusted//pkg.pfsense.org.20160406: mkstemps(): Read-only file system

Error: /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf: Read-only file system.
Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover/: Permission denied; Modifications not recoverable if the session fails

Last here is present content of /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf

FreeBSD: { enabled: no }

pfSense-core: {
  url: "pkg+http://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_3_0_amd64-core",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg"
  enabled: yes
}

pfSense: {
  url: "pkg+http://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_3_0_amd64-pfSense_factory-v2_3_0",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/pkg"
  enabled: yes
}

Simple question which step am I missing here?

[jimp]

@Rajko:

rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf
rm: /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf: Read-only file system
[…]
Simple question which step am I missing here?

You have a filesystem problem which needs addressed. Failing to update is a symptom of some other problem you have, it's most likely not a problem with your updates.

Reboot into single user mode (option 2 at the boot menu IIRC) and then run "fsck -y /" repeatedly until it does not find any problems. Don't stop when it says the filesystem is clean, keep going until it finds no problems/makes no corrections. If that doesn't help, you might have a disk issue, or may need to reinstall. Start a new thread if you need more help with that since it isn't directly related to this thread.

[A Former User]

Using admin username which isn't built-in admin behaves differently on pfsense.

Once I re-enabled "admin" account and logged to firewall via SSH console, I was able to complete update.

2 firewalls fixed with these steps so far.

File system was fine.

[jimp]

@Rajko:

Using admin username which isn't built-in admin behaves differently on pfsense.

Once I re-enabled "admin" account and logged to firewall via SSH console, I was able to complete update.

2 firewalls fixed with these steps so far.

File system was fine.

When you used a non-root/admin account, did you run the update via sudo?

I would expect it to fail without sudo from an unprivileged user. That also explains the errors.

[waqasalisha]

please check your pfsense date and time .

[seo123456789]

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