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Bug #10303

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pfSense-upgrade is not upgrading itself

Added by Renato Botelho about 4 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Upgrade
Target version:
Start date:
02/28/2020
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
All
Affected Architecture:

Description

pfSense-upgrade was being registered as a dependency of pfSense-repo pkg. Because of that, when pfSense-repo package was upgraded to latest version, it was upgraded together and the code used to detect a new version of pfSense-upgrade was not being triggered.

Actions #1

Updated by Renato Botelho about 4 years ago

Fix pushed. pfSense-upgrade 0.78

Actions #2

Updated by Peter Pain about 4 years ago

I got a

/bin/sh: cannot open /usr/local/sbin/pfSense-upgrade: No such file or directory

after updating to 2.4.5.r.20200228.1200 when trying to update on the console with option "13".

Workaround:
"pkg update && pkg upgrade -y" to update to 2.4.5.r.20200228.1500 then installed "pfSense-upgrade: 0.78" automatically:

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2253 Feb 28 21:00 /usr/local/sbin/pfSense-upgrade

(TZ is Europe/Berlin)

No idea if that breaks update from the gui for people not using the console to update.

Actions #3

Updated by Chris Palmer about 4 years ago

Peter Pain wrote:

I got a

/bin/sh: cannot open /usr/local/sbin/pfSense-upgrade: No such file or directory

after updating to 2.4.5.r.20200228.1200

I tried updating from the GUI and ended up with the same issue. Executing "pkg update && pkg upgrade -y" from Peters workaround above worked.

Actions #4

Updated by Grimson Gretzleburg about 4 years ago

Yes there is currently something going wrong here. I updated to 2.4.5.r.20200229.0900 a moment ago, using the WebUI:

The first part of the update went normal, pfSense downloaded the packages and updated "pfSense-rc" and "pfSense-kernel" followed by the normal reboot.

During the bootup it complained that it couldn't find /usr/local/sbin/pfSense-upgrade, so the "pfSense-base", "pfSense-default-config" and "pfSense" packages where not upgraded.

Checking via "pkg info | grep pfSense" the "pfSense-upgrade" packaged was simply not installed. After installing it using "pkg install pfSense-upgrade" and rebooting a second time the remaining pfSense packages got upgraded normally during bootup.

Actions #5

Updated by Chris Palmer about 4 years ago

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/150931/update

Looks like a bug or two still.

Follow Peters fix above if this got you.

Actions #6

Updated by Renato Botelho about 4 years ago

Due to change of pfSense-upgrade dependency to pfSense meta package, before upgrade cycle it was not registered as a dependency and was removed by `pkg autoremove`

I've added some code to set it as vital to prevent it happening again.

If it happens on a system, the fix is just to run `pkg install pfSense-upgrade`

Fixed on 0.79 / 0.67

Actions #7

Updated by Jim Pingle about 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved

I've been upgrading VMs here with success on 2.5.0 and 2.4.5 around these times and it's been OK. Even some older VMs I powered on and upgraded have been alright.

Can revisit if needed, perhaps adding a note about that condition to the upgrade guide/blog post is warranted. I'll take care of that,

Actions #8

Updated by Jim Pingle about 4 years ago

I added a note to the 2.4.5 release notes and to the blog post, so there shouldn't be anything else left to do here.

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