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Upgrade to 23.09.1 is not offered for 23.05.1

Bug #15097: Upgrade to 23.09.1 is not offered for 23.05.1

Added by Kris Phillips over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Marcos M

Category:

Upgrade

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Due date:

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Release Notes:

Force Exclusion

Affected Plus Version:

23.05.1

Affected Architecture:

amd64

Description

Since the release of 23.09.1, devices that upgrade to 23.05.1 from a previous version are unable to upgrade to 23.09.1 due to the symlink to the current repo not being present under /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf.

Currently users can workaround this problem by going to System --> Update --> Update Settings, clicking save without making any changes, and the symlink will be regenerated.

Here is the output of "pfSense-upgrade -d -c" immediately after upgrading to 23.05.1 with an affected system:

cp: /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf: No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to open '/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos//pfSense.conf':No such file or directory
Messages:
Your Netgate device has pfSense+ as part of your device purchase.
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version

Updating repositories metadata...

pkg-static: Unable to open '/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos//pfSense.conf':No such file or directory
No active remote repositories configured.
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-base remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-kernel-pfSense remote version
Your system is up to date

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KP Updated by Kris Phillips over 2 years ago Actions
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Can confirm that this seems to consistently happen basically every time someone upgrades from 23.01 to 23.05.1.

DZ Updated by Danilo Zrenjanin over 2 years ago Actions
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Status changed from New to Confirmed

Yeah, I can confirm this behavior on Netgate 6100.

cp: /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf: No such file or directory
Messages:
Your Netgate device has pfSense+ as part of your device purchase.
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version
>>> Updating repositories metadata...
No active remote repositories configured.
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-base remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-kernel-pfSense remote version
Your system is up to date

The recommended workaround didn't help.

Currently users can workaround this problem by going to System --> Update --> Update Settings, clicking save without making any changes, and the symlink will be regenerated.

KP Updated by Kris Phillips over 2 years ago Actions
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Danilo Zrenjanin wrote in #note-2:

Yeah, I can confirm this behavior on Netgate 6100.

[...]

The recommended workaround didn't help.

[...]

If, for whatever reason this doesn't work, flipping the branches from previous and stable will definitely resolve it.

MM Updated by Marcos M over 2 years ago Actions
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Subject changed from Repo Symlink Missing on 23.05.1 After 23.09.1 Repos Became Available to Upgrade to 23.09.1 is not offered for 23.05.1
Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
Assignee set to Marcos M
Release Notes changed from Default to Force Exclusion
Affected Architecture amd64 added
Affected Architecture deleted (~~All~~)

The system link does exist:

[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@gw]/root: ls -lha /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512B Nov  7 18:19 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512B Jun 27  2023 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    26B Jun 27  2023 FreeBSD.conf
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    60B Nov  7 18:19 pfSense.conf -> /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-23_09_rel.conf

However, the file it points to does not:

[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@gw]/root: ls -lha /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos
total 64
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   1.0K Dec 29 13:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512B Dec 29 13:58 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2.0K Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel-cert.pem
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.2K Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel-key.pem
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    16B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.abi
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    17B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.altabi
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   512B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    32B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.descr
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    11B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.name
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2.0K Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point-cert.pem
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.2K Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point-key.pem
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    16B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point.abi
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    17B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point.altabi
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   512B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    31B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point.descr
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    12B Dec 29 13:58 pfSense-repo-stable-point.name

Additional logs:

[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@gw]/root: cat /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
ABI=FreeBSD:14:amd64
ALTABI=freebsd:14:x86:64
[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@gw]/root: pkg-static info | egrep 'pfSense-[^pSm]|pkg-[0-9]'
pkg-static: Unable to open '/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos//pfSense.conf':No such file or directory
pfSense-23.05.1                Meta package to install pfSense required ports
pfSense-base-23.05.1           pfSense core files
pfSense-boot-23.05.1           pfSense boot files
pfSense-default-config-23.05.1 pfSense default config
pfSense-kernel-pfSense-23.05.1 pfSense kernel (pfSense)
pfSense-rc-23.05.1             pfSense rc script and rc.initial shell
pfSense-repo-23.05.1           Setup pfSense pkg(8) repositories
pfSense-repoc-20230605         pfSense dynamic repository client
pfSense-upgrade-1.0_68         pfSense upgrade script
pkg-1.20.8_2                   Package manager
[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@gw]/root: pfSense-upgrade -dc
cp: /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf: No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to open '/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos//pfSense.conf':No such file or directory
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version
>>> Updating repositories metadata...
pkg-static: Unable to open '/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos//pfSense.conf':No such file or directory
No active remote repositories configured.
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-base remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-kernel-pfSense remote version
Your system is up to date

The issue is due to a missing .default file, e.g. /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.default. This is now fixed.

TL Updated by Tom L over 2 years ago Actions
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Marcos M wrote in #note-4:

The issue is due to a missing .default file, e.g. /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-23_09_1_rel.default. This is now fixed.

I am having the same issue - however - the recommendations above did not correct the issue. I see the note that it is fixed - how do I apply the fix? Creating an empty file to replace the .default doesn't solve the issue - I assumed there was more to it then that.

that said my error message did change -

pfSense-upgrade -d
failed to read the repo data.
failed to update the repository settings!!!
failed to update the repository settings!!!

I found a default file under /pfSense-tmp/ and the file just had a 1 in it - so I did try that as well but I get the same error. I have tried on both the current and previous repo settings as well.

update:
actually -- I have another issue - if I just run pkg - I get the following ...
pkg
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libssl.so.30" not found, required by "pkg"

so - I think perhaps the upgrade to 23.09 partially failed someplace - so it would seem the original error is corrected by creating the .default ( or changing the repo version back and forth as stated above ) and I am back off on a search.
thank you

CP Updated by Clément PAPPALARDO over 2 years ago Actions
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I had this issue on appliances while upgrading to 23.09 two branches back, where new version check was always failing.

my workaround was to go to System --> Update --> Update Settings, wait for red text indicates that it failed, change current branch from stable to other (which trigger a page refresh)

The check failed again, and then I put back Stable branch again, and that triggers a page refresh and it's now found and I can upgrade.
I had to do this at least on 4 appliances

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