Bug #4143
closed
After firmware upgrade it keeps saying "Packages are currently being reinstalled in the background." for no apparent reason.
Added by Pi Ba over 9 years ago.
Updated over 9 years ago.
Affected Architecture:
All
Description
After firmware upgrade it keeps saying "Packages are currently being reinstalled in the background." for no apparent reason.
I believe this is for example the case when a package requires some .inc file but does not include it properly, that can stop/crash php when going through the firmware upgrade procedure while reinstalling packages.
Adding some error logging can help find the reason this kind of issues.
I think this for example this would help find such issues: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1386 , if some tweaking is needed to log less 'noise' thats possible, though avoiding 'warnings' about deprecated and bad code might not be bad in the long run.. At least it would log the errors in most these cases.
- Category changed from Logging to Package System
- Status changed from New to Confirmed
- Affected Version changed from 2.1.5 to All
there have always been some circumstances with some packages where that happens. additional comment on the pull request.
- Assignee set to Chris Buechler
- Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
the original had a couple issues that I noted as comments in the comment, and Renato added one there as well. I implemented more or less what you submitted, just cleaned up a bit to reflect those comments. Thanks!
This should be resolved.
The commit that was done been commented out in the code now.. Which would reopen this issue.
Would it be an option to allow for logging ($error['type'] == E_ERROR) for 2.2 , that should cut down on the amount of not so important logging generated.. and still log why a crashing package installation (for example 'tinc') happens?
Can reproduce the lack of error logging that example by running from a dev-php-shell on the console/ssh this code:
include_once('pkg-utils.inc');
$pkgtodo['name'] = 'tinc';
log_error(gettext("Uninstalling package") . " {$pkgtodo['name']}");
uninstall_package($pkgtodo['name']);
log_error(gettext("Finished uninstalling package") . " {$pkgtodo['name']}");
log_error(gettext("Reinstalling package") . " {$pkgtodo['name']}");
install_package($pkgtodo['name'], '', true);
log_error(gettext("Finished installing package") . " {$pkgtodo['name']}");
exec
Or by installing 'tinc' package from gui and performing a firmware upgrade, during the upgrade it fails..
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