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Diagnostics - Backup/Restore - Clear Package Lock button.

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Kill Bill wrote:

Diagnostics - Backup/Restore - Clear Package Lock button.

(Certainly not going to download "screenshots" in PDF.)

1. Thanks! Didn't know about that.

2. Do you have a better way to capture console output from VGA? Would you prefer 15 individual images?

Adam Thompson wrote:

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Can't upload it anyway, max file size is 5MB and there's 5.2MB of screenshots.
They're mostly notable for the fact that there are no errors reported during package upgrades, so I can't tell what failed - and thus can't submit a more useful bug report.

Probably not worth diagnosing at this point (and certainly not in a discussion here on redmine) -- the package system is being gutted and rebuilt for 2.3, unlikely to be anything worth looking at now.

I can confirm that only some of the packages got reinstalled, despite the lack of any error message.

https://forum.pfsense.org/ -> there. (And certainly absolutely NOONE wants a collection of screenshots in huge PDF.)

For example, this pull request makes some package file download timeouts bigger and improves a bit of error handling. Something like that would be an improvement.
But as Jimp said, unless there is a reasonable way to repeat and diagnose the exact issue you have experienced, then it is probably better to get the new package stuff in 2.3 and then work hard on debugging that (or maybe the squadron of pigs will get off the ground and the new package code will work perfectly).