Bug #7345: nanobsd upgrades still fail bacause of lacking resolv.conf - pfSense - pfSense bugtracker

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Bug #7345

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nanobsd upgrades still fail bacause of lacking resolv.conf

Added by Andrew Hotlab almost 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Renato Botelho

Category:

Upgrade

Target version:

2.3.4

Start date:

03/02/2017

Due date:

% Done:

80%

Estimated time:

Plus Target Version:

Release Notes:

Affected Version:

2.3.x

Affected Architecture:

All

Description

As I wrote in a comment to the closed bug #6557, the upgrade procedure still fails, because copying the source file of a symlink over the symlink itself does not work. The command exits with this error:
"cp: /var/etc/resolv.conf and /tmp/nanobsd_upgrade/etc/resolv.conf are identical (not copied)".

Thus we need first remove the symlink. I propose the attached patch to pfSense-upgrade script, which works for me.

Files

pfSense-upgrade.patch.txt (459 Bytes) pfSense-upgrade.patch.txt

Andrew Hotlab, 03/02/2017 05:33 PM

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Updated by Brett Keller almost 8 years ago

I also ran into this issue, which broke my ability to update my NanoBSD 2.3.2_1 box to 2.3.3_1. The box in question runs neither unbound nor dnsmasq, as we have a separate DNS server on the LAN, so the fallback DNS calls to localhost mentioned in bug #6557 were failing after very long timeouts:

>>> Mounting second partition to run upgrade... done.
>>> Copying resolv.conf to upgrade partition... done.
>>> Downloading upgrade packages... 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
Unable to update repository pfSense
All repositories are up-to-date.
pkg: Repository pfSense-core cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required
pkg: Repository pfSense cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required
Checking for upgrades (0 candidates): . done
Processing candidates (0 candidates): . done
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.
>>> Upgrading pfSense kernel... 
pkg: Repository pfSense-core cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required
pkg: Repository pfSense cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required
pkg: No packages available to upgrade matching 'pfSense-kernel-pfSense' have been found in the repositories
>>> Locking package pfSense-kernel-pfSense... done.
Failed

Thanks to Andrew Hotlab for identifying the root cause! This is the right fix, but I had to tweak your patch slightly because your call to _exec() was missing an argument for _msg, and _exec() makes the assumption that the second argument will always be the log message, no matter what.

I tested my tweaked version of your patch on the box I had that was suffering from this issue, and the update was able to complete successfully. I've submitted pull request #332 on GitHub, so hopefully this should get merged and fixed shortly.

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