Upgrade from 19.1 to 18.7.10

[Roger@Opnsense]

I clicked on the unlock to perform the upgrade from 18.7.10 to 19.1 and got the following message.

***GOT REQUEST TO UPGRADE: maj***
Fetching packages-19.1-OpenSSL-amd64.tar: .................................. done
Fetching base-19.1-amd64.txz: ............ done
Fetching kernel-19.1-amd64.txz: .............................................. failed, no signature found
***DONE***

At this point it seemed like there was no way to upgrade and so searching the forum I found:

• https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11199.0

Rather than remove the files suggested in the final post there, I mv'ed them out of the way and things looked promising. I had an upgrade button again and so I proceeded with the upgrade. All looked good, a few reboots, etc and the system was back up and functional.

Checking the versions now, though, things do not look right. The lobby dashboard now shows

Versions   OPNsense 18.7.10_4-amd64
FreeBSD    11.2-RELEASE-p8-HBSD
OpenSSL    1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018

And my upgrade screen shows what it did previously (That I am on 19.7.10) but only very briefly. After s second or two, It changes its mind and instead offers me the following upgrade options.

There are 2 updates available, total download size is 98.7MiB. This update requires a reboot.

Package Name   Current Version   New Version   Required Action
base           19.1              18.7.10       upgrade
kernel         19.1              18.7.10       upgrade

Given that things seem to be working fine but the state is looks confused, I am not sure what the safest path forward would be.

[Roger@Opnsense]

I have gone through this upgrade process quite a few times now and the kernel parts seem fine, but opnsense never makes it to new new version. I tried doing an update on the console instead and I see that the issue may well be related to a package I have installed.

https://www.sunnyvalley.io/sensei

[franco]

Thanks for the screenshot. Third party repos will be required to be disabled in the next upgrade (19.7 and up).

For now you can fix this via info found here:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9521.msg51688#msg51688


Cheers,
Franco

[Roger@Opnsense]

Thanks Franco! I am no longer stuck on 18.7. Running that looked like it was bumping me to 19.1.3 and that is what my Dashboard reports too after completion, and my change log. It seemed that there were still some upgrades available though which were for 19.1.2. That did not seem to make sense, but I have applied everything and now it is running happily with dashboard reporting 19.1.3 and audit reporting 19.1.2 and no updates available. Hopefully I didn't break anything and versions will smooth out at the release following 19.1.3

[franco]

Kernel and base are not always issued so they are both still at 19.1.2. That's perfectly normal although it looks a bit strange when you were on 19.1.3 already but you didn't take the usual route. It was the shortcut and so the system tries to keep up with you.


Cheers,
Franco

[Roger@Opnsense]

Cool, thanks for the explanation/reassurance!