Help! Unable to upgrade to 23.7. Process hangs.

[patrick3000]

I cannot upgrade to 23.7. When I check for updates, OPNSense gets stuck checking for updates and hangs. I've tried it from three different client systems, and have also rebooted the OPNSense server. I've also tried updating from the console but that only updates, not upgrades.

Does anyone know if there is a way out of this? I don't want to reinstall and restore from a config file because my setup is complex and I don't want to take the risk that something will go wrong.

Here is the output when I check for updates, which as noted gets stuck at this point:


***GOT REQUEST TO CHECK FOR UPDATES***
Currently running OPNsense 23.1.9 at Tue Aug  1 10:10:06 CDT 2023
Fetching changelog information, please wait... fetch: transfer timed out
fetch: /usr/local/opnsense/changelog/changelog.txz appears to be truncated: 0/284144 bytes
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching packagesite.pkg: .......... done
Processing entries: .......... done
OPNsense repository update completed. 835 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (83 candidates): .......... done
Processing candidates (83 candidates): ..... done
The following 43 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
   libltdl: 2.4.7
   libmcrypt: 2.5.8_3
   php81-pear: 1.10.13
   php81-pear-Crypt_CHAP: 1.5.0_1
   php81-pecl-mcrypt: 1.0.6

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
   curl: 8.1.1 -> 8.1.2
   ddclient-devel: 3.10.0_1 -> 3.10.0_3
   easy-rsa: 3.1.4 -> 3.1.5
   krb5: 1.20.1 -> 1.21
   nettle: 3.9 -> 3.9.1
   nss: 3.89.1 -> 3.90
   ntp: 4.2.8p15_5 -> 4.2.8p17
   openssh-portable: 9.3.p1,1 -> 9.3.p2,1
   openssl: 1.1.1t_2,1 -> 1.1.1u,1
   openvpn: 2.6.4 -> 2.6.5
   opnsense: 23.1.9 -> 23.1.11_1
   opnsense-update: 23.1.8 -> 23.1.11
   pftop: 0.8_2 -> 0.8_4
   php81: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-ctype: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-curl: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-dom: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-filter: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-gettext: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-ldap: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-mbstring: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-pdo: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-phalcon: 5.2.1 -> 5.2.2
   php81-session: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-simplexml: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-sockets: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-sqlite3: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-xml: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   php81-zlib: 8.1.19 -> 8.1.20
   py39-markupsafe: 2.1.2 -> 2.1.3
   py39-pandas: 2.0.1_1,1 -> 2.0.2,1
   py39-setuptools: 63.1.0 -> 63.1.0_1
   py39-sqlite3: 3.9.16_7 -> 3.9.17_7
   py39-ujson: 5.7.0 -> 5.8.0
   python39: 3.9.16_2 -> 3.9.17
   squid: 5.8 -> 5.9
   strongswan: 5.9.10_1 -> 5.9.10_2
   suricata: 6.0.12 -> 6.0.13

Number of packages to be installed: 5
Number of packages to be upgraded: 38

The process will require 5 MiB more space.
58 MiB to be downloaded.

[newsense]

Try changing the mirror.

Is IPv6 used at all ?

[patrick3000]

Changing the mirror had no effect except that, in addition to the status information I posted, it now gives the following error message:

"pkg: Repository OPNsense has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database."

I searched on this and can see that others have gotten this error when upgrading to past versions, but I didn't find a solution.

Also, I do not use IPV6.

[patrick3000]

For the record, this issue has now been resolved in a separate thread here: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=35154.0