[Solved (a hard way)] Update to 25.7.6 failed

[razamatan]

thank you so much for this thread, ednt.  i had the same issue with a partially updated system.  i followed the steps of faking out the opnsense-auth file, bringing up the network, creating the pkg/.../OPNsense.conf file, and finally "pkg install opnsense".

[razamatan]

interesting issue.  when i ran "cleanup" from the audit option under firmware, the system ended up "cleaning up" the entire system.  i had to recover again.  it seems as though recovering this way doesn't remember what packages are needed in the base system.  how can i fix this going forward?

[BrandyWine]

The core package is missing and I suspect this is because the new package manager screws up by removing the core package early and then failing on some dependency before putting the core package back, see https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49423.0


Cheers,
Franco

After the oddity I posted in my recent thread, things to me do appear as fully updated without doing anything manually.

# pkg upgrade
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
OPNsense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (101 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (101 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.