opnsense-revert opnsense fails

[Greelan]

Weird problem. I've been experimenting with some patches, and have routinely successfully reverted them by "opnsense-revert opnsense".

But on the latest try, it is stuck at ">>> Invoking update script 'refresh.sh'"

Previously I interrupted the script at this point and then tried again, but it complained that the OPNsense package repo conf was not available. So I copied that back from the sample, but the script still gets stuck.

Any tips how to fix this?

[Greelan]

I've managed to deal with that - that wasn't fun.

It appears that when I had to abort opnsense-revert because it hung, the FreeBSD repo was somehow enabled. Then when I ran opnsense-revert again, pkg was updated to the FreeBSD version (2.5.1), which obviously led to some conflicts.

I had to go through a process of disabling the repo, deleting the pkg database, and force reinstalling OPNsense. Then checking there weren't any rogue packages on the system from the FreeBSD repo.

Ugh.

[Greelan]

FWIW, it seems that the original "hung" state of opnsense-revert was caused by a file lock on config.xml by configd, which prevented run_migrations.php from acquiring it

[franco]

If you had FreeBSD repo enabled you have bigger fish to fry because it upgraded pkg to an incompatible version.


Cheers,
Franco

[Greelan]

Yes, as I said. It was not me who enabled it though. This only occurred when I had to abort the opnsense-revert script. Somehow that caused the OPNsense repo to be disabled and the FreeBSD repo to be enabled