A reboot seems to have solved the problem here… I had Sarg, Squid3 and a few 
others installed. I did notice that before the reboot, if I went into 
system/packages, I got a message saying packages where being installed…

The packages I have are:

Bandwidthd
Ntopng
OpenVPN client Export utility
Sarg
Snort
Squid3
Squidguard
TFTP

--Tiernan

From: List [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of compdoc
Sent: Wednesday 18 March 2015 19:24
To: 'pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [pfSense] "Packages are currently being reinstalled in the 
background." since last night... nothing showing on the console...

I updated to 2.2.1 yesterday without removing installed packages, and after the 
reboot it took only a few minutes to install them (just snort, pfblockerng, and 
squid) on a AMD 5350 AM1 apu.

There was one problem - the webgui stopped responding afterwards, and I 
rebooted pfSense one more time with ssh to make it work again.

Been running fine ever since. But had it not, I would have reinstalled from 
scratch and restored a backup.


From: List [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Clough
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:15 PM
To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List
Subject: Re: [pfSense] "Packages are currently being reinstalled in the 
background." since last night... nothing showing on the console...

The documentation for updating pfSense firmware recommends noting and removing 
all installed packages before updating[1]. Then, after a successful update, 
reinstall the packages that were noted. I have had very good success using this 
method however, I updated to 2.2.1 last night without removing installed 
packages and after the reboot it took about 2 hours for my Intel(R) Atom(TM) 
CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz with a 7200RPM pfSenseMirror to complete the package 
re-installation. Other than a little hiccup with Sarg; all is well. I would, if 
you can, just wait it out.

[1] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Upgrade_Guide

Ryan Clough
Information Systems
Decision Sciences International 
Corporation<http://www.decisionsciencescorp.com/>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Tiernan OToole 
<tier...@tiernanotoole.ie<mailto:tier...@tiernanotoole.ie>> wrote:
Morning all.

Since i like being on the "bleeding edge" of technology, as soon as the new 
version of PFSense 2.2.1 was released yesterday, i downloaded and installed it 
on my existing 2.2 box. I told it to do a full backup before installing, 
waiting about 10 min and heard my server reboot (2 or 3 beeps, then lots of 
fans, then about 5 min later the usual PFSense "boot" charms).

I was looking at the boot sequence over KVMoIP and it started to install 
packages in the background. this took another 10 min... and all was good.

This morning i logged into the box (both over kvm and web interface) and the 
web gives me the following notice:

Packages are currently being reinstalled in the background.
Do not make changes in the GUI until this is complete.

but there is nothing showing on the console... Im not in the house currently, 
so rebooting is iffy (and i wont have KVM access if i do reboot). is it a good 
idea to reboot if this shows? any idea whats going on here?

Thanks.

--Tiernan



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