Tried to update a pfsense box from RC1 to RC3, but the mirror I looked at only had pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-RC3-i386-20110627-2101.tgz (for some reason, it was a pfsense.org/ URL) so I manually installed that because the firmware updater only wanted to upgrade to either nothing or the latest snapshot.
It seems I might have accidentally grabbed the snapshot though. After automatic reboot the GUI sits at "packages are reinstalled in the background" forever. How can I recover from that? The GUI package manager is inaccessible. I noticed ntop now fails with Thu Jun 30 11:55:11 2011 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Thu Jun 30 11:55:11 2011 Initializing gdbm databases Thu Jun 30 11:55:11 2011 **ERROR** ....open of /var/db/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: Can't be writer pkg_delete ntop says "not installed" because it's a pfsense package, not a freebsd one. I installed pfsense packages ntop, squid, squidguard, vnstat2, bandwidthd, nut, darkstat and a few others, but none noted as problematic in the pfsense forum. I installed some freebsd packages as well but don't expect any of them to interfere with pfsense: joe, rsync and their dependencies. pkg_info gives a long list but it looks like it's from pfsense packages. System log gives nothing. Accessing darkstat gives no response now. Re-installation is an option, but I wanted to report the problem and I'm interested to learn if this is fixable. Thanks for any suggestions, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
