Hi Adolf,

Pakfire always automatically reinstalls the current release before updating if you are in the testing branch. See this function in the Pakfire code:
https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=blob;f=src/pakfire/lib/functions.pl;h=d4e338f23ae8ae97d6f18c6d8890d13463dc5d30;hb=refs/heads/next#l762

But unfortunately this is all I can contribute, my test system updated to 168 without problems!

Best regards
Leo

Am 11.05.2022 um 15:11 schrieb Adolf Belka:
> Hi All,
>
> I have tried to update my Core Update 167 vm machine three times now (using a clone) and have had several problems so I thought I would outline what has happened for further thoughts.
>
> Normally my updates go without any real problems. This is the first time where this is not the case.
>
>
> First try:-
>
> After running the update, which went quite quickly, the bottom of the screen had
>
> Core Update 167 Development Build: master/c22d834c
>
> I couldn't remember if this is what is expected or not for Testing releases.
>
> Rebooted the vm and on booting a large number of error messages scrolled across the console screen. My Virtualbox terminal for IPFire has no scroll capability so I can only write on things I saw as they flew past or what was on the screen when it stopped.
>
> Lots of ipset restore error but went by too fast to get more detail.
>
> Tried to access via the WUI and no access. Tried via SSH and no access.
>
> Checked the red0 directory and there were no files present. Tried restarting red0 and got the following message
>
> starting
> DUID 00:04:70:........
> red0: interface not found
>
> So I ran ip address show and it came up with only the lo interface. No red0, green0, blue0 or orange0.
>
> Looked in bootlog and this was filled with around 4000 lines all the same
>
> Loading of module with unavailable key is rejected
>
>
> Second try:-
>
> This time running the update took over 10 mins.
>
> Noticed on the pakfire screen that it first ran a Core Update 167 upgrade then it ran the Core Update 168. My IPFire vm was definitely on Core Update 167.
>
> /opt/pakfire/db/core/mine contained 167 beforehand.
>
> Before doing the reboot I accessed via ssh and saw that in the /var/log/pakfire/ directory the update-core-upgrade-167 file has been updated as well as there being a 168. Both files had the same last modified date/time.
>
> Rebooted. This time everything came back up okay but the bottom of the screen now just said Core Update 167 and there was no update-core-upgrade-168 file in the pakfire directory and the 167 version was back to its date of Apr 28
>
> Repository was set back to Stable.
>
> Changed again to Testing and it said again that there was an update from 167 to 168.
>
> Before running the pakfire directory had the following
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.8K Mar 31 23:26 update-core-upgrade-166.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 323K Apr 28 09:47 update-core-upgrade-167.log
>
> After running it had
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.8K Mar 31 23:26 update-core-upgrade-166.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 604K May 11 13:24 update-core-upgrade-167.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  175 May 11 13:24 update-core-upgrade-168.log
>
> back to Core Update 167 Development Build: master/c22d834c at bottom of screen.
>
> Rebooted.
>
> All interfaces present. Pakfire under System Status: says Core-Update-Level: 168 and the bottom of the screen showed Core Update 167 Development Build: master/c22d834c
>
> /opt/pakfire/db/core/mine has 168 in it
>
> I checked the WIO wio.pl file that had a bug fix and it was as expected for CU168.
>
>
> Third try:-
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 323K Apr 28 09:47 update-core-upgrade-167.log
>
> Selected Testing and ran update from 167 to 168 which occurred very quickly.
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 604K May 11 14:00 update-core-upgrade-167.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  63K May 11 14:01 update-core-upgrade-168.log
>
> Here is the log file info for pakfire from messages.1.gz and messages which shows it downloading and upgrading CU167 first then doing CU168 as far as I can tell.
>
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.27.1-x86_64 started!
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: CORE INFO: core-list.db is 27 seconds old. - DEBUG: noforce
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: CORE UPGR: Upgrading from release 166 to 168
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: paks/core-upgrade-2.27-167.ipfire
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: 2 servers found in list
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: ipfire.earl-net.com (HTTPS) - File: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/core-upgrade-2.27-167.ipfire
> May 11 13:59:30 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/core-upgrade-2.27-167.ipfire has size of 71914825 bytes
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 200 - 200 OK
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: File received. Start checking signature...
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Signature of core-upgrade-2.27-167.ipfire is fine.
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD FINISHED: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/core-upgrade-2.27-167.ipfire
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: meta/meta-core-upgrade-168
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: 2 servers found in list
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: mirror1.ipfire.org (HTTPS) - File: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/meta/meta-core-upgrade-168
> May 11 13:59:32 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/meta/meta-core-upgrade-168 has size of 1804 bytes
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 200 - 200 OK
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: File received. Start checking signature...
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Signature of meta-core-upgrade-168 is fine.
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD FINISHED: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/meta/meta-core-upgrade-168
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: paks/core-upgrade-2.27-168.ipfire
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: 2 servers found in list
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: ipfire.earl-net.com (HTTPS) - File: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/core-upgrade-2.27-168.ipfire
> May 11 13:59:33 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/core-upgrade-2.27-168.ipfire has size of 34355484 bytes
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 200 - 200 OK
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: File received. Start checking signature...
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Signature of core-upgrade-2.27-168.ipfire is fine.
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD FINISHED: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/core-upgrade-2.27-168.ipfire
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-167: Decrypting...
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
> May 11 13:59:34 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT STARTED: core-upgrade-167
> May 11 13:59:35 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT FINISHED: core-upgrade-167 - Status: 0
> May 11 13:59:35 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-167: Upgrading files and running post-upgrading scripts...
> May 11 14:00:31 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
> May 11 14:00:31 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-167: Finished.
> May 11 14:00:31 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-168: Decrypting...
> May 11 14:00:31 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
> May 11 14:00:31 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT STARTED: core-upgrade-168
> May 11 14:00:32 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT FINISHED: core-upgrade-168 - Status: 0
> May 11 14:00:32 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-168: Upgrading files and running post-upgrading scripts...
>
>
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-168: Finished.
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: CORE INFO: core-list.db is 127 seconds old. - DEBUG: noforce
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE RESV: wio: Resolving dependencies...
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: We are going to install all packages listed above.
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: paks/wio-1.3.2-15.ipfire
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: 2 servers found in list
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: mirror1.ipfire.org (HTTPS) - File: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/wio-1.3.2-15.ipfire
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/wio-1.3.2-15.ipfire has size of 47216 bytes
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 200 - 200 OK
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: File received. Start checking signature...
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Signature of wio-1.3.2-15.ipfire is fine.
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD FINISHED: pakfire2/2.27.1-x86_64/paks/wio-1.3.2-15.ipfire
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: wio: Decrypting...
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT STARTED: wio
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT FINISHED: wio - Status: 0
> May 11 14:01:10 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: wio: Upgrading files and running post-upgrading scripts...
> May 11 14:01:11 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
> May 11 14:01:11 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE UPGR: wio: Finished.
> May 11 14:01:11 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Pakfire has finished. Closing.
>
> Rebooted
> Lots of ipset restore error but went by too fast to get more detail.
> Several repeats of the following two lines on the console screen:-
>
> iptables v1.8.7 (legacy): can't initialize iptables table `filter' : Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
>
>
> Only lo interface present. All other interfaces red0, green0, blue0, orange0 not present.
>
>
> I have given up at this point.
>
> I have kept the clones of all three attempts so if you need any additional info from logs or files just let me know.
>
> If this is something obviously wrong that I am doing, please let me know. If not then I will probably raise a bug on this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adolf.
>