{"id":386,"date":"2021-01-13T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/?p=386"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:30:36","slug":"how-to-fix-pfsense-package-update-stuck-at-writing-configuration-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"How to: Fix pfSense package update stuck at \u201cWriting configuration\u2026 done.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Temporary solution\/workaround<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Login to pfSense terminal or via SSH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Select 8 (Shell), press Enter key to bring up shell if via SSH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Execute following command to kill the package installation process<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">killall -9 pkg-static<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Usually, after this command, we can see the update is done (Not guaranteed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Usually it\u2019s probably better to reinstall the pfSense system if you have encountered this problem, otherwise chances are, you will encounter the same problem next time when updating\/installing\/uninstalling the same package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other related fixes (May or may not help to fix this issue)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>(Best way to fix this issue: Wait for the next or next next release which will fix this issue, developers are aware of it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If we want to fix this issue for future updates, we can try following command<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warning<\/strong>: Make sure only execute following upgrade command when down time is allowed (Just in case)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">killall -9 pkg-static\npkg-static upgrade -f<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If we want to fix corrupted pfSense upgrade (update check failed, update does not complete), we can execute following command<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">pkg install -y pfSense-upgrade<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary solution\/workaround 1 Login to pfSense terminal or via SSH 2 Select 8 (Shell), press Enter key to bring up shell if via SSH 3 Execute following command to kill the package installation process killall -9 pkg-static Note: Usually, after this command, we can see the update is done (Not guaranteed) Note: Usually it\u2019s probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaxowareti.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}