Can't udate from core 159 to core 172

Getting Started with IPFire Updates Trouble
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hello all,

I’m trying to update my ipfire from core 159 to 172.

I’ve clicked the notice about update link on the “home” page, clicked the upgrade icon under updates, I see it download and then nothing.

I SSH’ed into the firewall, and performed a “pakfire upgrade”, things appeared to be upgrading, and then this error:

DOWNLOAD ERROR: The downloaded file (ipfire/pakfire2/2.27-x86_64/meta/meta-core-upgrade-169) wasn’t verified by IPFire.org. Sorry

not sure how to resolve this.

any ideas what to look for?

cheers,
–nixit

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That’s quite a long upgrade chain; 159 was released August 18, 2021.

You might suffer from a too small /boot partition due to the kernel growing regardless of the exact error you are seeing. In these cases, a backup and reinstall is usually needed. I personally have a couple of 162 systems that will need complete reinstalls due to this. Remember to also back up package settings, if you have any. A reinstall will likely be much faster than trying to fix the error.

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thanx for the quick reply, and I was about to do that, when I decided to reboot and try again and viola, it worked.

I honestly didn’t think it was that long since the last upgrade. gonna keep an eye on that closer in the future. :slight_smile:
–nixit

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