Hallo IP-Fire Friends
i have IPfire noch 8 years in use. Now i have a problem my webgui ask me i have version: IPFire 2.23 (x86_64) - Core Update 131
if i want update over the webgui under the point ipfire->pakfire its down work. i have login over ssh and press:
pakfire update --force → OK
pakfire upgrade → FAIL with message:
CORE UPGR: Upgrading from release 123 to 141
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-124.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-125.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-126.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-127.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-128.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-129.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-130.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
PAKFIRE UPGR: core-upgrade-124: Decrypting…
DOWNLOAD ERROR: There was no chance to get the file “paks/core-upgrade-2.21-124.ipfire” from any available server.
May be you should run “pakfire update” to get some new servers.
sh: /opt/pakfire/cache/core-upgrade-2.21-124.ipfire: No such file or directory
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
i dont understand this. my gui ask me i’m version 131 but the upgrade think that i user 124 ?!
Have you any Ideas ? Sorry for my bad english: school was long ago
About your problem, this is what I would do if I were in your place: I would backup your configuration using the web Interface, reinstall IPFire from scratch, restore the backup.
pay attention to any non standard modification you did to your system and add the files to the backup, as explained in the wiki. Also you might need to fix the graphs, as described here: wiki.ipfire.org - Migrate to new hardware
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it is easy to do and you really need to remove as much friction as possible to the task of understanding what you need, If you want to have a chance of receiving an answer.
first, welcome to the IPFire community. Glad to see you decide to update this installation.
Pakfire tries to fetch updates from our mirror servers, which are hosted by 3rd parties (mostly universities at the time of writing). We rely on their courtesy to provide disk space and bandwidth.
Basically, there are two flavours of mirroring IPFire: Either every Core Update we ever released, or just the latest one (see here for technical details). I have no oversight how many of these mirrors are keeping the full share, but it looks like those your Pakfire picked don’t.
This explains the download errors, but not the version difference.
Could you please post the output of these commands?
cat /etc/os-release
cat /opt/pakfire/db/core/mine
For the records: Core Update 124 (assuming this is the version you actually run) was released on October 15, 2018. Since, things like the Linux kernel we ship got bigger and bigger, eventually requiring a bigger /boot partition, which cannot be expanded during an upgrade. Therefore, please be mentally prepared to run a clean installation eventually.
Im not sure which is the minimal IPFire version that can still upgraded but our servers now force https encryption and old perl versions don’t support this. Do a fresh install and if your hardware not support x86_64 you should upgrade it too because i686 is end of life soon. (We wil drop the support 2022)
