Unable To Upgrade pfSense 2.7.0 To 2.7.2

This post was originally published on December 17, 2023
The latest update to this post was made 9 months ago.

Issue

When upgrading from pfSense 2.7.0 to 2.7.2 you may encounter the following error(s) from the console or web GUI:

ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg remote version
>>> Updating repositories metadata…
Updating PfSense-core repository catalogue…
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue…
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
pkg-static: An error occured while fetching package
Unable to update repository pfSense
Error updating repositories!
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-upgrade remote version
ERROR: It was not possible to determine pfSense-upgrade remote version
>>> Upgrading pfSense-upgrade… failed.

Cause/Fix

Problems with the certificate store in 2.7.0 can cause this.  Run the following command from the pfSense shell:

certctl rehash

You can then exit the shell and attempt the upgrade again.

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