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 12 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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