Problem Upgrading: Manifest Not Found.

[ibarton]

I am having trouble upgrading with the following error;

FreeNAS-11.2-STABLE - Release Train for FreeNAS 11.2 [release]

Manifest could not be found!: Automatic update check failed. Please check
system network settings. I can connect to other networks OK from the terminal and DNS seems OK using Google servers.

After searching the forums, I tried checking the update from a terminal:

Code:

root@freenas:~ # freenas-update -v check
[freenasOS.Configuration:601] TryGetNetworkFile(['http://update-master.ixsystems.com/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-11.2-STABLE/LATEST'])
[urllib3.connectionpool:208] Starting new HTTP connection (1): update-master.ixsystems.com
[urllib3.connectionpool:396] http://update-master.ixsystems.com:80 "GET /FreeNAS/FreeNAS-11.2-STABLE/LATEST HTTP/1.1" 200 930
[freenasOS.Configuration:731] TryGetNetworkFile(['http://update-master.ixsystems.com/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-11.2-STABLE/LATEST']):  Read 930 bytes total
[freenas-update:195] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/freenas-update", line 169, in DoDownload
    rv = Update.DownloadUpdate(train, cache_dir, pkg_type=pkg_type, ignore_space=ignore_space)
  File "/usr/local/lib/freenasOS/Update.py", line 898, in DownloadUpdate
    latest_mani = conf.FindLatestManifest(train, require_signature=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/freenasOS/Configuration.py", line 1096, in FindLatestManifest
    rv.LoadFile(mani_file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/freenasOS/Manifest.py", line 230, in LoadFile
    self._dict = json.loads(file.read().decode('utf8'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte
Received exception during download phase, cannot update

 

[dlavigne]

Do you still get this error or was it a transient error?

 

[ibarton]

Still getting it after a few weeks.

 

[dlavigne]

If this is still an issue for you, please report it at bugs.ixsystems.com and post the issue number here.

 

[perriko]

I have been getting the same problem (Manifest could not be found) on FreeNAS-11.1-U7. When I try to report it at bugs.ixsystems.com I get error 500.

 

[dlavigne]

I have been getting the same problem (Manifest could not be found) on FreeNAS-11.1-U7. When I try to report it at bugs.ixsystems.com I get error 500.

Looks like there was an issue with the bug tracker but it is now back up.

 

[ibarton]

This solved itself! Got an email from my server this morning telling me there was an upgrade. Logged back in and installed it and after rebooting the problem was gone.