Upgrading from FreeNAS 9.3

[varin]

I just restarted my FreeNAS from several years ago and I'm running in to issues trying to upgrade it. Going to the Update tab through the UI results in a blank screen.
I attempted to use netcli to perform the update which resulted in this message being logged.
Apr 21 11:49:07 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Configuration:567] Unable to load http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/None/ChangeLog.txt: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Obviously something is wrong with the None in the url, but I'm not sure where that value gets loaded from. The network appears to be configured correctly and I can ping places on the internet. And the Plex jail does appear to be working. I can load Plex and even play content. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get update working?

 

[varin]

I just found the freenas-update command and that failed as well.
This was my console output

Code:

[root@freenas] ~# freenas-update -v check
TryGetNetworkFile(http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE/LATEST)
Unable to load http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE/LATEST: <urlopen error [Errno 8] hostname nor servname provided, or not known>
Could not get latest manifest file for train FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE
Unable to find latest manifest for train FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE
Possibly with no network, cached update looks good
Strangely, DownloadUpdate says there updates, but PendingUpdates says otherwise
[root@freenas] ~# freenas-update update
TryGetNetworkFile(http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE/LATEST)
Unable to load http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE/LATEST: <urlopen error [Errno 8] hostname nor servname provided, or not known>
Could not get latest manifest file for train FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE
Unable to find latest manifest for train FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE
Possibly with no network, cached update looks good

I got this in the logs

Code:

]Apr 21 12:22:58 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Configuration:567] Unable to load http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE/LATEST: <urlopen error [Errno 8
] hostname nor servname provided, or not known>
Apr 21 12:22:58 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Update:664] Unable to find latest manifest for train None
Apr 21 12:22:58 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Configuration:567] Unable to load https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem: <urlopen error [Errno 8] hostname nor
servname provided, or not known>
Apr 21 12:22:58 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Manifest:387] Could not get CRL file https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem
Apr 21 12:23:04 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Configuration:567] Unable to load https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem: <urlopen error [Errno 8] hostname nor
servname provided, or not known>
Apr 21 12:23:04 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Manifest:387] Could not get CRL file https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem
Apr 21 12:23:09 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Configuration:567] Unable to load https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem: <urlopen error [Errno 8] hostname nor
servname provided, or not known>
Apr 21 12:23:09 freenas netcli: [freenasOS.Manifest:387] Could not get CRL file https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem

 

[varin]

Looks like my issue was just the DNS of 8.8.8.8 wasn't working. I updated that and was about to upgrade from my 2015 version 9.3 to the LATEST 9.3. At the 9.3 latest I still had the issue of not being able to see anything on the Update screen. After checking out this bug https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/16871 I was able to successfully switch my train to 9.10.

At the 9.10 version the Update page was working again and I'm able to update to TrueNAS 12.0-Stable.