List plugins and updates broken???

[Tim1962]

Without knowingly changing anything (much at all actually apart from a VM snapshot rollback) I've found for the last 2 days (or so) I can't get a list of plugins from the gui or check for updates on the FreeNAS update page

This in the plugin page console report

Sep 30 19:08:00 freenas syslog-ng[1450]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/dev/console', error='Device not configured (6)'

and this if I check for FreeNAS updates

urlopen (errno 61) Connection refused

On a pretty stock 11-U2 install

THis from traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1318, in do_open
encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1239, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1285, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1234, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1026, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 964, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 936, in connect
(self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/socket.py", line 722, in create_connection
raise err
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/socket.py", line 713, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./freenasUI/system/views.py", line 1424, in update_check
train=updateobj.get_train(),
File "./freenasUI/system/models.py", line 616, in get_train
trains = conf.AvailableTrains() or []
File "/usr/local/lib/freenasOS/Configuration.py", line 1064, in AvailableTrains
fileref = self.TryGetNetworkFile(file=TRAIN_FILE, reason="FetchTrains")
File "/usr/local/lib/freenasOS/Configuration.py", line 787, in TryGetNetworkFile
raise url_exc
File "/usr/local/lib/freenasOS/Configuration.py", line 761, in TryGetNetworkFile
furl = opener.open(req, timeout=30)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 526, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 544, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1346, in http_open
return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1320, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>


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[Tim1962]

In answer to my own post it looks like this error has occurred and been bug reported over the last 1-2yrs on various versions. No-one incl devs have described (google) a specific solution.
Therefore I rolled back by about 2weeks to 11u2, and manually upgraded to 11u4 (rather than using existing U4 ) and all seemed well. Only issue I needed to reconfigure a VM that wasn't there and some cron jobs