It's absurd to find ISPs still supplying devices with fixed rate ports like it's 1998! But.... ISPs what can you do. So, yes, if the ISP modem/router is set to fixed speed and duplex you will need to configured whatever is connected to it to match that. So in pfSense or in the switch if you have that in between. What media options are you offered in ifconfig -vvm igb0?

Hmm, what sort of tunnel? Is it somehow trying to pass the upgrade traffic across it?

@andres-asm if I read it correctly you're running pfSense in a VM on Proxmox (8 or 9?) with EFI. What 'Machine' are you using on Proxmox, 'Default (i440fx) or 'q35'? There is a thread about issues with pfSense running on Proxmox with UEFI: After upgrade 24.03 to 24.11 reboot hangs at start @ 0xffffff..... The root cause is not yet known.

Hmm, you added that cronjob yourself? Any particular reason? Do you have an url aliases with a large number of entries?

Mmm, if this is something more general I'd love to pin it down. Can't find the steps to replicate it again now though. I'll keep trying...

@djp123 said in How the heck do I actually install CE 2.8?: the only "purchase" choice for a memstick image is "Netgate appliance". You aren't shown the other options? image: [image: 1758291449972-eb4cf63a-adff-4d7f-989b-fc3f40445de6-image.png] Or if you're asking which to use, you can burn the ISO to a USB stick. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/prepare-installer-media.html

@w0w Thank you!

Hmm, that second output is correct. Do you have Unbound running in the default config locally? What do you see if you try to resolve pfsense.org in Diag > DNS Lookup? How many servers? Are they all responding?

Will add just in case this is helpful for anyone: Installed with full installer CE 2.7.2 Edit gateway using a helper VM in the same subnet, subsequent config via helper machine. Set the routing option in gateway "Use non local Gateway" (below) Upgrade to CE 2.8.2 Set Outbound rules manually, automatic outbound rules seems not to work when gateway is out of scope. All works perfectly. Thanks for your help. [image: 1758009222438-7c4cb76a-a092-48ca-b95b-60f9174cd8d2-image.png]

@Gertjan said in Error when xxtrat PFSENSE ISO file: The error "0x80070522 " implies a lot. I put all my bets on "Microsoft Windows" ^^ You are probably right, not seen any for a long time ... not using the big W.

One other thing I also did was cp libmd.so.6 to libmd.so.7 to see if I could get pkg to work, and it did work. I don’t think it made a difference in the end, but wanted to mention it. Also after the upgrade finished, it did overwrite that copy with the actual proper file.

@sandie Cleaning up boot environments also resolved this issue on a Netgate 4100. It would be great if they caught the issue and provided better error message, or remove old boot environments that are over a year old. Went from 1.9GB of free disk space to 4GB of usable space. for others seeing this issue. this output was during the clean up process, there were several more entries at the start, but weren't in my buffer anymore. [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on pfSense/ROOT/default 3.2G 1.3G 1.9G 40% / devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev pfSense/var 1.9G 3.5M 1.9G 0% /var pfSense/tmp 1.9G 888K 1.9G 0% /tmp pfSense/home 1.9G 96K 1.9G 0% /home pfSense/var/db 5.9G 4.0G 1.9G 68% /var/db pfSense/var/log 1.9G 4.1M 1.9G 0% /var/log pfSense/var/cache 1.9G 96K 1.9G 0% /var/cache pfSense/var/tmp 1.9G 112K 1.9G 0% /var/tmp pfSense/ROOT/default/cf 1.9G 1.7M 1.9G 0% /cf pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg 2.3G 402M 1.9G 17% /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg 1.9G 7.9M 1.9G 0% /var/db/pkg tmpfs 4.0M 140K 3.9M 3% /var/run devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /var/dhcpd [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: bectl list BE Active Mountpoint Space Created auto-default-20240314022141 - - 627M 2024-03-14 02:21 default NR / 5.01G 2025-09-13 14:18 default_20240413162830 - - 29.8M 2024-04-13 16:28 default_20240413162830_20240413162833 - - 532M 2023-05-22 16:08 default_20250913141802 - - 822M 2025-01-21 10:06 [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: bectl destroy default_20240413162830_20240413162833 [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: bectl list BE Active Mountpoint Space Created default NR / 4.07G 2025-09-13 14:18 default_20240413162830 - - 1.06G 2024-04-13 16:28 default_20250913141802 - - 822M 2025-01-21 10:06 [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on pfSense/ROOT/default 5.4G 1.3G 4.1G 24% / devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev pfSense/var 4.1G 3.5M 4.1G 0% /var pfSense/tmp 4.1G 240K 4.1G 0% /tmp pfSense/home 4.1G 96K 4.1G 0% /home pfSense/var/db 8.1G 4.0G 4.1G 50% /var/db pfSense/var/log 4.1G 4.1M 4.1G 0% /var/log pfSense/var/cache 4.1G 96K 4.1G 0% /var/cache pfSense/var/tmp 4.1G 112K 4.1G 0% /var/tmp pfSense/ROOT/default/cf 4.1G 1.7M 4.1G 0% /cf pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg 4.5G 402M 4.1G 9% /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg 4.1G 7.9M 4.1G 0% /var/db/pkg tmpfs 4.0M 140K 3.9M 3% /var/run devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /var/dhcpd/dev

fwiw, after checking a few other systems I am seeing this exact notice on several other 2.8.0 systems. Now I am geussing the above system had the notice before upgrading to 2.8.1.

Hmm, I agree. Let me see what we can do here.

Check for rogue repo files here: [2.8.1-RELEASE][admin@cedev-2.stevew.lan]/root: ls -ls /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ total 1 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25 Aug 28 17:10 FreeBSD.conf 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 55 Sep 5 12:02 pfSense.conf -> /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-0002.conf It's been a long while since I tried pf2ad but I'm pretty sure it has an install/uninstall script that should do it. Unless it's completely broken!

Everything should be back to normal now for IPv6 connectivity, there was an upstream issue that's been resolved.