@stephenw10 Which means that valid USB boot drive with the good firmware etc doesn't auto boot except if the admin interrupts the boot process from the console, and types in the command 'run usbrecovery' .... So, I was wrong. Some manual manipulations are needed then. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1100/reinstall-pfsense.html is clear about it.

@iantmarshall Don’t worry, I got caught in Captcha hell last weekend and couldn’t’ even download the thing, and ended up giving up in disgust and finally managing to track down a direct link to the images to do it manually. It is ridiculous. If someone can’t manage to download an image and create their own USB stick I don’t think they’re the market for pfSense quite frankly.

It appears to be choking on this function: /* override php memory limit */ $php_memory_limit = config_get_path('system/php_memory_limit', 0); if (($php_memory_limit >= 128) && ($php_memory_limit <= get_php_max_memory())) { ini_set("memory_limit", config_get_path('system/php_memory_limit') . "M"); } Do you have a custom php memory size set in System > Advanced > Misc?

Great result!

I finished the upgrade. I had to use the dropdown box and go from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1. After that update completed I went to 2.7.2, It would not allow an update from 2.7.0 to 2.7.2. After the update to 2.7.1 the admin screen still said I was on the current release. Otherwise it went smoothly and quickly. The processor in the Hunsn (passmark about 2400) made it fly relative to my older slower pcs from the past. Thanks.

Opened a bug to track it: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15533 Feel free to add comments.

If you download the Net Installer from the store you should currently get: pfSense-plus-installer-24.02-BETA2-aarch64-20240312-0600 That will install 24.03-release.

Yes I would probably just reinstall 24.03 clean. However you may be able to upgrade from there by setting the ranch back to 22.05 and then force reinstalling the key packages: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/upgrades.html#upgrade-not-offered-library-errors

@provels You didn’t get sent through the store?

@stephenw10 thank you, helped me today on one of the customers 2100 box.

Just renumber the LAN for the install to any unused subnet. Or even just unassign the LAN. You only need the WAN interface to access the pkg servers.

@stephenw10 perfect, thank you :)

@Cergo said in very slow upgrading: then after a reboot the unpacking and installation is very slow. Hmm, that seems odd. Hard to see how that could be anything but a drive issue. Unless maybe it's a decompression issue, trying to use some hardware offloading that isn't correctly supported.

The Net Installer can install CE. It will offer that if you don't have current eligibility for Plus. For reference if you're stuck on 2.7.0 it's usually because of the cert issue. Running: certctl rehash will allow it to see 2.7.2. Steve

@stephenw10 I'm showing normal behaviour now as well.

@areckethennu said in 23.09.1 to 24.03_1: No Internet Afterwards: several certificates it skipped as untrusted FWIW I think that's "normal"...have seen that on all the routers I've updated so far. It's noticeable because it seems to take a while to work through them...at least I don't recall seeing that on any previous update. re: Config History, note pfBlocker updates the config file with a timestamp at every cron interval so it can pretty quickly push out history if it runs at the default of hourly.

@stephenw10 Yes, thanks, I already added it

Ah, cool.

Hmm, well I'm not aware of any specific issue with that CPU platform. Could be something BIOS specific. I would try a clean 2.7.2 install and see if it fails the same way.