After a lot of struggle this was my solution;

It seems a static ip in the 192.168.1.x range is restricted so I changed the ip address of my isp router to 192.168.13.x.

Powered off my pfsense1100 booted with usb (only the righter slot works) and pressed the [y] button a couple of times to prevent autoboot. Then I started the ‘recovery’ instead of ‘install’. And in the recovery I only opened the shell to ping a website and confirmed that my internetconnection was working. Then I typed exit to start with the install. And everything worked instantly.

During the install you get at 3 moments the feeling that everything is stuck. Especially during the last stage, -the real install- just wait for like 10 minutes.

Everything is running now.

The DNS problems resulting from a misconfigured gateway.

Thank's for your help.

Johannes

Now I did the following:
env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=yes pkg-static bootstrap -f
After that I went to System Update and it showed that I have a new Version available. Before that it always showed that 2.7.0 is the latest version for PfSense.
So I updated from 2.7.0 to the new stable version 2.7.2
After it upgraded and rebooted (it felt like it took much longer than usual)

But now it seems to work somehow. The package manager shows items and the crash report does not show up anymore. I think the issue is no more. (I hope)

@stephenw10 No, 2.5.2. I am afraid I am a little behind... not proud of it though...

Ah, then, yes, 2.7.0 is the last version that will see packages there. The dynamic repos will not pass branches to CE in Azure.

I would remove the zeek pkg then upgrade, then re-install it. The setting should remain.

There is only the EoL doc here: https://www.netgate.com/support/product-lifecycle

Other than that the release notes include devices that specifically cannot run that version. For example the SG-1000 cannot run 23.01 or newer:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/23-01.html#errata-known-hardware-issues

That's the only specific device to date. The 3100 is EoL and at some point will become difficult/impossible to build for but it still runs 24.08 at this point. Some packages are no available for it as they no longer build.

@stephenw10 Ok that would have probably worked too, I had considered getting one of my older downloads to take care of it. Either way, I'm not complaining or don't mean to. It's a free product first of all and second of all, if netgate owns it then they can do what they want with it and nobody is forcing me to download it. It's like if you own a house you should be able to paint it any color you want :) Personally I would paint it glow-in-the-dark haha.

Make sure the update repo branch is set the 23.05.1 still.

At the command line run: pkg-static -d update
See what errors are shown.

Steve

Check:
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf

See:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/freebsd-pkg-repo.html#installing-packages

Not if that is the case. eMMC has limited writes after which it will not allow further writes. It will fail and depending on the drive controller/firmware may at least fail gracefully to a read-only state.

It may not be that. Can you write to it with anything?

No you don't need to add a heatsink. We have never fitted one and don't see issues with heat. Unless maybe you have some drive that runs especially hot or is designed to use a heatsink. I'm not aware of any but someone may have produced one. 😉

Usually that's because you are not running ZFS so the boot environments are not applicable.
It's not an issue if you are running UFS, you can safely ignore it.

Steve

@stephenw10

Dang bifocals…..

When the installer fails it will drop you at a prompt but the network settings will still be in place. You can try to ping (or do any other tests) from there.

Could be a switch issue on the 3100. Try running at the command line: etherswitchcfg
That should return the switch config but if there are errors I would try re-flashing it.

@planedrop said in Community Edition will be renewed or cancelled ?:

it's not meant for production use cases.

That's completely new to me, where are you got this information?

Hmm, do you have anything smaller? Anything that's USB2?

When you see that EHCI time out error you should do a full power cycle before testing anything else.

@stephenw10

Yup. I figure out the problem once I got into the console. When I tried to access the tools menu, I received a fatal error telling me that there was not enough room to create a lock file. Deleted one of the BE files and I was off to the races.