@ghc88 The server-side issue appears to be transient. I had your same experience on a CE box today. And it all seems to now be resolved at this point (at least for my system in this moment) without any harm nor foul. I would strongly suggest not making any more configuration changes related to any of this.

Ah, yeah that's an ugly error in 24.11 but should not prevent actually upgrading.

Clearing my browser cache did the trick. I'm OK now. Thanks to everyone for their feedback.

@mcury I'm not the one with the question ;) ... but the downside of the method of upgrading fom 2.7.2 is that the virtual machine/project gets bigger.

@mvikman Upvoted for the DL link.

@SteveITS thanks so much by the help. When I executed "certctl rehash" in Console, I can see the Update in the Branch 2.7.1 and 2.7.2. I updated from pfSense v2.7.0 to v2.7.2 and later form pfSense v2.7.2 to v2.8.1 without nay problem. Thanks so much again.

@stephenw10 Problem solved. I had to select the disk with the spacebar. In all menus before, i used enter to continue.

said in netgate-installer.iso.gz has no ISO file - only folder: @stephenw10 said in netgate-installer.iso.gz has no ISO file - only folder: Hmm, weird. How is the DVD drive attached on that? I used a 4K UHD capable BD drive connected via USB for the latest install. So in order to satisfy my curiosity, I connected the UHD BD drive to another mini and gave it a try. This time I got to the install menu. The previous tries were with a standard BD drive, which had made successful installations previously. This UHD drive is practically new with little mileage on it. So I can conclude that the ISO can work, which is good news if it gets to the point that using old version ISOs such as the 2.7.2 on hand won't do a scratch install and update to the current version. Until then I think I'll stick with that ISO.

I noticed that the kea2unbound version shipped with pfsense 2.8.1 equals this commit in the pfsense git repository Bring in Kea enhancements from Plus (marcos-ng comitted on Mar 26) After updating the version of /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound with this version: kea2unbound: use the new unbound fast-reload feature in v1.23 (rcmcdonald91 committed on Jul 2) the error seems to be gone. Steps # downlaod kea2unbound Commit 146391a curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/146391aa0c5c25348f8f6fa36120332ccbb74ce0/src/usr/local/bin/kea2unbound -o ~/kea2unbound # set permissions chmod +x ~/kea2unbound # backup previous version cp /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound ~/kea2unbound.bak_RELEASE_2.8.1 # overwrite version mv ~/kea2unbound /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound

@stephenw10 curious as to what your testing will reveal. keep me posted!

If you registered the NDI for plus it will offer that. But you can force enable the CE repos from the advanced menu in the first installer screen. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-walkthrough.html#advanced-options

@f.meunier said in 2.7.2 to 2.8.1 : GUI tells 2.8.1 available but no "branch" selection available: From the shell, pfSense-upgrade -C tells me ">>> Updating repositories metadata... done. 2.8.1 version of pfSense is available" but how can I tell it to fetch and install v2.8.1 ? Running pfSense-upgrade -C only checks if an upgrade is available. So what you see there is correct. Just run pfSense-upgrade and it should offer you the upgrade.

@stephenw10 I'm baffled too - unless there was some chicken-and-egg problem where it didn't know the repo to write because there was no repo to write etc. I thought I'd seen all the different ways a problem could manifest in the update system. Silly me :) Thanks, everyone!

Always appreciated!

Mmm, there's no mouse in the Net Installer (or any installer). Technically it's not a GUI it's a TUI so it's keyboard only.