@empbilly: Okay. After many attempts and a lot of research I believe I got it.  ;D I executed the following commands in shell prompt: Re-create the pfsense repo; pkg-static update -f (Re)Install pfsense-base; pkg install pfSense-base After that webGui shows the update for me and I execute the last command in shell. pfSense-upgrade -d Now, everything works! Did not help me! Here my result: pkg: No package(s) matching pfSense-kernel-* Updating repositories metadata… Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue... pfSense-core repository is up-to-date. Updating pfSense repository catalogue... pfSense repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. ERROR: Unable to compare version of pfSense-repo Locking package pfSense-base... done. Locking package pkg... done. Any idea?

@mscdex: After a reboot, I started seeing PHP warnings for every PHP module it seems in both the console and a "crash report" notification on the web GUI. The warnings look like this: [28-May-2017 16:17:52 America/New_York] PHP Warning:  Module 'bcmath' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 … Likely could have been resolved by running: /etc/rc.php_ini_setup or on console using option '16) restart PHP-FPM'

I also encountered this error installing pfSense-CE-2.3.4-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd-vga to an older computer. I found the workaround documented in FreeBSD Bug 187015 helpful. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2016-November/070681.html Hit 'escape' at the pfSense boot menu and enter the following commands: set hint.agp.1.disabled=1 boot [haven't gotten this far yet] once booted, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: hint.agp.1.disabled=1

same happened again when moving from 2.3.3 –> 2.3.4

I suspect the Mac may be getting in the way there. You might try setting up another internal VM and connecting both that and the pfSense LAN to an internal network only. Make sure that works first. Otherwise check for states in the pfSense state table from the client PC IP. Check for blocked traffic in the firewall log. Steve

@Derek: …in the future I'll know to wait a couple of hours to make sure it's running well. And that's the frustrating part.

The crash specifically mentions bwn0, which is "Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless". Take out that wireless card and see if it works then. and/or try a 2.4 snapshot.

Thank you! Somehow I assumed that getting it to run in a VM means that the changes were saved in the config.xml file. Loading it with vi and saving it made it work for me, even hn0 was already filled in. [image: done.png] [image: done.png_thumb]

Hi, I have no problem running pfsense on ovirt i think you should either create a at least two vNIC on ovirt and attach it to the pfsense vm for WAN and LAN or PCI-passthrough a NIC to it

There is a new(older) recovery image in the portal, which seems to be working…. Hurrah!

Ok good to know. Will keep a lookout for which variant you will keep.

@Gertjan: Hi, Just an idea : setup the logger ( Status System Logs Settings) to an external log server so you can see up until which point all your interfaces are going down - or the unit becomes brain-dead. Be sure that reflashing to the version before doesn't give you the same situation. It seems this is a good idea to troubleshoot the problem.  I just don't know how to setup an external log server.  At the moment I will be setting up my network like this just to simulate it the problem keeps on coming on PC2 as well as the connected wireless device at UNIFI AP. MODEM–---->ASUS RT-N56(192.168.1.1)------>SWITCH1-------->(192.168.1.2)PFSENSE(10.10.10.1)-------->SWITCH2----->PC2                                                                             |                                                                                            |                                                                             |--------->PC1                                                                          |----->UNIFI AP

@stevehaley: I keep seeing references to posts that claim that it is possible to configure pfsense to establish the gre tunnel with the hitron in modem mode in order to login for the stAtic ip on virgin. Has anyone managed this? I cant even get pfsense to get a dynamic address when the existing smarthub 2 is in modem mode and have to spoof the mac address. The Hitron and Smarthub are two completely different devices, aren't they?

Glad its not just me. I even resorted to "pkg-static upgrade -f" just to make sure nothing had become corrupted, it took about 4 hours to download and reinstall 10MiB. It definitely seems to be something very wrong in the package manager itself.  Its not working at all from the UI but that is probably timeouts due to how very slow its running. Downloading something via curl on the command line does my line speed.  Downloading from the mirror site directly works fine.  All other functionality of pfSense is absolutely fine.

hhajj: You mention that after few minutes, connection to web configurator is lost. Did you get the 502 bad gateway error? If so you are not alone  :-[ Have a look here https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6406 Looks like the bug is one year old and that progess is 0%.

I followed this guide: https://www.netgate.com/docs/sg-1000/faq.html#how-do-i-restore-the-firewall-os-firmware And flashed the image to USB using this command: https://www.netgate.com/docs/reference/create-flash-media.html#linux-freebsd-mac-os-x Then when I had the OTG cable plugged in, with the USB connected, it gave a re-flash option from the console on first boot. Hope that helps.

Not yet.