Finally, I could figure it out.

The problem was the console cable, I guess a cable break.
I just tried another one and the installer is booting fine.

Thanks for your help

@stephenw10 I tried already before I replied on this post. No success.

@lmannyr RAID would be done in a BIOS configuration for a RAID controller, There is GEOM for UFS but you can do ZFS mirroring -- all of these things require reinstallation of pfSense. You will need to back up your config before proceeding.
ZFS install: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-zfs.html

@adamjonfuller said in Is there an easy way to downgrade from 22.05 to 22.01?:

I can confirm that we are having the same issue. We don't use pfblockerng though. This seems to be something else related to 22.05.

This is what fixed it for me: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/nat-voip-pbx.html

NAT_1.jpg

NAT_2.jpg

Does it not respond at all? Does the number lock LED on the keyboard still work?

Does it respond to ctl+t?

Does it install if you remove/disble the Broadcom NIC?

Steve

@jimp A support incident was opened with TAC after my original post. They provided a link and instructions to reinstall firmware on the 3100. It is working again. Thank you for your input.

@bitslammer said in Unable to check for updates/ No packages available:

pkg: invalid url: /pfSense_plus-v22_05_armv7-core

Yeah, that path doesn't look good : no host name what so ever, so very invalid.

Look here for a nice story and solution.

@diver-0 said in "Unable to check for updates" in GUI, update in CLI working fine:

Thank you, Bingo600,
The diagnostics --> Edit File with new URL line worked.

Dumb question: What does the acronym "repos" mean?

Thanks again,
Jack

Repos ... Shorthand for Repository , as in pfSense package repository

/Bingo

@jesper-1 said in pfsense+ upgrade not available:

@johnpoz
Thanks for your response. Is it possible for me to have two free tokens? Can I just request another one for my second firewall?

That is what i did , for my backup firewall.
Just requested another token/activation-key.

No problem, delivered almost immediately.

/Bingo

I should have googled first. Sorry to waste your time.

@pat2634 said in Unable to retrieve package information.:

have you figured this out yet?

Was resolved last 15th august.

I checked just now, today, September 7th, 2h41 PM :

Enter an option: 13 >>> Creating automatic rollback boot environment... done. >>> Updating repositories metadata... Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue... Fetching meta.conf: . done Fetching packagesite.pkg: . done Processing entries: .. done pfSense-core repository update completed. 14 packages processed. Updating pfSense repository catalogue... Fetching meta.conf: . done Fetching packagesite.pkg: .......... done Processing entries: .......... done pfSense repository update completed. 542 packages processed. All repositories are up to date. >>> Setting vital flag on pkg... done. Your packages are up to date

It's true, once in a while, there is actually an issue with the Netgate's packet and update servers. So, not your side, but their side.
When that happens, there is no need to do anything, as it would impact us all.
Among the 100 000+ pfSEnse users, there will be always one who grabs the phone and call jimp, stephenw10 or who ever work at Netgate, and it will get fixed moments later.

Most often, like
99 %, it's a local fckd up DNS. Call your admin ;)
0,9 % : your ISP is definitely not expensive enough.
0,09 % : the peering to Netgate went dark (peering == the connection from your ISP to the Netgate server farm)
0,001 : That will be the Netgate servers ....like this (15/08) time.

And yeah, these things happen.
Even Facebook disappeared from the Internet, no so long ago.

@fireodo said in Chinese Water Torture: no notifications for available package updates…:

@khorton said in Chinese Water Torture: no notifications for available package updates…:

Does anyone have some unofficial solution to this problem? Is there some way to have a cron job that checks for package updates and sends an email if there are any available?

As far as I remember @luckman212 made such a script!
Here is the thread:
Update Check

Thanks! This script escaped detection during my searches.

@johnpoz said in pfSense plus offline download:

But that was like right when a new version had dropped, and sure they were swamped, etc

Yeah, release days... Sometimes those are delayed 2-3 hours depending on staff workload. 😵

You should already have access to the upgrade branch. Just select it from the update settings and you should be able to upgrade to Plus.

Steve

@gertjan Worked :)

yup from CE to plus and I also did a reinstall recently. After about 8 hours it allowed me to upgrade. likely what happened is as you described.

It does what it can on the most recent version(s) but IIRC there are a couple edge cases that the upstream library itself doesn't handle well that our outside of our control (or pkg). We try to find and replicate/fix them as we can.

@jimp
Ran update command and that fixed it wanting to update to the version I showed I was already on, but I got a crash report when it came back online:

Crash report details: No PHP errors found. Filename: /var/crash/info.0 Dump header from device: /dev/label/swap0 Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 4 Dump Length: 123392 Blocksize: 512 Compression: none Dumptime: Thu Aug 18 20:36:55 2022 Hostname: edgefw01 Magic: FreeBSD Text Dump Version String: FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE plus-RELENG_22_05-n202700-3ddaea61055 pfSense Panic String: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: 0xffffffff83daa000 Dump Parity: 510835326 Bounds: 0 Dump Status: good

Let me know if you want the full report

@rcoleman-netgate
That worked.
A full reload of the firmware was required to clear the problem.

Thanks