@jlw52761 said in Upgrade from 2.6 to 22.05, not 23.01: I did think about taking a backup of the 22.05 existing firewall then restore to the new 23.01 firewall, but I don't see that working well either due to the differences, but maybe it's worth a shot. I would think that too, because it is better solve the problems out (if there will be anything) then staying on a version that will be perhaps not supplied any more with upgrade or updates for pkg´s on top. So then you are on 23.01 and will be able to switch between the both 23.01 and 23.05 versions.

@gwaitsi said in 23.01 -> 23.05 Upgrade GUI not updated - upgrade corrupted: I copied the files from my other 23.01 system That won't work...just re-register...it's free.

@rcoleman-netgate this sounds like my issue. I upgraded to plus when it came out, so i probably need a new token as you say. it is not letting me go from CE to 23.01 after failed 23.05 upgrade. what do i have to do?

I initially had some errors when trying to upgrade through the GUI. Ended up SSHing into console and was able to upgrade no problem from there with "pfSense-upgrade".

@wastapi said in Upgrading from 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 fails: mountroot waiting for device /dev/gptid: @dobby_ 1-I am not the OP. But I am on Linux and have the very same issue. It is waiting for device. I was answering to you, because the original thread was from the - Feb 24, 2021, 11:53 PM 2-I think the MOST reliable is not on archive.org (from your link) but the OFFICIAL website He was asking; I had to find a previous 2.4.5 version to reinstall. And you wrote; same problem here. Did you solve it? So I thought you will be also on the need to get hands on a version 2.4.5_p1

@yuryk If you don't specify 'something', this : [image: 1684334867914-ce374e1e-7370-4192-8b06-32173c657b86-image.png] will ask for an A record. This : [image: 1684334924251-d6e1a4fd-66eb-4922-a669-9ae4fb866379-image.png] doesn't use 'A' (or AAAA) records Check the "pfSense Packages" forum : the top most post : DNS Broken for pkg.pfsense.org

@mohkhalifa said in Packages are not available: I don't have the option of "Automatically create a boot enviroment prior to performing system update" That option would be present if you have installed pfSense 'from scratch - from firmware file - from USB' and you have chosen 'ZFS' as a file system. That is, if that option exists for your hardware. ZFS is nice to have, as you can create a 'snap' from your current pfSense, and try out a new upgrade/update, and go back if needed.

@jimp Thanks, that seemed to get rid the error. However since I am moved on from OpenVPN to WG, this was bit of a forcing function for me.

It varies based on hardware, config complexity, and numerous other factors. There is no way to know beforehand how long it will take, so it just retries periodically. There is already a feature request in to get rid of the confusing countdown timer: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14008

Thanks both! Close to midnight here, but thanks for the super-rapid responses ...tomorrow morning I'll give it a go! Chris

@scurrier it went pretty well. Only things that threw me off were: The serial console was somehow cutting off some of the text at the login screen before rebooting, even though I had already configured my terminal correctly in the last, leading me to think my settings were wrong. They weren't, it was some pfsense console problem fixed by rebooting. The password prompt for the encrypted config has a timeout but doesn't say so, so when I went to my password manager to get the password, it timed out and I had to reboot and try again.

I'm getting the same error. I'm running on VMware ESXI 8.0U1. I have tried 3 times to upgrade to pfSense Plus from CE 2.6.0 brand new install and it fails each time. Why is it that we don't have a direct upgrade to pfSense Plus? Clearly the upgrade path doesn't work from CE 2.6.0. On another note, I tried upgrading from CE 2.7.0 and the same result as well. And lastly, I have noticed I get a SCSI error if there is a VMware snapshot on the machine during a boot of CE 2.6.0. If I remove the VMware snapshot and then reboot, no error. (This is separate from the certs.inc fatal error though and doesn't seem to affect it.) Can anyone figure out what's causing this problem? Even NetGate's own hardware is failing with this error. [image: 1684004610272-img_9122-resized.jpg]

Yes, it will be once 23.05 is released.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/virtualize-esxi.html

@catspecial202 said in GUI unresponsive and NG2100 stuck updating square slowly flashing orange 2+ hrs: None of the edits to my original post can be seen to the community? Correct.

@rcoleman-netgate Submitted it again and got an email acknowledgement with an issue number. Thank you!

I just wanted to pop in and say that I was also running into a "Bad Request" issue just now on 23.01 when trying to run pkg update and I was able to resolve this by plopping in my Register key via the UI. I was going through some troubleshooting last week with pfSense support and during the re-issuing of Plus certs it must have wiped the Registration key somewhere along the way. I was upgrading from 2.7.x CE to 23.01 Plus.

@matrix-31 The correct snapshot is Feb 15th. Anything after/more recent than Feb 15th caused issues. You should be good.

@vmhomelab said in Unable to check for updates | Restored backup: but it is still the ce edition installed What release specifically?