The mouse wouldn't work there, nor would typing the letter. There is more than one entry on the screen so pressing the letter only highlights the entry. Select the menu entry with the up/down arrow and then press Enter.

I didn't manage to solve the upgrade issue, but I did manage to get to the device with a small portable screen and keyboard. So in the end, I did a clean install (using the existing config.xml to restore) and upgraded that way. With a screen, keyboard and 2.6-loaded thumb drive, the install was a piece of cake.

@ex1580 mine has also returned with a snort update I just installed. YEAH

No ideas?

It would be root in the installer and not admin. If you do passwd or maybe passwd root it should set the password and let to go from there, or it did last I tried it. I haven't tried it lately, but it hasn't been that long ago.

FYI: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/172697/pfsense-plus-software-version-22-05-release-candidate-is-now-available-for-testing

@cclcyber I'm having the same issue. Did you ever find an answer?

@havastamas Okay, the server might have been down, thanks.

@jimp Thank you the explanation; much appreciated! Once 22.05 comes out, I will update to that and then take a backup config once again and then as you mentioned hopefully by 22.09, when I update to that - I will take a new backup and then also would be able to save the installer for my non-Netgate hardware to save some steps for future rebuilds. One more additional question; Do you foresee Netgate getting rid of CE? Or Netgate start charging for Home/Lab use? I am trying to make the decision if I made the right call to move away from CE to Plus for my Home use router/firewall.

@nasheayahu It's not really designed to upgrade pfSense via USB. You can kind of do it though, for instance, to convert to ZFS. This process allows pulling the config file during installation: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-during-install.html#recover-config-xml-from-existing-installation I would definitely make sure you have your own backup though. Always a good idea. Since you have a 2100 you want the Plus software so you can open a free ticket. CE is the free, AMD64 software.

That kind of segfault in pkg can also happen if you have a package installed that is not present in the current release. The most common one is an older Zabbix version. You should be able to uninstall that package and then upgrade as normal.

@bingo600 GOOD NEWS. Solved it, and it IS due to a bug of RAM disk + ZFS. See here.

@someone464 I tried the exact same progress as yesterday today, it magically works now, very weird.

@brian-smit To your question about it not being offered: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/upgrades.html#upgrade-not-offered-library-errors

@rcoleman-netgate said in Ver 2.3.5: AMD Geode or other 32-bit only CPU. My advice would be to get somewhat current hardware then.. 32bit only - that hardware has to be what 10+ years old.. time to move on..

@adelaide_guy Same blocker. Next, opened a support ticket. Appears they need a cert output from in-place upgraded CE system to correct their backend (asked if the system was in-place upgraded CE migrating to Plus or newly downloaded CE v2.6 upgrading to Plus - might be different fix routes). Anyways Netgate support was awesome! Migration from CE to Plus is complete.

Fix: start a new taclite support request. Result: Chris verified the issue and then resolved it which allowed the system to upgrade from CE to Plus. Amazing customer service Netgate!

@aspiringnetworkadmin I might be misreading that -- it could be the first is the ISO and the second is the USB file.