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    Slow reboot on upgrade

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      thynder
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      I hope this is the right place to post this. I have a NG 5100. Just did an upgrade to 23.01 via the firewall GUI. It took 12 minutes to finish reboot.

      May 13 11:19:07	reboot	50639	rebooted by root
      May 13 11:19:12	syslogd		exiting on signal 15
      May 13 11:31:13	syslogd		kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
      May 13 11:31:13	kernel		---<<BOOT>>---
      

      This delayed reboot seems to happen with each upgrade. I have not timed the previous upgrades, but I do remember they felt relatively slow. The default wait time on the firewall GUI is insufficient. The browser attempts to reconnect every 20 seconds.

      If 12 minutes is a reasonable reboot time for this hardware, then it would be helpful to update the firewall GUI to not expect such a short window.

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        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

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