Netgate APU Problem and solving with upgrade from 2.7.0 to 2.7.2

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Hi,

i upgraded pfSense from 2.7.0 to 2.7.2. After reboot, the web IO said Version 2.7.0. I logged in via SSH but it failed "permission denied". I used the command line via web UI.
In auth.log i saw the message

Dec 31 15:08:41 pfsense sshd[23288]: User admin not allowed because shell /etc/rc.initial does not exist

I downloaded the rc.initial from pfSense github repo, uploaded the file and add exec permissions to it. Then SSH login works.

I logged in via SSH and run

pkg-static info

I found the following:

pfSense-2.7.0                  Meta package to install pfSense required ports
pfSense-Status_Monitoring-php82-1.8_3 pfSense Status Monitoring
pfSense-base-2.7.2             pfSense core files
pfSense-boot-2.7.2             pfSense boot files

The package pfSense-2.7.0 was not upgraded to pfSense-2.7.2. An error occured if this package should upgraded.
I remembered an error occured due to intel cpu microcode. Therefore the /etc/rc.initial script not exists after the upgrade.
In my opinion it takes no sense to install intel cpu microcode on an AMD system.

In the web UI, an update check says all is up to date and 2.7.2 packages are installed. Firewall works as expected.

Is it danger to upgrade package pfSense-2.7.0? Should i wait for next stable upgrade to 2.7.3?

stephenw10

Make sure you have a backup config in case you need to reinstall.

But you should be able to run pkg-static upgrade and agree to the offered packages from there to reach the complete 2.7.2 install.