Unable to update firewall. (HOME LAB)
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After several hours of troubleshooting I have discovered that I cannot update my firewall because my free home lab license for pfSense PLUS has expired, and the free home lab license has been entirely deprecated.
I am extremely disappointed, and I'm disinclined to downgrade to the CE version of pfSense, as it is very apparently on its way to being abandonware. This was a sleazy move on the part of Netgate. I migrated to PLUS in reliance on representations that my free home lab access to PLUS would continue for "the foreseeable future". My days of bug reporting, and evangelizing are over for pfSense..
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2.7.2 is avaible, 2.8.0 will follow soon. Both are 0 $, used by millions, so don't worry about being 'abandoned'.
2.8.0 is as good as pfSense Plus (24.03), and for 99%+ the same thing. -
Send me your NDI and or order number in chat and I'll check it. AFAIK that should not have expired so it's possible the NDI changed?
Steve
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Thank you both for the quick replies. I am unsure what happened, but something seems to have corrupted my installs. I was able to update by reinstalling, and everything now seems to be fine. The new installer is pretty darn spiffy, but the choice selection mechanism is pretty horrible. This inability to update occurred on both my personal firewall, and the one that protects my mom's network. Mine is a bare metal install, while mom's runs in a VM on QEMU/KVM. I wonder if the quirk is unique to machines with a home lab license for pfSense+?
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@bfeitell said in Unable to update firewall. (HOME LAB):
I wonder if the quirk is unique to machines with a home lab license for pfSense+?
In the installer? It should be identical whatever the license type is.
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No the new branch not showing in the update interface. That was the root of the issue. None of the troubleshooting steps could make the new branch appear for selection. I had to run a full install of the latest version (24.03). This affected two machines so far and, I suspect another one at a remote location that has been down for a few months due to a power cut.
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Hmm, well also shouldn't be unique to home/lab. If an NDI is seen as eligible it will show the branches. The subscription type doesn't matter.
The most common issue there is that the NDI changed but that doesn't seem likely here if you were able to just reinstall.
