25.11.r.20251118.1708: bug: removing IPSEC profile Wizard broke my pfSense :(
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I was tidying up, removing packages I wasn't using and when I removed the IPSEC Profile Wizard all hell broke loose: pfSense-plus: 25.11.r.20251118.1708 got removed!
>>> Removing pfSense-pkg-ipsec-profile-wizard... Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Deinstallation has been requested for the following 2 packages (of 0 packages in the universe): Installed packages to be REMOVED: pfSense-pkg-ipsec-profile-wizard: 1.2.4 pfSense-plus: 25.11.r.20251118.1708 Number of packages to be removed: 2 [1/2] Deinstalling pfSense-plus-25.11.r.20251118.1708... [1/2] Deleting files for pfSense-plus-25.11.r.20251118.1708: ... done [2/2] Deinstalling pfSense-pkg-ipsec-profile-wizard-1.2.4... Removing ipsec-profile-wizard components... Menu items... done. [2/2] Deleting files for pfSense-pkg-ipsec-profile-wizard-1.2.4: ......... done Removing ipsec-profile-wizard components... Configuration... done. >>> Removing stale packages...done. SuccessThe consequences are catastrophic, these packages got automatically removed (!):
pfSense-pkg-aws-wizard-0.12
pfSense-pkg-WireGuard-0.2.11
pfSense-pkg-Nexus-25.11.r.20251118.1708
aws-sdk-php84-3.273.3
pfSense-pkg-ipsec-profile-wizard-1.2.4
pfSense-plus-25.11.r.20251118.1708bug. help. what's the easiest way of getting the system back in order???
TIA.
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I found a config created just before the package removal fest begun and managed to restore it. There's no automatic installation of packages it seems, and manually installing Nexus gives me this, unhelpful...:

However, I managed to install it running "pkg install pfSense-pkg-Nexus". The other packages have also been reinstalled, and my pfSense appears to be back in action, fingers crossed.