Hi everyone,
I have a cron job that runs "Automatic firmware update" daily. I have noted recently that this seems to reboot the box every time. From what I can see in monitoring, this seems to have started Wednesday last week, so 2026-06-03.
Was something changed that would lead to this behavior? 26.1.8 was on 2026-05-12, so I don't see a temporal correlation.
Any hints would be highly appreciated.
Cheers
I just saw the release of 26.1.9 in https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=52042.0 on 2026-06-02, so maybe that's the correlation I was missing.
Maybe there is an issue installing this version. I'll try from the console and see what happens.
I wonder why it would only display now, I had checked for updates and it said there were no updates available.
OK, I think I've found something. After updating to 26.1.9, I get this:
Enter an option: 12
Fetching changelog information, please wait... fetch: transfer timed out
fetch: /usr/local/opnsense/changelog/changelog.txz appears to be truncated: 0/217364 bytes
This will automatically fetch all available updates and apply them.
This update requires a reboot.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
This will run the update, try to install 26.1.9 again as it seems, and surely enough reboot the box:
Fetching base-26.1.9-amd64.txz: ...............................[fetch: transfer timed out
fetch: /var/cache/opnsense-update/74329/base-26.1.9-amd64.txz.sig appears to be truncated: 0/1332 bytes] failed, no signature found
>>> Invoking stop script 'beep'
How do I fix this?
Finding https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=38982.0 I disabled IPv6 for testing and it got rid of the changelog.txz appears to be truncated error. After another "update" in the console (which did nothing) and another reboot, it now seems to work again.