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You are correct, to a point.

For example, I - for one - don't "modify" something like OPN as I have no programmatic knowledge. As I stated in my earlier posts, not only did I follow the rules as laid out for us but I also scoured the forums for the knowledge to save myself before even asking for help.

I'm certain there are plenty of people who visit the forums once, make loud complaints to anyone involved, and then never respond or post again. In that sense, I am not one of those people. I posted asking for assistance and agreed with another user's point (while also making a suggestion for an enhancement that would allow an end-user to find the answers they need).

It would seem you took it as criticism. And not even as constructive criticism. Perhaps a PM or other format to ask your audience what they mean ... instead of publicly posting a complaint which makes no headway in an end user's (or two) issue(s).

now I am just annoyed, mostly, at the lack of logs rather than the upgrade failing

Hear hear. Logs are the first place I went looking for clues, to no avail. Other FOSS applications I use (even https://dietpi.com/) have a straightforward and easy-to-use "here's the error log, go to this address _____ and submit a report". You'd think a competitive product like OPNsense would as well.

My turn to chime-in.

I am having exactly this same issue. I started at 18.7.10_4, OpenSSL edition on the Protectli FW4A w/ 8GB:
https://i.imgur.com/GxDdDg2.png

From there, back at the release of 19.1 (not the now-changed 19.1.1), I followed ALL of the steps listed in order. Then I scoured the forums, and tried many different things. And I even took screenshots as I went along.

* Attempted to use the "Update" instead of the "Upgrade" button, makes no difference:
https://i.imgur.com/urtUglm.png

* Sometimes I'd get this message:
https://i.imgur.com/GNpTUU3.png

* Other times, I'd get this one:
https://i.imgur.com/ZsFO86I.png

* The system rebooted after actually showing it downloading the 19.1 images & kernel:
https://i.imgur.com/CE2eHvV.png

* No matter what, trying an upgrade looked like it was going to work, using "Unlock" and "Upgrade":
https://i.imgur.com/Wf5ebgx.png

Steps taken:
- Changed mirror from "default" to "Leaseweb", ran "updates", it DL'ed 18.7.10_4 (again), and rebooted:
**Note: lost this screenshot**

- Considered changing from "default" (currently "OpenSSL") over to "LibreSSL" but wasn't sure if it was HW-specific or just a choice:
https://i.imgur.com/XtyXW9s.png

I looked through all of the logs that made logical sense, looking for "fail"/"failure"/"warning" and all the other ones...; I tried updating from the console/CLI (using both "Y" and "19.1"); I dug through so many forum posts I fell asleep at my keyboard. I still haven't found the "right" or "wrong" thing I'm doing/not-doing so as to make this work.

I'm not really ready to take down the internet for half of a day just to reinstall my whole install. And while I have an ESXi server, it'll still take half of a day to get a new VM up and then re-route the networking.

Does ANYONE know what's going on or causing this problem? :'(  ... HELP! ...