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Mihak, do you have plans to update the theme for the FreeBSD 13 (AMD64) version of OPNsense (v23.7.10_1)?

Hi Franco, yes, I finally returned that darn unit yesterday.  Life is too short to deal with cheap, unreliable hardware. I am currently looking at a few Sophos firewall appliances on eBay to replace that mini PC.  Is there some others that I should be looking for?  It will be used in my own Home/Office production environment. I am open and appreciate suggestions.

Agreed. Since the next version is still so far out, without any guarantees of resolving the problem, it reinforces the idea of replacing the hardware.

Thanks Franco. I ran the memory test multiple times,  all PASSed... Still pending other HW tests are pending.
One thing I did not like is that I had to disable a disk test during initial install because the cheap Chinese SSD did not support it.
I am seriously considering to return this machine to Amazon and replacing it with a Protectli Vault or Qotom Vault. Any thoughts are appreciated.

Yes, I believe it is UEFI only, and I have been using UEFI since the beginning.  Can't get Knoppix to boot. It hangs during boot.  I was able to get MemTest86 to start, I left the PC overnight.  This morning, all tests passed. I have started a second round of tests which may take longer, as it uses one of the 4 CPUs on a round-robin basis.  Last night's test was with the 4 CPUs simultaneously and it took about 10hs to complete.

Coincidentally, MemTest86 did not crash during the testing.   :-\

Hello opnfwb,
Thanks for your tips.  I went into BIOS and there is nothing to be turned off.  Cheap little mini PC. 
I have been having unusual difficulties to get this mini PC to boot under Knoppix.  Tried with StressLinux as well with no success.  >:(     
I am getting pretty annoyed by this darn little thing.  Not giving up as of yet. 

Thank you opnfwb.  Yes, agreed. I should have done that to begin with. I normally use the bootable Knoppix for those cases, which I will do in my case. Sorry for popping up as a shoemaker that fails to wear shoes.   ::)

Hello,

I installed OPNsense in a mini PC (AWOW Model AK34 - Intel Celeron N3450, 6Gb DDR4, 128GB SSD) recently.

I've noticed that the firewall continuously crashes, at least once or twice daily, sometimes even more.

I have no clue as to what may be happening, reason for me to reach out to more hardcore geeks.  I wonder if it is a hardware incompatibility.

Attached is the log of the latest crash.