I may have fixed it, after some reading I see there may be an issue with the cpu microcode.
I disabled that then from shell did the following:
# opnsense-update -up
(reboot)
Then ran updates again from the GUI.
now on the GUI I see
Versions
OPNsense 26.7.2_2-amd64
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2
OpenSSL 3.5.7
Didn't realize the microcode would cause so many issues.
I disabled that then from shell did the following:
# opnsense-update -up
(reboot)
Then ran updates again from the GUI.
now on the GUI I see
Versions
OPNsense 26.7.2_2-amd64
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2
OpenSSL 3.5.7
Didn't realize the microcode would cause so many issues.
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