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I upgraded my N100 with ZFS and tunables yesterday and so far so good.  For the first time, I used the Upgrade from Console option just to try it out, and it went smoothly and rebooted the device successfully.

I had this exact issue recently, and I spent over a month trying to figure it out.

In the end, I did many things in a desperate attempt to get reliable connectivity back, so I can't pinpoint one thing, but the sum of things was this:

1. Deleted all the VLANs I had recently created, going back to a single default network. Probably didn't help, but it was a variable.
2. Switched from CloudFlare to Quad-9.  PingTool showed CloudFlare frequently becoming unresponsive, and when pinging the OPNsense WAN interface, the default gateway, and CloudFlare / Quad-9 on both IPv4 and IPv6, the point of disconnect most commonly showed up between my WAN interface and the default gateway. But CloudFlare was still unresponsive more often than Quad-9.
3. Had a technician install a splitter between the street and the cable modem, as the signal was "coming in too hot".

I believe #3 had the most to do with signal quality and reliability, and I'm going to go back and test #1 as soon as I get time.

FYI, I searched all over the place for a good Ping program that would run simultaneous pings to multiple addresses and log the results.  PingTool (ping-tool.com) was the best I could find for free.  It doesn't do fancy graphs, but it does keep a running table of results, and it will email you if it sees one of your targets go down or come back up for a specified time period.

I've been running for 333 days on a MinisForum UN100D, with a 256GB "GOFATOO" NVMe SSD, with 28.4TB written so far, consuming 34% of the drive life.  If it dies I'll put another SSD in it, so no big deal, but I *did* turn off NetFlow and RRD as that's all I can figure would write that much data in that amount of time.

Logging in and using "su" to authenticate as root made the menu display.

I've logged into ssh as a test, and the menu no longer displays...

Is this a feature, and if so, how do I get it back if I need it?

It works fine once booted, and prior to 25.7 it always ran and rebooted while headless.

Since the upgrade to 25.7 I've had to reboot it twice (once as part of the upgrade and again today), and each time it failed to reboot until I connected a monitor and keyboard to it.

Been running 25.7.1_1 for a few days and it has been OK, everything working.

Overnight, the router stopped responding, and WiFi computers could not connect to the Internet or to the router's Web GUI.  DHCP was not working and hard-coded IPs were unsuccessful.

A reboot of the router failed while headless, again.

Attaching a monitor and keyboard allowed the firewall to reboot and everything is working again at the moment.

No indication why it died like that, or why it won't reboot headless now that 25.7+ is installed.

This morning one of the web pages is responding, so the Caddy service and mechanism are good, I just need to figure out why the other two are not responding.  No changes to the system other than the upgrade to OPNsense.

As the topic indicates, I upgraded from 25.4 to 25.7.1_1 and now my Caddy reverse proxies no longer work.

I have three, two of which are directly accessible web pages, and one of which is a service that listens on a port.

All were working fine before the upgrade, but now none of them function properly, and I get an HTTP error 502.

Rebooting the firewall, restarting the Caddy service, and restarting the web servers has not helped.

DNS is working on the firewall and the machines are each accessible by their names on the local network, e.g. SERVER and SERVER.home.arpa.

Any suggestions for further troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated.

I upgraded to 25.7.1_1 yesterday, and it went OK.  I had to plug a display and keyboard into the system to see what was hanging up the reboot, but it continued on its own once I did so I'm not sure why it failed to reboot itself the first time.  It then ran fine yesterday and overnight.

This morning I noticed the dashboard had accumulated a lot of "Failed to load widget" errors, and the CPU temp was very high at 71C, it was always 50-60C prior.  It then dropped straight to 53C, and then rose steadily back up to 70+, lather/rinse/repeat.

No changes to configuration otherwise, but some strange CPU temp cycling behavior on 25.7.1_1.

Edit: Just noticed after posting that the "Insight Aggregator" service had stopped, and had to be restarted.  It's not something I use, really, but my system has never had a problem with services stopping before.  Minisforum UN100D, N100, 8GB, 256GB SSD.

Update: Firewall ran the remainder of the day and overnight with no service stoppages or failed widgets, so that's all good.  Now just troubleshooting an issue with Caddy in another thread.

I've got a Minisforum UN100D that's based on the N100 Intel processor that is normally headless, and a bit of a chore to hook up to monitor and keyboard, and it has the microcode plugin installed.

Based on this I think I'll wait to upgrade, and I'll monitor here for people's experience.

I appreciate the forum all the more, thank you.

Try changing to "Hyperscan", that has resolved it for us at least temporarily.

Ours started erroring out on the 20th, same symptoms, and same temporary resolution - Hyperscan.