Update Failed With This Error

[nbca2]

Thanks @nbca2

This info certainly helps a lot. Thus I'll uninstall the microcode plugin before the upgrade and won't install it afterwards.

P.S.: I don't know how to mention a user in this forum.

remember i'm not a tech guy, but a tech enthusiast
i don't understand if microcode is necessary for system security.
I have the concept of the microcode update and why I installed it.
However, I don't know why it conflicts with this version of opnsense and I don't know what it means by uninstalling the plugin (in addition to not have the CPU microcode updated).

[marka2k]

Similar situation, hooked up an Monitor and it appeared that the SSD was bad, stating when 25.7 was installed that it needed to recover clusters etc. then eventually would not boot. Uninstalled 25.7 and reinstalled 25.1.12 and no issues 2 days and counting. May try removing the Intel Microcode later and trying to install 25.7 again, spent an entire day troubleshooting. I am running the Glovary Mini PC with N100 Alder Lake CPU

[turipriv]

My Protectli NUC upgraded with no issues - I have os-cpu-microcode-intel installed

What model do you have? I have a VP2420 and plan to upgrade during the weekend.

[aperezva]

Thanks for your feedback, I dont have microcode plugin installed, but reading this experiences, i will wait till see how this issue progress. I´m also based in intel,snfd I don´t want to restore the installation at all.

[allenlook]

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.

[OPNenthu]

There's a risk that we'll never know what the trigger is or that this "bug" will never be found/fixed (especially if it's a vendor issue).

FWIW, I had success on two Protectli units (a V1410 and a VP2410) both with the intel-microcode package installed prior to upgrade.  They both are running coreboot rather than the stock AMI UEFI, in case that makes a difference.

[axsdenied]

Uninstalled the os-cpu-microcode-intel microcode & rebooted to make sure it took effect.

Ran the upgrade to 25.7 device hung, power cycled it and it came up OK so removing the microcode did improve the situation. Unfortunately I'm running this router headless so could not see any errors on screen - I have to take it out of the rack to attach a monitor to it.

I'm going to continue running it without the microcode installed and see how it goes. Following on from Franco said earlier I will look it there is a BIOS update available, it's a small fan less PC so may need to do some research to find it.

PS big thank you to Franco for you extremely rapid and helpful suggestion, I love this community.

I highly recommend using a PIKVM for this type of situation.  I also run my servers headless but still need console from time to time.  Works flawlessly.