Upgrade to 26.7 from 26.1.11 failed with realtek 2.5g NICs

[HarveyEllis1]

I have a mini-pc that I use for Opnsense transparent filtering bridge. It has Realtek dual NICs and I use an ethernet to USB interface for management network.


I started upgrade to 26.7
It progressed normally with last successful messages during upgrade:

> [7/279] Extracting  os-realtek-re-1.0: .. done
> Reloading firmware os-realtek-re-1.0 .. done

and then failure messages appeared

> failed waiting for configd (doesn't seem to be running)
> failed waiting for configd (doesn't seem to be running)
> failed waiting for configd (doesn't seem to be running)
> failed waiting for configd (doesn't seem to be running)

Opnsense will boot as 26.1.11, but appears to be a broken upgrade with the following messages received when attempting to restart update:


***GOT REQUEST TO CHECK FOR UPDATES***
Currently running OPNsense 26.1.11_10 (amd64) at Sun Aug  2 15:53:23 EDT 2026
Fetching changelog information, please wait... done
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching data: .......... done
Processing entries: .......... done
FreeBSD-ports repository update completed. 37835 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching data: ..... done
Processing entries: .......... done
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository update completed. 239 packages processed.
Updating OPNsense-aux repository catalogue...
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/meta.txz: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/data.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/data.tzst: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/packagesite.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/packagesite.tzst: Not Found
Unable to update repository OPNsense-aux
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/meta.txz: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/data.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/data.tzst: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/packagesite.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/packagesite.tzst: Not Found
Unable to update repository OPNsense
Error updating repositories!
Upgrading package manager from version '' to ''
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/meta.txz: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/data.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/data.tzst: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/packagesite.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/packagesite.tzst: Not Found
Unable to update repository OPNsense
Error updating repositories!
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching data: .......... done
Processing entries: .......... done
FreeBSD-ports repository update completed. 37835 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching data: ..... done
Processing entries: .......... done
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository update completed. 239 packages processed.
Updating OPNsense-aux repository catalogue...
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/meta.txz: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/data.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/data.tzst: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/packagesite.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/aux/packagesite.tzst: Not Found
Unable to update repository OPNsense-aux
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/meta.txz: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/data.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/data.tzst: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/packagesite.pkg: Not Found
pkg: https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/26.1/latest/packagesite.tzst: Not Found
Unable to update repository OPNsense
Error updating repositories!
***DONE***


Within the GUI, under Plugins
os-isc-dhcp & os-realtek-re had status of "orphaned" and are now listed as missing.

Looking for suggestions of what to do, since I am unsure how to resolve this issue.
I have tried downloading os-realtek pkg & re-installing this via USB drive, without success correcting the problem.

Thanks!

[nero355]

You seem to have multiple issues :
- Some RealTek NICs no longer work in FreeBSD 15.x a.k.a. OPNsense 26.7 !!
- You might have the Intel/AMD microcode plug-in issue too : You need to uninstall it before upgrading to 26.7 !!
- And then you need to upgrade the FreeBSD Bootloader from the old version to the most recent FreeBSD 15.x version !!
- Then Enable the Intel/AMD microcode plug-in again if you want to keep using it.

But if your NICs are no longer supported then it's time to consider a hardware upgrade first and simply do a fresh install and configuration... :(


Good luck! :)

[HarveyEllis1]

I did fresh install of 26.7.1 & reloaded backup config file.
This was less hassle than spending more time on borked upgrade.