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This also impacts pfblocker-ng and squid. I suspect it has to do with what appears to be an incompatibility with php 8.0 and the packages pulled in from FreeBSD.

With Pfblocker-ng it causes a crash and if the widget is active on the dashboard it makes the UI on the dashboard non functional. I worked around this by manually disabling the widget in the config.xml to remove it from the dashboard and disabled the service from starting manually as well.

Also:

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc:1193
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc(1047): convert_pfxml_to_sgxml_time(Array)
#1 /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc(93): convert_pfxml_to_sgxml()
#2 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(868): require_once('/usr/local/pkg/...')
#3 /etc/rc.packages(76): install_package_xml('squidGuard')
#4 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc on line 1193

I just found the problem and the solution.

Problem:

PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc, Line: 1193, Message: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc:1193

Cause :

The squidguardtime settings it's empty

Solution :

Take a backup configuration (DiagnosticsBackup -> RestoreBackup -> Restore -> Download configuration as XML)

Edit the xml file and search "<squidguardtime>", delete the tag "<squidguardtime></squidguardtime>", save the file with another name, example "config-good.xml".

Restore the new configuration file (DiagnosticsBackup -> RestoreBackup -> Restore -> Configuration file), select the file "config-good.xml" and then press the button "Restore Configuration"

After that, the system will restart, reinstall the packages and everything will be fine. Don´t neeed to do anything else.

Let me know if everything it's fine.