https://redmine.pfsense.org/https://redmine.pfsense.org/favicon.ico?16780521162023-02-22T08:15:36ZpfSense bugtrackerpfSense - Feature #14008: Change upgrade/reboot countdown timer to a general "busy" indicatorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14008?journal_id=657952023-02-22T08:15:36ZJim Pingle
<ul><li><strong>Subject</strong> changed from <i>Lengthen default timer on upgrades</i> to <i>Change upgrade/reboot countdown timer to a general "busy" indicator</i></li></ul><p>It's a good idea since that varies a lot by hardware but it's all a guess. I'm not even sure why we need a visible timer here since it just resets and keeps checking once it runs out. It's all in JS so it's not even a proper indicator of whether or not the firewall is responding.</p>
<p>So we could probably eliminate the countdown entirely and replace it with some other kind of animated "busy" indicator and keep probing periodically in the background either way.</p> pfSense - Feature #14008: Change upgrade/reboot countdown timer to a general "busy" indicatorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14008?journal_id=658012023-02-22T09:03:29ZSteve Y
<ul></ul><p>Brainstorming it the other direction, perhaps after "n" minutes show a message to check the console, or after a while show "if the LEDs on your router are <em>_</em> connect to the console, otherwise wait" (that's only applicable to Netgate hardware of course). (actually checking the console ought to add more wait time for most people!)</p> pfSense - Feature #14008: Change upgrade/reboot countdown timer to a general "busy" indicatorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14008?journal_id=658022023-02-22T09:12:43ZMike Kazimar
<ul></ul><p>To add to the conversation, as a relative newcomer to Netgate/pfSense, the fact that there is a 2 minute timer implies that the firewall is expected to be "ready" in 2ish minutes. Yesterday I updated my XG7100 to 23.01 and almost 20 minutes of watching the firewall report "Not ready, retrying in 20 seconds" made me think that there was a problem and the firewall was somehow "stuck." Since I didn't find any instructions regarding that issue, I chose to reboot through the console, which I now know can result in an incomplete upgrade. I plan to reload now just to insure that everything is okay even though I haven't seen any issues yet. For the sake of answering the questions that may be asked, I did reboot prior to the upgrade, and I made a backup both before and after the reboot. I also created a boot environment just in case.</p>