The device was only up for 4 hours before patching. Neither here nor there I was not intending to blame anything was more or less treating it as an advisory to take necessary precautions as well as see if anyone else had this happen and potentially knew of a fix.
Did not mean to turn this into a blame game. -----Original Message----- From: List [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Adam Thompson Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 9:20 AM To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <list@lists.pfsense.org>; Manuel Dejonghe <man...@dejonghe.de> Subject: Re: [pfSense] 2.4 Bricked my APU4 Netgate If you're going to even consider blaming widely-used software for hardware problems, then absolutely, yes, please do this, if only to stop the accusations. If you don't reboot regularly, now's a good time to change that policy, too. We aren't running NetWare 3.1 any more. No reboots = no patches. And of course be aware that many hardware problems only show up at reboot. The Intel Atom flaw being the most recent prominent example I can think of. -Adam On November 25, 2017 5:47:13 AM CST, Manuel Dejonghe <man...@dejonghe.de> wrote: >On 24 November 2017 at 01:35, Jim Thompson <j...@netgate.com> wrote: >> If there is no response from the bootloader (coreboot) on the serial >port, then the hardware died, and the upgrade’s only involvement was >the reboot at the end. > >Sounds like it's a good advice to reboot manually before the upgrade, >so that if it fails, you know why it failed. Would you agree ? >_______________________________________________ >pfSense mailing list >https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
