Update CHANGELOG.md (#18502)

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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -571,6 +571,48 @@ Exercise vigilance regarding copycat or coat-tailing sites that seek to exploit
 
 </details>
 
+## 2026-11-06
+
+### 🚀 Updated Scripts
+
+  - #### 🐞 Bug Fixes
+
+    - OPNsense VM: size the temp space check to the unpacked image |  say why the EFI disk could not be allocated [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18404](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18404))
+
+### 💾 Core
+
+  - fix: spot same-filesystem bind mounts on Alpine [@rcourtman](https://github.com/rcourtman) ([core#212](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/212))
+- fix: report a container that went down during setup, keep finished installs [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#211](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/211))
+
+## 2026-11-05
+
+### 🚀 Updated Scripts
+
+  - #### 🐞 Bug Fixes
+
+    - OpenWRT-VM: leave the NIC untagged on a bridge without a port [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18473](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18473))
+    - Podman: skip Portainer where Podman has no Quadlet [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18469](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18469))
+    - Planka: change npm start argument to --production [@CerberusStyle](https://github.com/CerberusStyle) ([#18478](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18478))
+    - OPNsense VM: wait for the FreeBSD login prompt instead of 180 seconds [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18467](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18467))
+
+  - #### 🔧 Refactor
+
+    - truenas-VM: let a failed ISO lookup reach its own error [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18476](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18476))
+    - proxmox-mail-gateway: take the repo suite from the container  [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18475](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18475))
+    - Immich: Bump to 3.3.6 and minor improvement [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18474](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18474))
+    - Tududi: run 2.0 on PostgreSQL, keep SQLite installs on 1.15.0 [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18465](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18465))
+
+### 💾 Core
+
+  - fix: keep the existing install until the new archive has extracted [@rcourtman](https://github.com/rcourtman) ([core#201](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/201))
+- fix: keep the install when a clone or an Alpine extract fails [@rcourtman](https://github.com/rcourtman) ([core#210](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/210))
+
+### 🧰 Tools
+
+  - #### 🐞 Bug Fixes
+
+    - Arcane: write both env names, stop shipping the unused .env [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18466](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18466))
+
 ## 2026-11-04
 
 ### 🚀 Updated Scripts

ct/immich.sh

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ EOF
   BASE_DIR=${STAGING_DIR}/base-images
   SOURCE_DIR=${STAGING_DIR}/image-source
   cd /tmp
-  RELEASE="v3.3.5"
+  RELEASE="v3.3.6"
   if [[ -f ~/.intel_version ]]; then
     INTEL_SRC="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/immich-app/immich/${RELEASE}/machine-learning"
     curl -fsSL "${INTEL_SRC}/scripts/install-intel-runtime.sh" -o ./intel-runtime 2>/dev/null ||
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ EOF
       msg_ok "Pre-installed Python ${ML_PYTHON}"
       msg_info "Updating Intel OpenVINO machine-learning"
       for attempt in $(seq 1 3); do
-        $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra openvino --no-dev --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
+        $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra openvino --no-dev --upgrade-package watchfiles --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
         [[ $attempt -eq 3 ]] && { ML_FAILED=1; break; }
         # Parallel fetches can trip DNS rate limits (AdGuard, Pi-hole); retry one at a time.
         export UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS=1
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ EOF
       msg_ok "Pre-installed Python ${ML_PYTHON}"
       msg_info "Updating machine-learning"
       for attempt in $(seq 1 3); do
-        $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra cpu --no-dev --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
+        $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra cpu --no-dev --upgrade-package watchfiles --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
         [[ $attempt -eq 3 ]] && { ML_FAILED=1; break; }
         # Parallel fetches can trip DNS rate limits (AdGuard, Pi-hole); retry one at a time.
         export UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS=1

ct/planka.sh

@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ function update_script() {
     msg_ok "Migrated Database"
 
     msg_info "Starting Service"
+    sed -i 's|ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start --prod$|ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start --production|' /etc/systemd/system/planka.service
+    systemctl daemon-reload
     systemctl start planka
     msg_ok "Started Service"
     msg_ok "Updated successfully!"

ct/tududi.sh

@@ -32,7 +32,14 @@ function update_script() {
 
   NODE_VERSION="22" setup_nodejs
 
-  if check_for_gh_release "tududi" "chrisvel/tududi"; then
+  RELEASE=""
+  if ! grep -qs '^DATABASE_URL=' /opt/tududi/backend/.env; then
+    RELEASE="v1.15.0"
+    msg_warn "Tududi 2.0 runs on PostgreSQL only, so this SQLite install stays on 1.15.0"
+    msg_warn "To move to 2.0, export in Settings > Backups and import into a new Tududi LXC"
+  fi
+
+  if check_for_gh_release "tududi" "chrisvel/tududi" "${RELEASE}" "2.0 needs PostgreSQL"; then
     msg_info "Stopping Service"
     systemctl stop tududi
     msg_ok "Stopped Service"
@@ -43,9 +50,14 @@ function update_script() {
     else
       cp /opt/tududi/.env /opt/tududi.env
     fi
+    if ! grep -q '^TUDUDI_UPLOAD_PATH=' /opt/tududi.env; then
+      mkdir -p /opt/tududi-uploads
+      [[ -d /opt/tududi/backend/uploads ]] && cp -a /opt/tududi/backend/uploads/. /opt/tududi-uploads/
+      echo "TUDUDI_UPLOAD_PATH=/opt/tududi-uploads" >>/opt/tududi.env
+    fi
     msg_ok "Backed up env file"
 
-    CLEAN_INSTALL=1 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "tududi" "chrisvel/tududi" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/tududi"
+    CLEAN_INSTALL=1 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "tududi" "chrisvel/tududi" "tarball" "${CHECK_UPDATE_RELEASE}" "/opt/tududi"
 
     msg_info "Updating Tududi"
     cd /opt/tududi

install/immich-install.sh

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ if [[ "$(arch_resolve)" == "amd64" ]] && ! grep -qm1 sse4_2 /proc/cpuinfo; then
   exit 236
 fi
 
-RELEASE="v3.3.5"
+RELEASE="v3.3.6"
 if lscpu | grep -q 'GenuineIntel'; then
   echo ""
   echo ""
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ mkdir -p {"${APP_DIR}","${UPLOAD_DIR}","${GEO_DIR}","${INSTALL_DIR}"/cache}
 
 msg_info "Installing GeoNames data"
 cd "$GEO_DIR"
-curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin1CodesASCII.txt" "admin1CodesASCII.txt"
-curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin2Codes.txt" "admin2Codes.txt"
-curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt" "countryInfo.txt"
-curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities500.zip" "cities500.zip"
+CURL_RETRIES=6 CURL_CONNECT_TO=30 curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin1CodesASCII.txt" "admin1CodesASCII.txt"
+CURL_RETRIES=6 CURL_CONNECT_TO=30 curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin2Codes.txt" "admin2Codes.txt"
+CURL_RETRIES=6 CURL_CONNECT_TO=30 curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt" "countryInfo.txt"
+CURL_RETRIES=6 CURL_CONNECT_TO=30 curl_with_retry "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities500.zip" "cities500.zip"
 curl_with_retry "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson" "ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson"
 unzip -q cities500.zip
 date --iso-8601=seconds | tr -d "\n" >geodata-date.txt
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ if [[ -f ~/.openvino ]]; then
   msg_ok "Pre-installed Python ${ML_PYTHON}"
   msg_info "Installing Intel OpenVINO machine-learning"
   for attempt in $(seq 1 3); do
-    $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra openvino --no-dev --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
+    $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra openvino --no-dev --upgrade-package watchfiles --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
     [[ $attempt -eq 3 ]] && { msg_error "uv sync failed three times, the machine-learning environment was not built"; exit 1; }
     # Parallel fetches can trip DNS rate limits (AdGuard, Pi-hole); retry one at a time.
     export UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS=1
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ else
   msg_ok "Pre-installed Python ${ML_PYTHON}"
   msg_info "Installing machine-learning"
   for attempt in $(seq 1 3); do
-    $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra cpu --no-dev --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
+    $STD sudo --preserve-env=VIRTUAL_ENV,UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT,UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS,UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS,UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS -Pnu immich uv sync --extra cpu --no-dev --upgrade-package watchfiles --active --link-mode copy -n -p "${ML_PYTHON}" --managed-python && break
     [[ $attempt -eq 3 ]] && { msg_error "uv sync failed three times, the machine-learning environment was not built"; exit 1; }
     # Parallel fetches can trip DNS rate limits (AdGuard, Pi-hole); retry one at a time.
     export UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_BUILDS=1 UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS=1

install/planka-install.sh

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ After=network.target
 
 [Service]
 WorkingDirectory=/opt/planka
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start --prod
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start --production
 Restart=always
 
 [Install]

install/podman-install.sh

@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ msg_ok "Installed Podman"
 
 mkdir -p /etc/containers/systemd
 
+if [[ ! -x /usr/libexec/podman/quadlet ]]; then
+  msg_warn "Portainer runs as a Quadlet unit, which needs Podman 4.4 or newer (Debian 13); skipping it"
+  var_podman_portainer="n" var_podman_portainer_agent="n"
+fi
 prompt="${var_podman_portainer:-}"
 [[ -n "$prompt" ]] || read -r -p "${TAB3}Would you like to add Portainer? <y/N> " prompt || true
 if [[ ${prompt,,} =~ ^(y|yes)$ ]]; then

install/proxmox-mail-gateway-install.sh

@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ update_os
 msg_info "Installing Proxmox Mail Gateway"
 setup_deb822_repo \
   "pmg" \
-  "https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-trixie.gpg" \
+  "https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-$(get_os_info codename).gpg" \
   "http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pmg" \
-  "trixie" \
+  "$(get_os_info codename)" \
   "pmg-no-subscription"
 $STD apt install -y proxmox-mailgateway-container
 msg_ok "Installed Proxmox Mail Gateway"

install/tududi-install.sh

@@ -13,13 +13,9 @@ setting_up_container
 network_check
 update_os
 
-msg_info "Installing Dependencies"
-$STD apt install -y \
-  sqlite3 \
-  yq
-msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
-
 NODE_VERSION="22" setup_nodejs
+PG_VERSION="17" setup_postgresql
+PG_DB_NAME="tududi" PG_DB_USER="tududi" setup_postgresql_db
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "tududi" "chrisvel/tududi" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/tududi"
 
 msg_info "Configuring Tududi"
@@ -30,30 +26,22 @@ $STD npm run frontend:build
 mv ./dist ./backend
 msg_ok "Configured Tududi"
 
-msg_info "Creating env and database"
-DB_LOCATION="/opt/tududi-db"
-UPLOAD_DIR="/opt/tududi-uploads"
-mkdir -p {"$DB_LOCATION","$UPLOAD_DIR"}
+msg_info "Creating env"
+mkdir -p /opt/tududi-uploads
 SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 64)"
 sed -e '/^NODE_ENV=/s/=.*$/=production/' \
   -e 's/^TUDUDI_USER/# TUDUDI_USER/g' \
-  -e "/_SECRET=/s/=.*$/=${SECRET}/" \
-  -e '/^# DB_FILE=/s/^# //' \
-  -e "s|^DB_FILE=.*|DB_FILE=${DB_LOCATION}/production.sqlite3|" \
-  -e "/^# TUDUDI_ALLOWED/s/^# //; \
-    \|_ORIGINS=|s|=.*$|=<your tududi IP or FDQN>|" \
-  -e "/^# TUDUDI_UPLOAD/s/^# //; \
-    \|UPLOAD_PATH=|s|=.*$|=${UPLOAD_DIR}|" \
+  -e "s/^TUDUDI_SESSION_SECRET=.*/TUDUDI_SESSION_SECRET=${SECRET}/" \
+  -e "s|^DATABASE_URL=.*|DATABASE_URL=postgres://tududi:${PG_DB_PASS}@localhost:5432/tududi|" \
   /opt/tududi/backend/.env.example >/opt/tududi/backend/.env
-export DB_FILE="${DB_LOCATION}/production.sqlite3"
-$STD npm run db:init
-msg_ok "Created env and database"
+echo "TUDUDI_UPLOAD_PATH=/opt/tududi-uploads" >>/opt/tududi/backend/.env
+msg_ok "Created env"
 
 msg_info "Creating service"
 cat <<EOF >/etc/systemd/system/tududi.service
 [Unit]
 Description=Tududi Service
-After=network.target
+After=network.target postgresql.service
 
 [Service]
 Type=simple

tools/addon/arcane.sh

@@ -58,8 +58,21 @@ function uninstall() {
 # ==============================================================================
 # UPDATE
 # ==============================================================================
+# Arcane 3 needs the ARCANE_* names, the current latest image reads only the old ones.
+function sync_env_names() {
+  local key
+  for key in ENCRYPTION_KEY PROJECTS_DIRECTORY; do
+    grep -q "^[[:space:]]*- ARCANE_${key}=" "$COMPOSE_FILE" || sed -i "/^[[:space:]]*- ${key}=/{p;s/- ${key}=/- ARCANE_${key}=/;}" "$COMPOSE_FILE"
+    grep -q "^[[:space:]]*- ${key}=" "$COMPOSE_FILE" || sed -i "/^[[:space:]]*- ARCANE_${key}=/{p;s/- ARCANE_${key}=/- ${key}=/;}" "$COMPOSE_FILE"
+  done
+  if [[ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]]; then
+    sed -i 's/^ARCANE_#/#ARCANE_/' "$ENV_FILE"
+  fi
+}
+
 function update() {
   chown -R 65532:65532 /etc/arcane/projects /etc/arcane/builds 2>/dev/null || true
+  sync_env_names
 
   msg_info "Pulling latest ${APP} image"
   cd "$INSTALL_PATH"
@@ -85,9 +98,8 @@ function install() {
   msg_ok "Created ${INSTALL_PATH}"
 
   # Generate secrets and config values
-  local ENCRYPTION_KEY JWT_SECRET PROJ_DIR BUILDS_DIR
+  local ENCRYPTION_KEY PROJ_DIR BUILDS_DIR
   ENCRYPTION_KEY=$(random_password 32)
-  JWT_SECRET=$(random_password 32)
   PROJ_DIR="/etc/arcane/projects"
   BUILDS_DIR="/etc/arcane/builds"
 
@@ -108,20 +120,12 @@ function install() {
   curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/refs/heads/main/docker/examples/compose.basic.yaml" -o "$COMPOSE_FILE"
   msg_ok "Downloaded Docker Compose file"
 
-  msg_info "Downloading .env file"
-  curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/refs/heads/main/.env.example" -o "$ENV_FILE"
-  chmod 600 "$ENV_FILE"
-  msg_ok "Downloaded .env file"
-
-  msg_info "Configuring compose and env files"
+  msg_info "Configuring compose file"
   sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|/host/path/to/projects|'"$PROJ_DIR"'|g' "$COMPOSE_FILE"
   sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|/host/path/to/builds|'"$BUILDS_DIR"'|g' "$COMPOSE_FILE"
   sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|ENCRYPTION_KEY=.*|ENCRYPTION_KEY='"$ENCRYPTION_KEY"'|g' "$COMPOSE_FILE"
-  sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|JWT_SECRET=.*|JWT_SECRET='"$JWT_SECRET"'|g' "$COMPOSE_FILE"
-  sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|APP_URL=.*|APP_URL=http://localhost:'"$DEFAULT_PORT"'|g' "$ENV_FILE"
-  sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|ENCRYPTION_KEY=.*|#&|g' "$ENV_FILE"
-  sed -i '/^[[:space:]]*#/!s|JWT_SECRET=.*|#&|g' "$ENV_FILE"
-  msg_ok "Configured compose and env files"
+  sync_env_names
+  msg_ok "Configured compose file"
 
   msg_info "Starting ${APP}"
   cd "$INSTALL_PATH"

vm/openwrt-vm.sh

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # License: MIT
 # https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/LICENSE
 
-COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL="${COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL:-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/DevScripts/main}"
+COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL="${COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL:-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main}"
 source <(curl -fsSL "${COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_CORE_URL:-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/main}/pve/vm-core.func")
 load_functions
 
@@ -341,6 +341,18 @@ if [[ "$VM_STATE" != *stopped* ]]; then
 fi
 msg_ok "OpenWrt has shut down"
 
+# pve-bridge tags a NIC on a port of the bridge; a bridge without one only takes tags when VLAN-aware
+if [[ -n "$LAN_VLAN" && -d "/sys/class/net/${LAN_BRG}/bridge" && "$(cat "/sys/class/net/${LAN_BRG}/bridge/vlan_filtering" 2>/dev/null)" != "1" ]] &&
+  ! ls "/sys/class/net/${LAN_BRG}/brif" 2>/dev/null | grep -qE '^((eth|bond)[0-9]+|en[^.]+)(\.[0-9]+)?$'; then
+  msg_warn "LAN bridge ${LAN_BRG} has no physical port and is not VLAN-aware; the LAN NIC stays untagged"
+  LAN_VLAN=""
+fi
+if [[ -n "$VLAN" && -d "/sys/class/net/${BRG}/bridge" && "$(cat "/sys/class/net/${BRG}/bridge/vlan_filtering" 2>/dev/null)" != "1" ]] &&
+  ! ls "/sys/class/net/${BRG}/brif" 2>/dev/null | grep -qE '^((eth|bond)[0-9]+|en[^.]+)(\.[0-9]+)?$'; then
+  msg_warn "WAN bridge ${BRG} has no physical port and is not VLAN-aware; the WAN NIC stays untagged"
+  VLAN=""
+fi
+
 msg_info "Adding bridge interfaces on Proxmox side"
 qm set $VMID \
   -net0 virtio,bridge=${LAN_BRG},macaddr=${LAN_MAC}${LAN_VLAN}${MTU} \

vm/opnsense-vm.sh

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function check_disk_space() {
 }
 
 TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
-if ! check_disk_space "$TEMP_DIR" 20 && [ -d "/var/tmp" ] && check_disk_space "/var/tmp" 20; then
+if ! check_disk_space "$TEMP_DIR" 4 && [ -d "/var/tmp" ] && check_disk_space "/var/tmp" 4; then
   rm -rf "$TEMP_DIR"
   TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d /var/tmp/opnsense-vm.XXXXXX)
 fi
@@ -364,15 +364,6 @@ FREEBSD_VER="$VM_INDEX_LATEST"
 URL="$VM_INDEX_URL"
 msg_ok "Download URL: ${CL}${BL}${URL}${CL}"
 
-# Check available disk space (require at least 20GB for safety)
-if ! check_disk_space "$TEMP_DIR" 20; then
-  AVAILABLE_GB=$(df -h "$TEMP_DIR" | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}')
-  msg_error "Insufficient disk space in temporary directory ($TEMP_DIR)."
-  msg_error "Available: ${AVAILABLE_GB}, Required: ~20GB for FreeBSD image decompression."
-  msg_error "Please free up space or ensure /tmp has sufficient storage."
-  exit 214
-fi
-
 msg_info "Downloading FreeBSD Image"
 # A mirror serving an error page returns 200, so size decides whether this
 # is an image. Anything real here is far above 5 MB.
@@ -381,11 +372,12 @@ vm_fetch_image "$URL" "$CACHE_FILE" --cache --verify-xz --min-bytes $((5 * 1024
 echo -en "\e[1A\e[0K"
 msg_ok "Downloaded ${CL}${BL}$(basename "$CACHE_FILE")${CL}"
 
-# Check disk space again before decompression
-if ! check_disk_space "$TEMP_DIR" 15; then
+NEED_GB=$(($(xz --robot -l "$CACHE_FILE" | awk '$1 == "totals" {print $5}') / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 + 1))
+if ! check_disk_space "$TEMP_DIR" "$NEED_GB"; then
   AVAILABLE_GB=$(df -h "$TEMP_DIR" | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}')
-  msg_error "Insufficient disk space for decompression."
-  msg_error "Available: ${AVAILABLE_GB}, Required: ~15GB for decompressed image."
+  msg_error "Insufficient disk space for decompression in ${TEMP_DIR}."
+  msg_error "Available: ${AVAILABLE_GB}, Required: ~${NEED_GB}GB for the decompressed image."
+  msg_error "Please free up space or ensure /tmp or /var/tmp has sufficient storage."
   exit 214
 fi
 
@@ -417,7 +409,7 @@ while :; do
     alloc_delay=$((alloc_delay * 2))
     continue
   fi
-  echo -e "$alloc_err" >&2
+  msg_error "Could not allocate the EFI disk on ${STORAGE}: ${alloc_err}"
   exit 220
 done
 vm_import_disk "$VMID" "$FILE" "$STORAGE"
@@ -442,7 +434,26 @@ msg_ok "Bridge interfaces have been successfully added."
 msg_ok "Created a OPNsense VM ${CL}${BL}(${HN})"
 msg_ok "Starting OPNsense VM (the bootstrap takes 10-30 minutes)"
 $STD qm start $VMID
-sleep 180
+# The FreeBSD image prints its login prompt on the serial console too. Boot takes
+# under a minute with DHCP, each NIC without a DHCP server adds a 60s timeout.
+SERIAL_LOG="${TEMP_DIR}/serial-${VMID}.log"
+timeout 900 socat -u "UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/qemu-server/${VMID}.serial0" - >"$SERIAL_LOG" 2>/dev/null &
+SERIAL_PID=$!
+boot_wait=0
+until grep -aq 'login:' "$SERIAL_LOG" 2>/dev/null || ! kill -0 "$SERIAL_PID" 2>/dev/null; do
+  sleep 5
+  boot_wait=$((boot_wait + 5))
+done
+kill "$SERIAL_PID" 2>/dev/null || true
+if grep -aq 'login:' "$SERIAL_LOG" 2>/dev/null; then
+  msg_ok "FreeBSD booted after ${boot_wait}s"
+elif [ $boot_wait -lt 180 ]; then
+  msg_warn "Could not read the serial console, waiting 3 minutes instead"
+  sleep $((180 - boot_wait))
+else
+  msg_warn "No login prompt on the serial console after $((boot_wait / 60)) minutes; continuing"
+fi
+sleep 3
 send_line_to_vm "root"
 sleep 2
 send_line_to_vm ""

vm/truenas-vm.sh

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function truenas_iso_lookup() {
   local pre_releases=()
 
   local all_paths=$(
-    curl -sL "$BASE_URL" |
+    curl -fsSL "${_CS_CURL_RETRY[@]}" --max-time 90 "$BASE_URL" |
       grep -oE 'href="[^"]+\.iso"' |
       sed 's/href="//; s/"$//' |
       grep -vE '(MASTER|ALPHA)' |
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ function truenas_iso_lookup() {
   )
 
   while read -r path; do
+    [[ -n "$path" ]] || continue
     local filename=$(basename "$path")
     local version=$(echo "$filename" | sed -E 's/.*TrueNAS-SCALE-([0-9]{2}\.[0-9]{2}(\.[0-9]+)*(-RC[0-9]|-BETA[0-9])?)\.iso.*/\1/')
     if [[ "$version" =~ (RC|BETA) ]]; then
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ post_to_api_vm
 vm_select_storage "$HN"
 
 if [ -z "${SELECTED_ISO:-}" ]; then
-  SELECTED_ISO=$(truenas_iso_lookup | grep -vE 'RC|BETA' | sort -V | tail -n 1)
+  SELECTED_ISO=$(truenas_iso_lookup | grep -vE 'RC|BETA' | sort -V | tail -n 1) || true
 
   if [ -z "$SELECTED_ISO" ]; then
     msg_error "Could not find a stable ISO for fallback."