The pfsense 2.9 system update ui stops working after installing pfSense-2.9.0-pkg-RESTAPI.pkg

[hankiet]

I installed this package with this command
pkg-static add https://github.com/pfrest/pfSense-pkg-RESTAPI/releases/latest/download/pfSense-2.9.0-pkg-RESTAPI.pkg

After installing pfSense-2.9.0-pkg-RESTAPI.pkg, now when I click on Pfsense System Update, I got this error message

Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

amd64
16.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT #12 RELENG_2_9_0-n256132-d8e3138ecf52: Mon Aug 17 18:50:13 UTC 2026 root@pfsense-build-release-amd64-2.eng.atx.netgate.com:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_9_0-main/obj/amd64/XcuObCIF/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[24-Aug-2026 12:51:26 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 12:54:57 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 13:02:42 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 13:03:11 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 13:10:56 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 13:11:04 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 13:11:18 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425
[24-Aug-2026 13:15:57 America/Montreal] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: gettext(): Argument #1 ($message) is too long in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php:425
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php(425): gettext()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/pkg_mgr_install.php on line 425

No FreeBSD crash data found.

[jaredhendrickson13]

Thanks for reporting this. I'm not able to reproduce this currently on a 2.9.0 VM. That page seems to load fine after installing the package.

Looking at the code that traceback is pointing to, it's failing to translate a message seemingly sourced from Netgate's repos. Doesn't seem directly related to the package install or the package itself.

Does running pkg-static update give you any errors? And does the error go away after removing the package?

[hankiet]

Yes, if I uninstall pfSense-2.9.0-pkg-RESTAPI.pkg my pfsense update works