pfSense UniFi controller stuck adopting

Tue 23 February 2016
By mute

Java is suppose to be cross-platform but in the case of the UniFi controller, that is not true. There is a snappy-java-1.0.5.jar which doesn't include FreeBSD/amd64 native libraries and thus doesn't work under pfSense. You'll notice this when you upgrade a UAP from 3.2.12.2920 to 3.3.17.3991. The inform url now requires the snappy compression I guess and if you sniff the traffic or look at logs you'll see a 500 failure and a trace about snappy. Just grab the one from the pkg system or, as I did:

wget http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/release_1/All/snappyjava-1.0.4.1_1.txz
tar vfx snappyjava-1.0.4.1_1.txz
cp ./usr/local/share/java/classes/snappy-java.jar /usr/local/UniFi/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar

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