SOLVED Unable to find template! for standard FreeBSD jail in FreeNAS 9.10

[jemus42]

My system:

- FreeNAS-9.10.1 (d989edd)
- Fresh install, meaning I literally installed a fresh FreeNAS on new hardware yesterday.
- Working internet connectivity on host, can ping and dig domains
- Internet working for plugins too, have a Bittorrent Sync plugin jail running flawlessy currently syncing my old data to the new machine

What I want to to:

- Install a standard FreeBSD jail for general purpose use (install software via pkg, for example)

Problem:

Since I could not find a standard jail template in the GUI (only virtualbox), I manually added the following jail template:

Template name: Tried various because I suspected errors, e.g. "freebsd10"
URL: http://download.freenas.org/jails/10/x64/freenas-standard-10.3-RELEASE.tgz
mtree: http://download.freenas.org/jails/10/x64/freenas-standard-10.3-RELEASE.mtree

See screenshot of jail template UI: http://dump.jemu.name/F0NBR.png

I found this blogpost which apparently used the same method successfully: https://www.kirkg.us/posts/running-an-openvpn-server-in-a-freenas-910-jail/

I tried Jails -> new jail -> advanced -> select template described above. FreeNAS proceeds to download the jail template (presumably), I see a progress bar of the download. After the download is completed (progress bar full), the Error message "Unable to find template!" appears above the jail creation dialog.

I have tried this multiple times for different jail template names, jail names, and I tried substituting the jail template URL with a bare IP (I pinged download.freenas.org from the FreeNAS host and used that IP), all of which failed.

I have also tried the non-advanced jail creation settings, simply selection a jail name. It appeared to download a standard FreeBSD jail as I would have wanted anyway, but the resulting error was the same.

Then I added a jail template for a 9.3 standard jail because I'm desparate to get to the bottom of this, and unexpectedly that worked. I now have a standard 9.3 jail on my FreeNAS 9.10 host which doesn't to me any good because pkg doesn't work due to the version mismatch, I presume.

While searching for solutions, I found this bug report: https://bugs.pcbsd.org/issues/11055 with the possible solution of replacing ix-warden in the comments, which I tried, but it didn't work as well.

I'm comfortable with the shell, so if I can run any diagnostic command that would help solve this problem, I'm happy to follow any instructions.
I am also willing to retry my current approach and document anything you think might help solve this.

Thanks!

 

[jemus42]

I … I don't know what to say.

I deleted the template I created, went to the jail creation GUI in basic (i.e. non-advanced) mode, entered a jail name and now it apparently installed the standard jail I wanted all along.

I have no idea why it now seems to work, but apparently I shouldn't have bothered with the manually created template all long.
Leaving this here for users who might make my mistake.

I'm so sorry m)

 

[vinchi007]

I had exactly the same issue and it seems removing Templates helped to create a Jail. I'm using 9.10.3U6 rel