Pfsense hangs after replacing hdd from zfs pool
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Yes that seems to be only work around. I shall try that tomorrow morning (its 50 past midnight, here in India)
So I have this system (now upgraded to 2.5.2) with captive portal and freeradius installed. I have around 250 users created with freeradius. I was trying to avoid creating these IDs again.
So what would be best way to take backup of these users and restore in new system.
I have few other packages like openvpn client, shellcmd, sudo, cron and mailreports installed. But these are not much of work. I can configure them again if required.
Thanks for all the input.
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@ashima
If the system was running zfs under 2.4.x and was updated to 2.5.2, it may be safer to backup and re-install. From my recollection, there were many changes related to zfs in recent versions. This may cause problems with older zfs installs. -
I'm not aware of anything that would cause a problem specifically but I would still re-install clean coming from 2.4.X if you can.
Steve
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@dotdash Well I was facing the issue with 2.4.5 so thats when I decided to upgrade to 2.5.2. But the problem persist,
Another thing I noticed after running "zpool scrub" my original hard drive gave 13 Checksum error, so I just did "zpool clean" and the error disappeared.
What's surprising is that the booting sequence stops midway
"Configuring Firewall...done" and pressing any key reboots the system. I guess "Generating RRD graph ..." doesn't happen.As suggested by all of you I am planning to do a fresh installation on the two new drives. Is there any way I can transfer the users (freeradius) to new system.
BTW I have plenty of Pfsense sites which I upgraded from 2.4.5 to 2.5.2 remotely and all of them were on zfs. No issues so for. Is there any thing I need to take care for my remaining sites or should I stick to 2.4.5 for the rest of the sites.
Do share your feedback for freeradius users restoring in new system,
Regards,
Ashima -
The Freeradius user data is all stored in the main config file. When you restore that all package data should also be restored.
Steve
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Thanks @stephenw10 .
So I booted my device with the original drive and took a Cloud Backup (Thanks to pfsense team for providing this facility).
Hooked two new drives. Install a fresh copy, downloaded all the packages and restored configuration from the backup. OMG the device was as original.... all my settings and my users IDs were there. But then I couldn't login through captive portal (using freeradius2 for authentication) page. I guess its not authenticating or some SSL issue. Couldn't get enough time to solve the issue. I guess I'll start a new thread in case I fail to do so.
Meanwhile if someone has any pointers for freeradius2 issue please do reply back. That'll save me lot of work for Monday Morning.Regards,
Ashima -
@ashima said in Pfsense hangs after replacing hdd from zfs pool:
some SSL issue.
My bet would be
and in this case you are not in as much trouble as you think
I wish you a good job
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@DaddyGo Thanks for response.
So if SSL issue...
I need to create new freeradius certificate and need freeradius2 configuration (I guess EAP tab) to point to new certificates.Is that right ?
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It depends how/why it's failing. If that config works on the old device I would expect it to work here too. The MAC addresses will be different so clients may see it as a new network. Perhaps they are simply using the wrong stored logins?
First make sure you can authenticate against Freeradius from Diag Auth.
Steve
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@stephenw10 ... it finally worked.
Created new CA/Certificates for Freeradius.
Created new CA/certificates for Captive Portal.Finally what actually worked :
User Manage : Authentication Server : Selected Radius Server and saved it again.And every thing started working. Kept it under testing (finger crossed)
