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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Indeed if it doesn't show 'apply' that means it cannot be applied.

      What are version are you trying to patch?

      You are using this commit ID in the patch? afcc0e9c97c1993ae6b95f886665fcb4375d26c7

      Steve

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      • fireodoF
        fireodo @stephenw10
        last edited by

        @stephenw10 said in "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?:

        What are version are you trying to patch?

        2.5.2

        You are using this commit ID in the patch? afcc0e9c97c1993ae6b95f886665fcb4375d26c7

        Yes.

        Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
        SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
        pfsense 2.8.0 CE
        Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Hmm, that should work, I just retested it to be sure. The only reason it wouldn't is if you already have some other changes to the files it's trying to patch.

          Steve

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          • fireodoF
            fireodo @stephenw10
            last edited by fireodo

            @stephenw10 said in "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?:

            The only reason it wouldn't is if you already have some other changes to the files it's trying to patch.

            You're probably right - its not so important for me ...

            Edit1: Found the culprit (its me) - I changed the rc.bootup manually with the modifications that came with the patch some time before ... ๐Ÿค“ ๐Ÿ‘‹

            Edit2: I revert the changes I made and now the Patch applies correctly.

            Sorry!

            Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
            SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
            pfsense 2.8.0 CE
            Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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              ozone @jimp
              last edited by

              @jimp Just noting that saving the page with the newly present box unchecked was enough to stop the service. It did not require a reboot.

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                dereitz
                last edited by

                I was investigating why my pfsense box was using over 6GB of "laundry memory" and additionally was using swap space and finally ran across this thread. Sure enough, pcscd was running on my box and was the culprit. Thanks to this thread, I was able to disable the service and immediately my memory usage went back to normal!

                Another great catch by the community.. Thank you all!
                -David

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                • SjMS
                  SjM
                  last edited by SjM

                  This is interesting.

                  2.5.2-RELEASE (amd64)
                  built on Fri Jul 02 15:33:00 EDT 2021
                  FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE

                  pfBlockerNG was starting cron jobs which didn't complete to the extent that it was consuming 100% of CPU time. Couldn't figure out what was going awry. I came across this discussion and saw the process pcscd was running on my system. After I killed pcscd the system is behaving as it should on about 4-7% CPU utilization!

                  Weird.

                  Next thing is how do I apply the patch to stop pcscd loading at startup? I don't seem to have the option to apply a patch under the system menu of pfSense.

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                    mcury @SjM
                    last edited by

                    @sjm Install this package:

                    a1578b45-5ec6-4504-b074-51378a178fd9-image.png

                    Then apply the patch afcc0e9c97c1993ae6b95f886665fcb4375d26c7

                    dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                    • SjMS
                      SjM @mcury
                      last edited by

                      @mcury laughing just discovered the very thing. ๐Ÿ‘

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                      • SjMS
                        SjM @mcury
                        last edited by

                        @mcury how many path levels do I need to strip? 1??

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                          mcury @SjM
                          last edited by

                          @sjm I left everything default settings..

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                          dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                          • SjMS
                            SjM @mcury
                            last edited by

                            @mcury pfSense is again purring along like it should.

                            Many thanks!

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                              bluepill
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for this thread - like others it has helped me a lot.

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                                drees @mcury
                                last edited by

                                Thanks, applying the patch and stopping/started IPsec fixed the issue for me.

                                Not sure how long it was going on, but I found two different pfSense boxes (a SG-1100 and SG-3100) with a site-to-site IPsec VPN with this issue. On the SG-3100, we were seeing weird delays/pauses in OpenVPN traffic. Logging in we saw high CPU load and found the characteristic large number of bzip2 processes compressing ipsec logs. On the SG-1100, didn't really notice anything, but did find that the snmp daemon had died.

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                                  PeteRage
                                  last edited by

                                  Ran into this problem also. Disabled the daemon. My next step is to establish site-to-site ipsec tunnel. Is this pcscd required to establish an ip-sec tunnel?

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                                    SteveITS Galactic Empire @PeteRage
                                    last edited by

                                    @peterage said in "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?:

                                    Is this pcscd required to establish an ip-sec tunnel

                                    No.

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                                    • chudakC
                                      chudak
                                      last edited by

                                      "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" is gone in 2.6.0!!!

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @chudak
                                        last edited by

                                        @chudak said in "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?:

                                        "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" is gone in 2.6.0!!!

                                        It's still there, just disabled by default. If someone needs it they can enable it.

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                                        • chudakC
                                          chudak @jimp
                                          last edited by

                                          @jimp that's what I meant :)

                                          Thank you !

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