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    pfSense 2.6 problem with zombie processes

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Ok, lets get a bug report open to track this.

      What steps are required to replicate this?

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      • gofaizenG
        gofaizen @stephenw10
        last edited by gofaizen

        @stephenw10
        I have installed pfSense 2.5 from ISO on virtual machine in oVirt 4.4.5, then I have upgraded it to 2.6 from WEB interface. Then I added qemu-guest agent using this instruction - https://forum.netgate.com/topic/162083/pfsense-vm-on-proxmox-qemu-agent-installation
        And got the problem, described above.

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        • gofaizenG
          gofaizen @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10
          I want to try fresh installation pfSense 2.6 and test qemu-guest-agent.

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          • gofaizenG
            gofaizen @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10
            In fresh installation of pfSense 2.6 same result

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Hmm, struggling to replicate this in Proxmox.
              Using the linked instructions the guest-agent starts and gives me IP information only.

              Using the additional flags -b guest-get-fsinfo -D it fails to start at all.

              I will say this is unsupported/untested. It's unlikely to see any developer time.

              Steve

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                It returns correctly when run manually though:

                root@pve:~# qm agent 110 get-fsinfo
                [
                   {
                      "disk" : [],
                      "mountpoint" : "/var/run",
                      "name" : "tmpfs",
                      "total-bytes" : 4194304,
                      "type" : "tmpfs",
                      "used-bytes" : 118784
                   },
                   {
                      "disk" : [],
                      "mountpoint" : "/",
                      "name" : "/dev/mirror/pfSenseMirrors1a",
                      "total-bytes" : 7259652096,
                      "type" : "ufs",
                      "used-bytes" : 1825689600
                   }
                ]
                

                Do you not see that?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  ....but that does seem to create zombie processes each time each run. OK.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Ok, this actually looks like a known issue that is still open for some reason:
                    https://github.com/aborche/qemu-guest-agent/issues/17

                    https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260023

                    Waiting to be fixed upstream.

                    Steve

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                    • gofaizenG
                      gofaizen @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10
                      Option -D for qemu-ga is to produce config only.
                      With this option qemu-ga shows config and quits.

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                      • gofaizenG
                        gofaizen @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10
                        I don't understand - why qemu-ga in FreeBSD shows me everything in oVirt engine interface and pfSense shows only some information ?
                        They have identical config.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Mmm, the same port version though? 5.0.1?

                          From what I can see that fix should be in 5.0.1_1 and that hasn't arrived in FreeBSD yet.

                          How are you querying the agent?

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