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    Issue with SG-3100 and 22.01? [Solved]

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      FSC830
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      Yes, was my first thought that an interface is not working properly, but how can that be? The device was powered on, so in my understanding there cant be an old gateway?
      Will boot up the appliance in an isolated network later and check the settings.
      In dashboard the WAN interface was reported as good (no packet loss to monitoring gateway).

      Regards

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        FSC830
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        This morning device updated to 22.05.
        We will see, if this "frozen" status will appear again in the next weeks...
        Hopefully not. 🕶

        Regards

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          pwyde
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          Also updated my SG-3100 to 22.05 today. Will find out if issue is resolved in about 3-4 weeks.

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            FSC830
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            @pwyde You've got a m.2 sata disk, mine is still runnig at eMMC.
            Have the m.2 here, but did not found the time to install them.
            But if yours with m.2 and mine with eMMC shows the same freezes, my guess is thats not to an unresponsive disk as suspected. We will see, usually within 3, max. 4 weeks the issue occurred since 22.01.

            Regards

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              If the storage goes away during runtime you will see a bunch or errors on the console if you're logging that.

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                FSC830
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                Logging was enabled all the time, but there is still ... nothing.
                When rebooting device every line is recorded again, until next freeze.
                I am always logged in and viewing the dashboard in GUI, so a login is also not recorded.
                When device freezes, GUI is 404 error(?), and console is still without any error/issue/event.

                Regards

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Is it actually 404 because that is a response indicating the web server is still running?

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                    FSC830
                    last edited by FSC830

                    Actually I cant remember if it was really 404...😞 .
                    But now I have noticed another strange "issue?"...

                    Just looked up the memory use, and noticed a big difference of usage from 22.01 compared to 22.05.
                    Can someone confirm this behaviour?
                    In 22.05 memory usage is signifcant higher?
                    22.01 free abt 80%, 22.05 abt 30%?
                    And the "inactive" vice versa from 7.5% to 60%?

                    FW_2205_memory_a.png

                    Regards

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                      pwyde @FSC830
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                      @fsc830

                      For me it was not 404, but website could not be reached.

                      I have the exact same memory usage as you, comparing 22.01 and 22.05.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Has it been rebooted since the update? The update process itself uses a lot of RAM. That would normally be freed over time or if required. Rebooting it should show similar usage to 22.01.

                        Steve

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                          FSC830
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                          🤐 an EBKAC error ... (Error Between Keyboard And Chair)

                          Just rebootet:

                          FW_2205_memory_b.png

                          Regards

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                            FSC830
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                            I am rather sure I found the cause for the issue.. 😕
                            Today it was (nearly) the same, no internet access, no name resolution, but pfSense GUI was still available. That was slighty different. And a running internet stream was still active!?

                            Anyhow, the appliance was rebootet at July 2nd after installing v22.05.
                            And since then I used the widget for the used disk capacity.
                            Some months ago (could be shortly after installing 22.01) I used the option "use RAM disks" for /tmp and /var.

                            Since last reboot I noticed, that /var is getting more and more full. I was curious if there is any process which frees up filesystem at a certain level.
                            No, it wasnt. This morning /var was filled up by 100% (may be 99.99% and thats, why it was slighty different this time).

                            Anyhow, administration via GUI was possible and I disabled the RAM disks.
                            Now I am curious, what will happen next, in Disk widget there is only / (root) and /var/run visible.
                            With 22.05 I installed also a m2.ssd with 128gb, my guess is, that this should not run out of space- hopefully. 😊

                            Regards

                            Edit: nothing seen at console, last entry was a login notification from July 12th, and next is the reboot from today. At least I have had expected some warning about the 100% file system usage.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @FSC830
                              last edited by

                              @fsc830 said in Issue with SG-3100 and 22.01?:

                              This morning /var was filled up by 100% (may be 99.99% and thats, why it was slighty different this time).

                              Ah, yes, that would do it. You will find services start to fail slowly as they cannot restart.

                              If you enable RAM disks you need to be aware of the reduced space and that fact that some packages are expected to work with them.
                              What RAM disks sizes are you using? What packages do you have installed?

                              Something is probably logging in an uncontrolled manner, not cycling the logs correctly.

                              Steve

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                                FSC830
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                                Hi Steve,

                                RAM disk size was set to double of the default values, 80 and 120 MB (default 40/60).
                                Installed packages:
                                apcuspd
                                cron (installed, but yet not used)
                                ipsec profile wizard
                                mailreport
                                nut
                                openvpn wizard
                                pfBlockerNG
                                Snort
                                Status Traffic Totals
                                System Patches (patches still existing after latest update: IPsec PKCS#11 support as an optional feature and Hide pcscd service from the service list if IPsec PKCS11 | support is disabled)
                                Wireguard

                                But RAM disk is disabled now.

                                Regards

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Ah, yeah almost certainly Snort there. Really the Snort and Suricata packages are not expected to work with RAM disks. It's possible but you have to have to be very careful configuring it.

                                  Steve

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                                    FSC830 @stephenw10
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                                    I am convinced the RAM disk full situation was causing the whole issue at my end.
                                    System is now up and running for 30 days, since enabling the RAM disk the runtime was not longer than 20/21 days.
                                    Now, with disabled RAM disk, the system uptime exceeds this timeline clearly.
                                    I remember that the uptime prior the update to 22.01 was 180 days (or something around that).
                                    With the update to 22.01 I enabled RAM disk usage, that was a mistake. 🙄

                                    Is there a way to mark the thread "solved"? I did not find any option for that.

                                    Regards

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @FSC830
                                      last edited by

                                      @fsc830 said in Issue with SG-3100 and 22.01?:

                                      Is there a way to mark the thread "solved"?

                                      No, but I can edit the title if you wish?

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                                        FSC830 @stephenw10
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                                        @stephenw10
                                        Yes, go ahead please and add a - solved at the end (or at the beginning). 😊

                                        Regards

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