TailScale hangs - can't restart the service or PFSense
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I have had the tailscale package installed and working on several PFSense boxes with no issues until now. One client PFSense box now shows itself as being off-line in the tailscale admin console. I can still get to the box via an IPSEC tunnel and when I looked at services and it showed that TailScale was running - I then tried TailScale Status and received a blank page and whirling icon that indicated the process was working. After 15 minutes where everything stayed static, I was able to break out of the process and get back to the dashboard. I then tried to restart PFSense. This just resulted in a 504 bad gateway error and no ability to now access the webgui. I SSHed into the box and tried to restart from there. PFSense spent 30 + minutes trying to stop TailScale before I also broke out of that process I can still get to the box via SSH and the rest of PFSense continues to work. I'm obviously going to need to travel to the site and do a hard restart, but before I do that, I'd like to see if I can collect any data to help determine the cause, but have no idea how to get the needed diagnostic data. I'll have to retrieve if via the shell, so what data should I collect and what commands can I execute to retrieve it?
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@kitdavis Im stuck with this issue too, happens every few days after a restart and havent been able to find anything in the logs before and after. Its worth noting that I am not sure what I am looking for in the logs either. Hoping someone who knows whats going on can comment on this.
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This continues to be a problem - I have 2 pfsense FWs now that currently are waiting for me to physically restart them. (only a hard power off and restart works - the firewall can not be restarted from the GUI or the console).
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If you can SSH into the device as Admin/root, there is a way to avoid a hard reboot. Issuing the command below fixed this 'hanging' issue for us.
service tailscaled restart && service pfsense_tailscaled restart -
Three weeks ago I had attempted a remote restart of my pfSense CE Router (Zimaboard 432) and to my surprise the restart NEVER completed...
Back on Site, a restart from the Console was NOT completing, where I could see that it was the shutdown of the Tailscale Service which was "Hanging", therefore preventing the my Restart Attempts (even Shutdowns would NOT complete)!!!
The only way I found where I could restart/shutdown my pfSense CE, was to pull power on the Zimaboard 432, effecting a Cold Boot???
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I too have had this issue today.
The ssh session hung at "Stopping Tailscale"
I found a "reboot" from shell worked.Has anyone found a fix to stop this?
