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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Plus 23.01 Development Snapshots (Retired)
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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      When you reset the config to factory defaults it's exactly that; the config file is replaced by the default config. So, yes, potentially there could be many things left behind.

      If you run at the command line: top -HaSP can you see what's being run once a minute to trigger this?

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        Maff @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10

        just for testing i have concluded nothing i have configured or installed is causing this

        just gone through a fresh hard drive in my hardware, pfsense 2.6ce installed, upgraded to 22.01, upgrade to 22.05 upgrade to 23.01rc and error is there

        another fresh hard drive, 2.6ce installed, upgrade to 22.01 then straight to 23.01rc and the error is there

        Only things configured was wan connection and basic default lan

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          Maff
          last edited by Maff

          Am also kinda a novice when it comes to Linux etc, alway trying to learn, I am not sure what I am looking for in the output of that command

          Was a lot of things flashing up constantly but didnโ€™t see any refresh to anything in the error output

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Ah, interesting. So this appears to be something hardware or network related.

            What are you running this on? How is the network setup that it's connected to?

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              Maff @stephenw10
              last edited by Maff

              @stephenw10

              Running on a Lenovo m720q with a intel 9500t cpu, 16 gig of ram, network card is intel x710-t2l

              Port one is dhcp setup to cable modem in modem mode 2.5gbs link

              Port 2 is the basic lan setup you go through when installing pfsense 10gb link

              Not noticed any issue with this hardware on 22.05

              Maybe some form of sensor not working right in the new kernel?

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                SteveITS Galactic Empire @Maff
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                @maff said in flock() error after upgrading:

                Linux

                FreeBSD in this case ๐Ÿ˜‰
                top shows running processes.

                Question: does it happen if you're NOT displaying the dashboard? Logged out of the web GUI?

                Is the config file on disk growing in size or changing time stamps? (/conf/config.xml)

                Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
                When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Mmm, that's a good question. Something that could be configured to update once a minute like that might be a dashboard widget.

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                    Does anyone seeing this have some kind of off-firewall monitoring system that probes the firewall once per minute? Maybe some kind of third party integration / tacked on "API" that is leveraging xmlrpc.php?

                    Nothing in the base system queries that file except for HA sync, and HA sync would not be triggered that often.

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                      blathierry @jimp
                      last edited by

                      @jimp I use the home assistant integration and uptime kuma. Is that causing it?

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        How is that querying? SNMP? Some plugin code?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Yeah, it almost certainly is that. See: https://forum.netgate.com/post/1081590

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                            blathierry @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10 https://github.com/travisghansen/hass-pfsense

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              Drop to a shell and run tail -F /var/log/nginx.log and watch a bit and see what is hitting xmlrpc.php and trace back from there. You could also grep through the older log entries to see.

                              You can also look at / search the log from the GUI (Status > System Logs, System tab, GUI Service sub-tab), but doing so can be tricky since accessing the GUI will add more entries to the log potentially pushing the older entries off.

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                                renegade @blathierry
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                                @blathierry said in flock() error after upgrading:

                                @jimp I use the home assistant integration and uptime kuma. Is that causing it?

                                Interesting! I use the HA Integration also!
                                But from my understanding the integration polls the status every 30 seconds. The error seems to occur more often than every 30 seconds.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  I note that code saw updates as recently as today. Are you running the current version?

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    Anyone hitting this, try installing the System Patches package and then create an entry for 053f60e56d09ba711af245c7f0ce6a06673ccc89 to apply the fix.

                                    Or apply this diff/change by hand:

                                    diff --git a/src/etc/inc/util.inc b/src/etc/inc/util.inc
                                    index f838f6b540..2636fb4aec 100644
                                    --- a/src/etc/inc/util.inc
                                    +++ b/src/etc/inc/util.inc
                                    @@ -169,12 +169,13 @@ function try_lock($lock, $timeout = 5) {
                                     }
                                     
                                     /* unlock configuration file */
                                    -function unlock($cfglckkey = 0) {
                                    -	if (!is_null($cfglckkey)) {
                                    -		@flock($cfglckkey, LOCK_UN);
                                    -		@fclose($cfglckkey);
                                    -	}
                                    -	return;
                                    +function unlock($cfglckkey = 0)
                                    +{
                                    +	if (!is_resource($cfglckkey))
                                    +		return;
                                    +
                                    +	flock($cfglckkey, LOCK_UN);
                                    +	fclose($cfglckkey);
                                     }
                                     
                                     /* unlock forcefully configuration file */
                                    

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                                      Maff @jimp
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                                      @jimp

                                      Thanks for looking further into this, needed a break from messing around, will test this later and I completely forgot about the home assistant project I was looking into, will test this soon as I can

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                                        blathierry @stephenw10
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                                        @stephenw10 Yeah, newest version still does it sadly. I updated both of them. I disabled the home assistant integration for now.. I hope the maintainer will fix it soon, it's very unexpected.

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Try the diff above. What the HA integration is doing should work with that. They are just hitting a code path that pfSense never normally does. It isn't necessarily wrong, something that needs updating.

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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            I spun up a Home Assistant VM, setup HACS and added the pfSense integration. Pointed it at a 23.01 install and immediately saw the errors in question. Applied the lock patch above and haven't seen a single error since.

                                            Looks good to me. It should be in the next build.

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