pfTop Core Dumped

cpierce69

Hello, new user to the forum, been using CE for many years. Recently I decided to upgrade to PfSense Plus - running
23.01-Release (amd64)
FreeBSD 14.0-Current
I have used pfTop without issue, but now after the upgrade, i am getting the following:
kernel pid xxxxx (pftop), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)

The hardware is the same as it has been for about a year, no issues ever. It will work for about a minute, then happens. Basically on the console, the screen freezes, and it retries to redraw the menu over but makes a mess. the console is essentially stuck, but can still access the GUI, and ssh also works. Does not seem to impact anything.
If i do a reboot with a file check - it says clean and does say no core dumps found.

Any ideas?

stephenw10

Do you have a crash report? Or does it not actually crash?

cpierce69

Thats the odd thing, it does not crash the system, as it will continue to function except for ttyv0. the other virtual terminals ttyv1-8 are still accessible and all continues to function as expected. I also checked
/var/crash and there is nothing there
/var/log i was looking for a messages file but does not exist.
in the /var/log/system.log all that is in that file is a single line reference of
kernel pid xxxxx (pftop), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)

One interesting thing to note, is that the only place that i seem to get a core dump is via the console running pftop using this option
9) pfTop

If i run pfTOP from the webportal it runs for hours without any issue.

its little annoying things like this that makes me wish i stayed on CE, but i wanted to be on the later version of BSD :(

stephenw10

Does it do it if you run pftop from the command line directly rather than via the menu?
Though the menu simply calls /usr/local/sbin/pftop it could be something different in the environment. Seems unlikely.
The gui page pulls the output fro pftop periodically. So it probably avoid some resource limit.

Is it on any particular view that it coredumps?

I've been trying and failing to replicate it here.

cpierce69

@stephenw10
Thanks for the feedback and the specific path to run it from. So here is what i did.
putty - ssh to pfsense
at the menu selected shell
at the prompt ran /usr/local/sbin/pftop
it ran for about 10 minutes then this

The difference from the pftop menu option and running from command line is that the connection was still responsive. I did not have to Ctrl-C several times to recover/exit.

I still have an open/unresolved issue with packages not resolving and updates failing. I may just go back to CE, kinda disappointing. I did not signup for TAC support option, so my only avenue for assistance is this forum.

stephenw10

Hmm, it just keeps running for me in 23.01. You're just viewing the default screen?