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    Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode

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      shadow4dog
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      I've been trying out 2.4 beta snapshots with my pfSense SG 2440 and about once a day it crashes with this error message. If I revert to 2.3.2 or for that matter 2.3.3 it is rock solid stable.

      Does this look more like a hardware issue or an issue with a driver and my hardware?

      Grateful for any in-site.

      Thanks
      Tim
      pfsensecrash20170119.txt

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        athurdent
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        Looks a lot like my issue, you might want to try this:

        Add

        hw.igb.num_queues=1
        

        to

        /boot/loader.conf.local
        

        and reboot.

        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=123957.msg684569#msg684569

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          shadow4dog
          last edited by

          athurdent: Thank you.

          I'd followed your thread with interest. I've also applied those options and rebooted. Hopefully it will stop the instability.

          Thanks
          Tim

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            athurdent
            last edited by

            Just curious, is the system stable now?

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              shadow4dog
              last edited by

              Hi arthurdent,

              I've had zero issues since setting hw.igb.num_queues=1.

              I guess that issue will have to be fixed by the FreeBSD guys?

              Thanks
              Tim

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                athurdent
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                Thans for the quick response. :)
                Lets hope the pfSense developers find something. As you are using official gear I took the liberty to open a ticket.
                https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7149

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                  shadow4dog
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                  That sounds sensible. Thank you for your help.

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                    athurdent
                    last edited by

                    Might be fixed now: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7149

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                      shadow4dog
                      last edited by

                      I removed the entry in loader.conf.local and rebooted.

                      After days of no restarts at all it decided to reboot at 4am this morning. The log says the root user did a restart 15, whatever that means.

                      It's been running for the last few hours without a panic though and I'll leave it running for a day or so.

                      Tim

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