log reading to find out why my fw crashed
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hey all,
Been using pfsense for a few years.. never EVER had a crash due to pfsense.. always been rock-solid.
last night, outta nowhere, my firewall started crashing.. at least 1/2 dozen or more times and it makes no sense to me.When it locked up, it locked up HARD.. couldn't web in to the admin console, wouldn't respond to pings. only thing i could do was power-cycle.
i was installing/updating a linux box i just built. all was working fine up until that, all was working fine after, all is working fine today including at this moment. it was just during that stuff i was doing with the linux box. doesn't make a drop of sense.
as i said, i was just doing updates, downloading packages, that's it.. even if there was more, nothing like that should cause it to lock up.in retrospect, i should've written down the times each lock up occurred so i could narrow it all down in the logs.
Anywho, i don't know what to look for or which logs to look at. can anyone give me an idea?
the firewall is built from a dell optiplex 3050 with 32Gs ram, an i5-7500 cpu and an intel i350T2V2.
short of holding a blow torch outside the case, it's not gonna over-heat. i installed a large heatsink on the nic with a fan attached.
the highest temp i observed from the cpu during the crashes was ~50c.
packages are: pfblockerng-dev, suricata, squid proxy (for clamav).. hmmmmm i wonder if that's it.. could the squid cache overflow from all the downloads be causing the problem?Thanks in advance for your input!
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@jc1976 said in log reading to find out why my fw crashed:
hmmmmm i wonder if that's it.. could the squid cache overflow from all the downloads be causing the problem?
Sadly, it sounds more like a hardware issue...how is the hard-drive? If you're using Squid for the antivirus, I doubt it.
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Do you have a crash report? It was kernel panicking?
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@NollipfSense said in log reading to find out why my fw crashed:
@jc1976 said in log reading to find out why my fw crashed:
hmmmmm i wonder if that's it.. could the squid cache overflow from all the downloads be causing the problem?
Sadly, it sounds more like a hardware issue...how is the hard-drive? If you're using Squid for the antivirus, I doubt it.
I'm sorry for getting back so late..
it couldn't have been a hardware issue as all has been fine since.. absolutely zero problems. it had something to do with setting up that linux box and running updates. no idea why.. and it was long enough ago that i don't remember it all, but after reading through my original post to the end where i wondered if it had something to do with the caching of updates and maybe the cache became full and it caused a kernel panic? no idea.. pfsense on that little dell has been so reliable that it almost works against me in that since there aren't any problems, there's no impetus for me to learn how to decipher the logs..
anywho, i ended up going a different route with building my media server, using win10 ltsc IoT because the various applications i was going to be running, that was just a better route to go over debian. (sonarr/radarr/lidarr/nzbget, handbrake & makemkv, and plex server are all first and foremost made to run on windows)..
just wish i knew how to read the logs..
