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    Fresh install of 2.7 on new hardware then restorng setting from my old hardware running 2.5.2. PHP errors, system crashes and reboots, very unstable

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      mc866 @stephenw10
      last edited by mc866

      @stephenw10 I ran a few fsck loops and keep getting system marked dirty.

      I also ran a reboot from the console (#5) with F and that seems to come back clean but when I run fsck after that I seem to get errors that come back such as bad magic number & unexpected soft update inconsistency.

      I also booted into a live instance of ubuntu and ran fsck there as well as check file system from the disk utility and it check out as OK.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        It could potentially be a bad drive then. But make sure you run fsck at least 5 times from single user mode in pfSense to be sure.

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          mc866 @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 Yes I ran it 5 times, a couple of times now LOL.

          Seems like the results are very inconsistent.

          Does a dirty drive mean it's bad or has errors?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            If the filesystem cannot be cleaned or keeps becoming corrupt then, yes that could be a bad drive. But I have seen the same thing on older hardware with simply a lose connector.

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              mc866 @stephenw10
              last edited by mc866

              @stephenw10

              So I purchased a new nvme drive to test that out. I'm getting immediate errors again even with a fresh install of 2.7 and then a restore with no installed packages

              I've added new dump files to the nextcloud share

              Also noticed this in the logs and finally captured it.
              As I stated I removed the packages from the XML but this is showing up as though the system is trying to pull down info as part of pfblocker

              Oct 13 15:06:19 php-fpm 86183 /rc.update_urltables: : ERROR: could not update pfB_PRI1_v4 content from https://127.0.0.1:443/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php?pfb=pfB_PRI1_v4

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                That pfBlocker can sometimes happen at boot before the lists have been fetched. It's not normally an issue.

                Those crash reports all show filesystem issues still. It could be an issue with the board firmware. Is it running the latest BIOS?

                Do you see those errors before you restore the old config?

                Steve

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                  mc866 @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10

                  No errors on the old machine at all.

                  I've purchased another machine to try/test and just did a fresh install and system restore.

                  Just got this error on the new-new hardware. Looks like it's similar to the other machine

                  Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

                  amd64
                  14.0-CURRENT
                  FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #1 RELENG_2_7_0-n255866-686c8d3c1f0: Wed Jun 28 04:21:19 UTC 2023 root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_7_0-main/obj/amd64/LwYAddCr/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_7_0-main/sources/FreeBSD-src-REL

                  Crash report details:

                  PHP Errors:
                  [13-Oct-2023 16:37:00 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: string / int in /etc/inc/util.inc:2409
                  Stack trace:
                  #0 /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc(1902): get_memory()
                  #1 /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php(104): pfsense_default_state_size()
                  #2 /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php(35): get_pfstate()
                  #3 /usr/local/www/getstats.php(40): get_stats(Array)
                  #4 {main}
                  thrown in /etc/inc/util.inc on line 2409

                  No FreeBSD crash data found.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    That's this: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14648

                    Which is nothing to do with the drive. It's usually a one time error if you see it.

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                      mc866 @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10
                      Newest one

                      Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

                      amd64
                      14.0-CURRENT
                      FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #1 RELENG_2_7_0-n255866-686c8d3c1f0: Wed Jun 28 04:21:19 UTC 2023 root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_7_0-main/obj/amd64/LwYAddCr/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_7_0-main/sources/FreeBSD-src-REL

                      Crash report details:

                      PHP Errors:
                      [13-Oct-2023 17:11:36 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught DivisionByZeroError: Division by zero in /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php:212
                      Stack trace:
                      #0 /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php(33): mem_usage()
                      #1 /usr/local/www/getstats.php(40): get_stats(Array)
                      #2 {main}
                      thrown in /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php on line 212

                      No FreeBSD crash data found.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        @mc866 said in Fresh install of 2.7 on new hardware then restorng setting from my old hardware running 2.5.2. PHP errors, system crashes and reboots, very unstable:

                        functions.inc.php:212

                        That's the same bug. Did you try the patch on the bug report?

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                          mc866 @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10

                          Found it, that said how does one apply a patch?

                          Couldn’t seem to figure it out.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            You can use the System Patches package, just use the commit ID in the patch.

                            https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/system-patches.html

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                              mc866 @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10

                              Awesome thanks!

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