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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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    • 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
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        @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
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            @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
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                @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
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                        @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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