Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working

reynold

@Gertjan I have different log system filter boot.log...
What kinds of logs should I check?
How can i display log from the most recent updated?

thank you

reynold

@Gertjan system log says transmit failed network is down

stephenw10

Errors in the sysctls might look like:

dev.igb.0.watchdog_timeouts: 0
dev.igb.0.rx_overruns: 0
dev.igb.0.dropped: 0

dev.igb.0.mac_stats.coll_ext_errs: 0
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.alignment_errs: 0
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.crc_errs: 0
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.recv_errs: 0

dev.igb.0.mac_stats.sequence_errors: 0
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.symbol_errors: 0
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.collision_count: 0

Anything bigger than 0 there could be a clue.

Also interesting would be if the stats stop increasing at all when the NIC stop responding.

reynold

@stephenw10 no errors.
I noted only ring state pidx tail 027 idle
no errors
Replace psu mini stata disk and ram.
Issue persists.

reynold

@stephenw10
obviously if i downgrade to 2.5.2 everythings return working again.
I also tried installing different filesystem ufs and zfs but issue persists

stephenw10

@reynold said in Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working:

system log says transmit failed network is down

What's the actual log entry there? And any surrounding it from the same time period?

Gertjan

@reynold

The dmesg.boot file might also contain important info.

reynold

@stephenw10 I found strange log saying
unbound /var/unbound/root.key file is corrput. removing and recreating

Gertjan

@reynold said in Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working:

unbound /var/unbound/root.key file is corrput. removing and recreating

Next time when you reboot, watch this movie first :
How to Run a pfSense Software File System Check (5/2020) and do what is suggested.

And from now on : always power down with the GUI, as ripping out the power will 'destroy' the file system.
I presume unbound couldn't generate the files you've mentioned.
Two major reasons : disk full (which is quiet impossible if the system was just installed) or file system bad, which is quit possible.
Especially as 2.6.0 doesn't have the ZFS system, but the older UFS file system.

Btw : really ... 2.6.0. ? ok ..... and you're lucky, this forum has ten of thousands of posts about the pfSense 2.6.0 version. That's a good thing, as I don't recall any of them ....

stephenw10

A missing unbound key might be expected after hard reboot yes. None of that explains why all the NICs stop passing traffic though. I'm not aware of any issue with igb that would present like that.