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    Disabling the RAM disk and subsequently rebooting causes the boot environment to become unbootable.

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      It's included but disabled by default. When you enable it the config is processed through the MIM backend which can introduce unexpected results.

      We have replicated this particular issue reliably now though. Fix is incoming.

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      • w0wW
        w0w @stephenw10
        last edited by

        @stephenw10
        Any updates on this?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Yes, that should be fixed now. I'm not sure if it made the May 7th build but it will be in the next one if not.

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          • cmcdonaldC
            cmcdonald Netgate Developer @w0w
            last edited by cmcdonald

            @w0w said in Disabling the RAM disk and subsequently rebooting causes the boot environment to become unbootable.:

            @stephenw10
            Any updates on this?

            Can you inspect the contents of /cf/conf/RAM_Disk_Store from the recovery shell after a boot failure?

            ls /cf/conf/RAM_Disk_Store should do it

            @w0w I bet you are going to see a file pfnet-controller.db.gz in that directory

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            • w0wW
              w0w @cmcdonald
              last edited by w0w

              @cmcdonald said in Disabling the RAM disk and subsequently rebooting causes the boot environment to become unbootable.:

              ls /cf/conf/RAM_Disk_Store should do it

              @w0w I bet you are going to see a file pfnet-controller.db.gz in that directory

              Yep and another one too, .bak
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              • cmcdonaldC
                cmcdonald Netgate Developer @w0w
                last edited by

                @w0w said in Disabling the RAM disk and subsequently rebooting causes the boot environment to become unbootable.:

                @cmcdonald said in Disabling the RAM disk and subsequently rebooting causes the boot environment to become unbootable.:

                ls /cf/conf/RAM_Disk_Store should do it

                @w0w I bet you are going to see a file pfnet-controller.db.gz in that directory

                Yep and another one too, .bak
                06b8250e-2cbd-4198-981c-3ea3f3ebb6bb-image.png

                Thanks for verifying!

                We've got a root cause now, and are assessing potential solutions.

                This will make it into 25.03.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Yup, turns out it wasn't fixed. Just hiding!

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                  • cmcdonaldC
                    cmcdonald Netgate Developer @cmcdonald
                    last edited by

                    Should be fixed now!

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                    • w0wW
                      w0w @cmcdonald
                      last edited by

                      @cmcdonald
                      Confirming. Applied 34c529de27b79cfbbcd0e266e17ca7809f3b2a88 patch and all good now.

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                      • w0wW
                        w0w
                        last edited by w0w

                        Sorry but something else is missing, the bug is back Immediately after update to 25.03.b.20250515.1415, ramdsik already disabled.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          You'll need to reapply the patch to that. The fix was put it just after that was built. It will be in the next public build.

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                          • w0wW
                            w0w @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10
                            Ok. Will try later

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