Frequent pfSense Plus GUI Crashes and Service Failures

smsigroupit

@SteveITS

Thank you for your help.

Will monitor the main system log.

stephenw10

What packages are you running?

smsigroupit

@stephenw10

stephenw10

Do yo have the service watchdog enabled? If so what things is it checking?

That is really only supposed to be used for troubleshooting and doesn't play nice with everything. If you have it set to watch Suricata for example you can end up with numerous instances running.

But, yes, something is probably using the available php threads and I'd expect to see something in the system logs in the run up to it ceasing to respond.

I assume it' doesn't actually 'crash'? You don't see a kernel panic and crash report?

smsigroupit

@stephenw10

i already remove the service watchdog, will monitor the system status

i dont see any kernel panic in the system logs

if click the Crash Reporter does nothing

stephenw10

Hmm, check in /var/crash if you can. Any crash report that's still on the system should be there.

smsigroupit

@stephenw10

there is no files

also im getting this error

Jun 5 07:28:56 nginx 2025/06/05 07:28:56 [error] 12856#100360: send() failed (54: Connection reset by peer) while logging to syslog, server: unix:/var/run/log

JeGr

@smsigroupit That could simply mean, that there's no crash/kernel panic thus no dump. Mostly when there was only a PHP error that gets recorded as "crash".

I guess that the symptoms could match the tracked bug in redmine where the widgets/dashboard is under heavy load/overload through widget handling that got changed/fixed with 25.x then? Don't know if that fix was available as System Patch but remember seeing it in the proposed release notes for 25.x

Cheers

stephenw10

Mmm, possibly. Though that usually only makes it slow or use a lot CPU cycles. And the 8200 has a lot of spare CPU cycles to use up so.... it seems unlikely.

DHCP and VPN failures could be a filesystem problem. Is it close to full?

smsigroupit

@JeGr

Thank you!

I already applied all the patches.

Will wait for netgate to fix this issue.

smsigroupit

@stephenw10

Thank you!

After applying all the patches, I no longer encountered any crashes in the pfSense GUI.

Will monitor the system status and this error message;

nginx 2025/06/05 07:28:56 [error] 12856#100360: send() failed (54: Connection reset by peer) while logging to syslog, server: unix:/var/run/log