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      mattlund @mattlund
      last edited by

      @stephenw10 I looked at the installer shell script /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-installer.sh which seems to be where the installation fails if I have understood the system correctly.

      installer_main() {
       local _cfg_count _cfg_selected _error _i _info

       VERSION="$(get_version)"
       [ -f "${INSTALLER_VERSION}" ] && [ -r "${INSTALLER_VERSION}" ] && \
           /bin/rm -f "${INSTALLER_VERSION}" 2> /dev/null
       if [ ! -f "${INSTALLER_VERSION}" ] || \
           [ -w "${INSTALLER_VERSION}" ]; then
               echo -n "${VERSION}" > "${INSTALLER_VERSION}"
       fi
       if ! installer_reset; then
               "${BSDDIALOG}" --colors --backtitle "$(get_title)" \
                   --title " Netgate Installer Error " \
                   --msgbox "\nCannot connect to installer daemon.\n\nTrying again...\n" \
                   --ok-label "Retry" 0 0
               # restart the Installer backend.
               return 22
       fi

       if ! installer_copyright; then
               return 1
       fi

      Look like it fails att if statement "if ! installer_reset; then"?!

      installer_reset looks like a function that is sourced from the /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-common in shell script /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-installer.sh.

      installer_reset() {
        local _result _tmpfile

        _tmpfile="$(${MKTEMP})"
        if ! "${CURL}" ${CURLFLAGS} \
            "${INSTALLER_URL}/reset" 2>&1 > "${_tmpfile}"; then
                ${RM} -f "${_tmpfile}" 2>&1 > /dev/null
                return 1
        fi
        _result=$(${GREP} -c "\"status\":\"ok\"" "${_tmpfile}")
        ${RM} -f "${_tmpfile}" 2>&1 > /dev/null
        if [ -z "${_result}" ] || [ "${_result}" != "1" ]; then
                return 1
        fi

        return 0
}

      So here I am lost but it seems that some statement is not fullfilled to looks like there is an isse with the backend, or???

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        mattlund @stephenw10
        last edited by

        @stephenw10 where can I find the installer logs in /var/log ?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Yes, there and also in /var/log

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            mattlund @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 here you have a example of all logs that I belive make sense.

            daemon.log

            root@pfSense-install:/var/log # cat daemon.log 
Jun 18 20:20:00 pfSense-install newsyslog[1700]: logfile first created
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: Starting
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: Version: v1.0-RC
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-init
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -M
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[2]: unknown
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-init exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: init: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -i
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[2]: igb0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: if_set_up: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -i
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[2]: igb1
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: if_set_up: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -i
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[2]: igb2
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: if_set_up: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -i
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[2]: igb3
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-if-up exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: if_set_up: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: nic_addr_set: addr: 192.168.1.1/24
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-pf
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -d
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [2]: pfctl: pf not enabled
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: Warning: Cannot disable the pf firewall.
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-pf exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: nic_pf_disable: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-copy-configxml
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: Searching configuration backups on the installation media...
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: Looking for config.xml on da0s3: 
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: [found msdos]
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: [no config.xml on da0s3]
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: Could not locate a msdos partition. Done.
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: Searching for configuration files in the existing disks...
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec output [1]: Could not locate an existing XML configuration. Done.
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-copy-configxml exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: cfg_copy_configxml: error: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[0]: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-ready
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[1]: -M
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: argv[2]: unknown
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: exec: /usr/local/libexec/installer/pfSense-ready exited with status: 0
Jun 18 20:20:01 pfSense-install pfSense-installer[1851]: ready: error: 0
root@pfSense-install:/var/log #

            auth.log

            root@pfSense-install:/var/log # cat auth.log 
Jun 18 20:20:00 pfSense-install newsyslog[1700]: logfile first created
Jun 18 20:20:02 pfSense-install sshd[1953]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Jun 18 20:20:02 pfSense-install sshd[1953]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jun 18 20:20:02 pfSense-install login[1970]: login on ttyu0 as root
Jun 18 20:20:02 pfSense-install login[1962]: login on ttyv0 as root
Jun 18 20:20:02 pfSense-install login[1981]: login on ttyv3 as root
root@pfSense-install:/var/log #

            messages
            Attached as file.
            messages.txt

            Can you find some clues in these logs? I do not find anything suspicus...

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Hmm, no errors shown there but the daemon log should have a lot more in it....

              The only time I've ever seen that is after restarting the installer without rebooting. But I assume you are rebooting here between attempts?

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                mattlund @stephenw10
                last edited by

                @stephenw10 yes I am rebooting between the attempts.

                Looks like the issue is with the pfsense-installerd.sh it should bring up a webservice which do not seem to be accessible through nginx. I get ssl issues and can not bypass that.

                Ideas?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Hmm, do you have a good system time? Some time ago there was a bug that caused the installer to generate a cert that was then seen as expired once ntp kicked in. That should be fixed but perhaps you're hitting some variant.

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                    mattlund @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 yes I have a good system time and date it might diff a few seconds, but that is it.

                    More ideas?

                    Is it possible to download an older image 2.6.x or 2.7.x just to verify if I get a different behaivour?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Yes you can get the legacy installers for 2.7.2 here.

                      Those definitely won't hit this because the installer code itself is completely different. But you can test upgrading to 2.8.

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                        mattlund @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 I tried to install 2.7.2 and it worked fine the install as you expected.

                        But I hit another issue and that is firefox generates SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_READ when I try to connect to pfsense 2.7.2 after inital install at https://192.168.1.1.

                        So I am not able to connect to the GUI at all. I logged in via the console to the shell and executed the command below but this did not help.

                        pfSsh.php playback generateguicert

                        I also tested to install Opnsense 25.1 and it just works very well. As well as FreeBSD 14.

                        So ideas on what to test or how to resolve this situation.

                        It is quite clear that the new pfsense 2.8 installer is not as compatible as the old 2.7.2.

                        Any ideas or tests you can think of would be appricated since I want to run pfsense on my box.

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                          mattlund @mattlund
                          last edited by mattlund

                          @stephenw10 I did some further test on SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_READ.
                          I fund out that I had the same issue on a live cd of Debian 12 as well.

                          I then ran memtest86 test suite and found out that it seems to be an issue with my RAM memory. I will exchange the RAM memory during next week and retest to install pfsense 2.7.2.

                          I do not belive that pfsense 2.8 installation issues is caused by the RAM memory, but I will retest this as well.

                          I will reach out here with an update and some advise from you if I am not successful in my endeavor.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Huh. Well that would not be anything I'd have suspected! Let us know if that allows it to run the installer.

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                              mattlund @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 so my troubleshooting has reached it's end.

                              It seems that there was an issue with the RAM memory first. When I exchanged this with a new healty module tested with memtest86, the issue still existed with SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_READ!

                              My time and date and BIOS battery are OK so no issues there.

                              I can only conclude that it is a CPU issue, maybe due to overheating at some point. I am just guessing now, but since the CPU is integrated with the motherboard I will trash it.

                              Thanks for all the support and ideas!

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Well we should have new installer version available quite soon so you could try that on it.

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