Now Available: pfSense® CE 2.8.1-RELEASE

Waqar.UK

I just upgraded to 2.8.1. Had to restart pfgblocker. Rebooted again as CPU was hovering at 59%. Once reboot took place it is now at 1%

randombits

I've a couple of random crash restarts since the update and this is the report of the last one.

Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

amd64
15.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #21 RELENG_2_8_1-n256095-47c932dcc0e9: Thu Aug 28 16:27:48 UTC 2025     root@pfsense-build-release-amd64-1.eng.atx.netgate.com:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_8_1-main/obj/amd64/AupY3aTL/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[06-Sep-2025 01:06:00 Europe/London] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: posix_kill(): Argument #1 ($process_id) must be of type int, string given in /etc/inc/openvpn.inc:1552
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(1552): posix_kill()
#1 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(1575): openvpn_stop_process()
#2 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(2494): openvpn_restart()
#3 /etc/inc/service-utils.inc(774): openvpn_restart_by_vpnid()
#4 /usr/local/pkg/servicewatchdog.inc(96): service_control_start()
#5 /usr/local/pkg/servicewatchdog_cron.php(30): servicewatchdog_check_services()
#6 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/openvpn.inc on line 1552



No FreeBSD crash data found.

fireodo

@randombits said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.1-RELEASE:

Hi, as many posters have told this

servicewatchdog

is not a good Idea - watchdog is a "dumb" tool that creates more trouble than it resolves.

Another thing is - take a look at openvpn.inc on line 1552 to see whats there.
To the rest may a Specialist take a look.

My 2 cents,
fireodo

nimrod

Performed dirty upgrade from 2.8.1 RC to 2.8.1-RELEASE with zero issues.

randombits

@fireodo
Line 1552

		posix_kill($pid, SIGTERM);

And in some context

function openvpn_stop_process($mode, $settings) {
	global $g;

	$mode_id = openvpn_name($mode, $settings, 'generic');
	$pfile = g_get('varrun_path')."/openvpn_{$mode_id}.pid";
	if (file_exists($pfile)) {

		/* read the pid file */
		$pid = rtrim(file_get_contents($pfile));
		unlink($pfile);
		syslog(LOG_INFO, "OpenVPN terminate old pid: {$pid}");

		/* send a term signal to the process */
		posix_kill($pid, SIGTERM);

		/* wait until the process exits, or timeout and kill it */
		$i = 0;
		while (posix_kill($pid, 0)) {
			usleep(250000);
			if ($i > 10) {
				log_error(sprintf(gettext('OpenVPN ID %1$s PID %2$s still running, killing.'), $mode_id, $pid));
				posix_kill($pid, SIGKILL);
				usleep(500000);
			}
			$i++;
		}
	}
}

I'll stop the watchdog for the time being, it's never been a problem before.

fireodo

@randombits said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.1-RELEASE:

I'll stop the watchdog for the time being, it's never been a problem before.

As I read the code (with my humble knowledge) the killing of the openvpn process was konflicting with watchdogtrying to restart the process (that was dead in his eyes). IMHO

randombits

@fireodo
It appears something like that, I've removed the Watchdog anyway and I'll see how it goes.

sandrinho1976

Any news for the Zabbix Proxy 7 package?

sokeada

@sandrinho1976 said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.1-RELEASE:

Any news for the Zabbix Proxy 7 package?

Is this what you're looking for?

Machine22

Hey Mates, Just completed an upgrade to 2.8.1 from 2.8.0 all is working fine, no crushes despite ignoring the instructions to first remove all packages before doing the upgrade.
I went with my way, and all is perfect. If you haven't please do the necessary.
Africa is up-to-date.............

nimrod

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