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    PfSense crashed on Alix

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      That looks fine, though is that with or without the USB serial adapter plugged in?

      I suppose it may just be a coincidence that it's the irq process that is active when the panic happens, but it's hard to say for certain.

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        jlepthien
        last edited by

        This was taken with the usb adapter inserted. But it is usb on the Macintosh side. It is still serial on the Alix…

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          ahh… well then that wouldn't explain the ucom then. The ALIX would only see serial, not a USB device on its end.

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            jlepthien
            last edited by

            Again :-(

            Build from 01/06

            db> bt
            Tracing pid 11 tid 64025 td 0xc2456d80
            pim_input(c30a5816,c24fa000,c308cd00,0,0,…) at pim_input+0xb8c
            ip_input(c308cd00,246,c24d8700,c2378bcc,c06fd9b1,...) at ip_input+0x604
            netisr_dispatch_src(1,0,c308cd00,c2378c04,c08e3ecf,...) at netisr_dispatch_src+0x89
            netisr_dispatch(1,c308cd00,c24fa000,c24fa000,c30a5808,...) at netisr_dispatch+0x20
            ether_demux(c24fa000,c308cd00,3,0,3,...) at ether_demux+0x16f
            ether_vlanencap(c24fa000,c308cd00,c2456d80,c2378c5c,c0853f81,...) at ether_vlanencap+0x43f
            ucom_attach(c0d56e6d,c0cd10c0,c2378cb0,c2378c98,0,...) at ucom_attach+0x542b
            ucom_attach(c24ab000,0,109,82593edb,132,...) at ucom_attach+0x89d7
            intr_event_execute_handlers(c2436aa0,c2434680,c0b5910d,4f6,c24346f0,...) at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x14b
            intr_getaffinity(c24f9b50,c2378d38,0,0,0,...) at intr_getaffinity+0x14a
            fork_exit(c080dfe0,c24f9b50,c2378d38) at fork_exit+0x90
            fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
            --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xc2378d70, ebp = 0 ---
            db>

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              jlepthien
              last edited by

              And again. This is the last things I could grep:

              processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
              current process        = 11 (irq10: vr0)

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                jlepthien
                last edited by

                Okay. Now again. I am testing igmpproxy right now, perhaps it has something to do with it?

                Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                fault virtual address  = 0x72636524
                fault code              = supervisor write, page not present
                instruction pointer    = 0x20:0xc096993c
                stack pointer          = 0x28:0xc2378b10
                frame pointer          = 0x28:0xc2378b64
                code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                                        = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
                processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
                current process        = 11 (irq10: vr0)

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                  cmb
                  last edited by

                  @jlepthien:

                  Okay. Now again. I am testing igmpproxy right now, perhaps it has something to do with it?

                  Possibly. Did it happen at all before you started testing it?

                  We'll get Ermal or someone to take a look at the backtraces when time permits.

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                    jlepthien
                    last edited by

                    Yeah, the first two happened before I think. But at least the first. All the ones from yesterday happened when I tested the igmp proxy…

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                      jlepthien
                      last edited by

                      Another one again. But I can only see stuff starting with the prompt most of the time….

                      db> bt
                      Tracing pid 11 tid 64025 td 0xc2456d80
                      rn_match(c0cd4fcc,c2842200,0,0,c23788a8,...) at rn_match+0x17
                      pfr_match_addr(c288d9b0,c31e5822,2,c2378894,c2378890,...) at pfr_match_addr+0x63
                      pf_test_udp(c2378990,c237898c,1,c2562c00,c278a800,...) at pf_test_udp+0x4db
                      pf_test(1,c24fa000,c2378b54,0,0,...) at pf_test+0xbb5
                      init_pf_mutex(0,c2378b54,c24fa000,1,0,...) at init_pf_mutex+0x5e6
                      pfil_run_hooks(c0cfd140,c2378ba4,c24fa000,1,0,...) at pfil_run_hooks+0x7e
                      ip_input(c278a800,246,c24d2ac0,c2378bcc,c06fd9b1,...) at ip_input+0x278
                      netisr_dispatch_src(1,0,c278a800,c2378c04,c08e3ecf,...) at netisr_dispatch_src+0x89
                      netisr_dispatch(1,c278a800,c24fa000,c24fa000,c31e5808,...) at netisr_dispatch+0x20
                      ether_demux(c24fa000,c278a800,3,0,3,...) at ether_demux+0x16f
                      ether_vlanencap(c24fa000,c278a800,c2456d80,c2378c5c,c0853f81,...) at ether_vlanencap+0x43f
                      ucom_attach(c0d56e6d,c0cd10c0,c2378cb0,c2378c98,0,...) at ucom_attach+0x542b
                      ucom_attach(c24ab000,0,109,cd9a2d5d,38ea,...) at ucom_attach+0x89d7
                      intr_event_execute_handlers(c2436aa0,c2434680,c0b5910d,4f6,c24346f0,...) at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x14b
                      intr_getaffinity(c24f9b50,c2378d38,0,0,0,...) at intr_getaffinity+0x14a
                      fork_exit(c080dfe0,c24f9b50,c2378d38) at fork_exit+0x90
                      fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
                      --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xc2378d70, ebp = 0 ---
                      db>

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                        jlepthien
                        last edited by

                        Do we have any info yet? Today this happened again and I really would like to know what this is. I can simply install 1.2.3 again and wait until 2.0 is out of beta, but I want to help the project. So devs, what could be the problem? Anything else I should check?

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                          jlepthien
                          last edited by

                          Would you guys please be so kind to give me an answer. Otherwise it is no fun posting these backtraces…
                          Today it happened again...

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            Unfortunately with the snapshot server out of commission until the new one is put in place there isn't much to do or try except keep track of the traces.

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                              jlepthien
                              last edited by

                              Yeah well but this doesn't answer my question what the real problem is. Or do you think that these problems were silently fixed in a new snapshot?

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                It's hard to say with any certainty until someone with more in-depth knowledge of the freebsd kernel (such as ermal) can have a look and see if he can tell what is going on.

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                                  jlepthien
                                  last edited by

                                  Yep. That's what I'm waiting for ;)

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                                    wallabybob
                                    last edited by

                                    I've looked at a lot of FreeBSD dumps. This sort of problem is sometimes fairly straight forward to find but can also be very difficult to find. It can have a variety of causes including passing the wrong type of data structure to a function and freeing a data structure then reusing it while its being used for another purpose.

                                    If I was looking at this problem I expect the most useful items of information to me would be

                                    • a precise identification of the build on the which the problem was observed

                                    • a way of making it happen, even if it makes it happen only one in four times

                                    One of the back traces shows:
                                    ucom_attach(c0d56e6d,c0cd10c0,c2378cb0,c2378c98,0,…) at ucom_attach+0x542b
                                    ucom_attach(c24ab000,0,109,cd9a2d5d,38ea,...) at ucom_attach+0x89d7
                                    The offsets can be misleadng in that static functions don't appear in the symbol table available to the crash time debugger. Since 0x1000 is 4k, 0x89d7 is at least 32k and its pretty unlikely that an attach function would have anything like that amount of code. This offset likely is in some static function whose code starts at a higher address than the code for ucom_attach.

                                    Another of the reports shows:
                                    Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                                    fault virtual address  = 0x72636524
                                    fault code              = supervisor write, page not present
                                    instruction pointer    = 0x20:0xc096993c
                                    stack pointer          = 0x28:0xc2378b10
                                    frame pointer          = 0x28:0xc2378b64

                                    If you look at the virtual address you might notice that it could be considered to be printable text: "?ecr" (the ? is for the character who binary representation is 0x24; I don't have the mapping from 0x24 to printable character in my head).  From the reported code it would appear that a data structure referenced by rn_match has a text string where rn_match is expecting it to hold the address of another data structure. The challenge is to find out how that happened.

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                                      jlepthien
                                      last edited by

                                      What I see now is that this happens every 3-4 days. So I guess I will do a reboot now every night via cron to see if this then stops until I have better builds…

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                                        jlepthien
                                        last edited by

                                        With the daily reboot in place I am not seeing this problem anymore. So what is the status of these problems? Has anyone (ermal) taken a look at the bt's? Is this "problem" fixed in newer snaps?

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                                          jlepthien
                                          last edited by

                                          Today this happened again. So I cannot use this workaround :(

                                          Here is the bt:

                                          rn_match(c0cd504c,c283fd00,0,c2981718,e2992850,…) at rn_match+0x17
                                          pfr_match_addr(c288b9b0,c2741034,2,e299283c,e2992838,...) at pfr_match_addr+0x63
                                          pf_test_tcp(e2992938,e2992934,1,c26c4600,c272bd00,...) at pf_test_tcp+0x4cb
                                          pf_test(1,c2610400,e2992afc,0,0,...) at pf_test+0x8d2
                                          init_pf_mutex(0,e2992afc,c2610400,1,0,...) at init_pf_mutex+0x5e6
                                          pfil_run_hooks(c0cfd1c0,e2992b4c,c2610400,1,0,...) at pfil_run_hooks+0x7e
                                          ip_input(c272bd00,246,c24d38c0,e2992b74,c06fd9a1,...) at ip_input+0x278
                                          netisr_dispatch_src(1,0,c272bd00,e2992bac,c08e3f0f,...) at netisr_dispatch_src+0x89
                                          netisr_dispatch(1,c272bd00,c2610400,c2610400,c274101a,...) at netisr_dispatch+0x20
                                          ether_demux(c2610400,c272bd00,3,0,3,...) at ether_demux+0x16f
                                          ether_vlanencap(c2610400,c272bd00,ece0,18,c272bd00,...) at ether_vlanencap+0x43f
                                          ieee80211_hostap_detach(c2700000,c315a000,c272bd00,c2532480,c2438d80,...) at ieee80211_hostap_detach+0x362
                                          ieee80211_hostap_detach(c315a000,c272bd00,17,ffffffa0,0,...) at ieee80211_hostap_detach+0x29a7
                                          ath_suspend(c2514000,1,0,c0ca937c,0,...) at ath_suspend+0x1f67
                                          taskqueue_run(c251d100,c251d118,0,c0b53f14,0,...) at taskqueue_run+0x132
                                          taskqueue_thread_loop(c2514270,e2992d38,0,0,0,...) at taskqueue_thread_loop+0x88
                                          fork_exit(c086b060,c2514270,e2992d38) at fork_exit+0x90
                                          fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
                                          --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xe2992d70, ebp = 0 ---

                                          Please guys. Give me any info. What else do you need? Does nobody use 2.0-beta1 on Alix boards? Can't be...

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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            I use 2.0-beta1 on my ALIX but has not crashed on me yet. I haven't passed much traffic through it though as it's just been used for light testing and such.

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