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    PfSense crashed on Alix

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • J
      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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                                      xbipin
                                      last edited by

                                      i use 22nd snapshot on alix, hasnt crashed for me till now so might be some hardware issue or something like that

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                                        jlepthien
                                        last edited by

                                        I don't think it is hardware related since 1.2.3 is running fine on this box. This just happened now with 2.0-beta1…

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                                          sullrich
                                          last edited by

                                          We're looking into it.

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                                            jlepthien
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks! Is there anyway I can tell pfSense to reboot automatically when it panics? But I guess no :-(
                                            I think I will go back to 1.2.3 because my girlfriend hates me everytime the internet connection dies and now it is almost daily ;)

                                            Downgrade is only working by re-flashing? I have an old 1.2.3 conf…

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