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    PfSense crashed on Alix

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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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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                      jlepthien
                      last edited by

                      I can confirm now that it is definitely not a hardware issue. Now my box is running fine again with 1.2.3. I will use 2.0 again when it has RC status the earliest…

                      Thanks

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                        Uxorious
                        last edited by

                        I just had what is possibly the same problem on an old Dell OptiPlex GX200 with a dual Intel gigabit card installed.

                        LAN IP was completely dead, and I did not have a keyboard so no backtrace:
                        em1: watchdog timeout – resetting
                        Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                        cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
                        fault virtual address = 0xe0500a4
                        fault code = supervisor read, page not present
                        instruction pointer - 0x20:0xc0a63aa7
                        stack pointer = 0x28:0xe2c547c4
                        frame pointer = 0x28:0xe2c547f0
                        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 = 0 (em0 taskq)

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                          Uxorious
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                          @Uxorious:

                          Stopped at rn_match+0x17: movl 0xc(%eax),%ebx

                          It happened again some 20 hours later.
                          LAN dead again, but stopped at exactly the same instruction.
                          Since writing down the bactrace was too painful, I took a picture instead.

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                            ttlinna
                            last edited by

                            @Uxorious:

                            I just had what is possibly the same problem on an old Dell OptiPlex GX200 with a dual Intel gigabit card installed.

                            LAN IP was completely dead, and I did not have a keyboard so no backtrace:
                            em1: watchdog timeout – resetting
                            Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                            cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
                            fault virtual address = 0xe0500a4
                            fault code = supervisor read, page not present
                            instruction pointer - 0x20:0xc0a63aa7
                            stack pointer = 0x28:0xe2c547c4
                            frame pointer = 0x28:0xe2c547f0
                            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 = 0 (em0 taskq)

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                              Uxorious
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                              @ttlinna:

                              I've had multiple similar problems. Unfortunately I haven't been able to grab the log since the problems have occured in production environments. Network just stops suddenly working. It can run well for days or just for an hour or so.

                              My config includes use of limiters. Is it possible that it causes problems?
                              That's just my hunch, since I've got older snapshots running fine without limiters.

                              My config is fairly simple.
                              WAN and another WAN on OPT.
                              A couple NAT/FW rules inbound.
                              Nothing else.

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                                xbipin
                                last edited by

                                my alix with 20th feb snapshot works perfect and older versions also have been running stable enough for me for as much as 15 days then its no crash but i usually endup trying newer snapshots.

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                                  Uxorious
                                  last edited by

                                  @Uxorious:

                                  @Uxorious:

                                  Stopped at rn_match+0x17: movl 0xc(%eax),%ebx

                                  It happened again some 20 hours later.
                                  LAN dead again, but stopped at exactly the same instruction.
                                  Since writing down the bactrace was too painful, I took a picture instead.

                                  For the past 5 days I have been running completely stable on 1.2.3 using the same hardware and configuration (recreated configuration since downgrading is not possible).

                                  Something bad is happening in 2.0 for sure…

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                                    eri--
                                    last edited by

                                    Please tell your configuration or better send your config.xml to investigate further.

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                                      computor
                                      last edited by

                                      I think I'm having a similar issue (trap 12s once or twice a day–more if torrenting, etc).  I thought it was a HW failure at first, but this crash has followed through 3 different boxes (a dual PIII, a single P4, and a dual Opteron blade).  I'm using nanoBSD and have upgraded several times to the latest snapshot--I'm probably a week out of date at most at the moment.  The faulting process is usually one of the NIC drivers (I don't think it's a driver problem--I've seen it on em, fxp, and bge), but once it was the openvpn process).  I have reflashed the card with a fresh nanobsd image a few times, so I don't think it's corruption.

                                      I have a second box hooked up to the serial console doing a full dump of the serial console which at this point has captured over a dozen such crashes (and the subsequent reboots).  As such, it's quite large--I can email it to you if you want, Chris.  A least a couple include backtraces.

                                      Will M.

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                                        cmb
                                        last edited by

                                        Please post any back traces here if you have them.

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                                          computor
                                          last edited by

                                          Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                                          fault virtual address = 0x8
                                          fault code = supervisor read, page not present
                                          instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc08f46ce
                                          stack pointer         = 0x28:0xe59bb7c4
                                          frame pointer         = 0x28:0xe59bb7f0
                                          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 (irq18: fxp0 ath0+)

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                                            jlepthien
                                            last edited by

                                            Has any1 looked at my bt's? I just tried again with the 05/04 build and for almost a day now it runs stable. Problem solved or just a coincidence?

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