PFSense 2.0 Beta5 1/19 build system locks up

clahti · Jan 27, 2011, 4:49 PM

yes, lockup still persists with me as well. The master node was up for around 10 hours last I checked and then locked up sometime during the night. Thankfully the slave took over at that point, it has an uptime of around 18 hours right now. Both have 2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Wed Jan 26 09:44:03 EST 2011 installed.

jimp · Jan 27, 2011, 4:50 PM

You might want to try the kernel that ermal made with a custom fix (in testing) for the Kernel Panic thread.

cd /root/
fetch http://files.pfsense.org/kernel_new.gz
cp kernel_new.gz /boot/kernel/kernel.gz

Then reboot.

clahti · Jan 27, 2011, 4:53 PM

doing that now, will also upgrade to Jan-27 snap

clahti · Jan 27, 2011, 4:59 PM

well ok, that kernel locks up on boot, last console message is "Vip14: 2 link states coalesced" I am rebooting again

clahti · Jan 27, 2011, 5:05 PM

locks up on boot using new kernel, any way to get this back or is a reinstall necessary?

jimp · Jan 27, 2011, 5:11 PM

You might be able to unplug all the network interfaces, boot it up, and then switch back to the SMP kernel:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Switching_Kernels

clahti · Jan 27, 2011, 5:43 PM

ok, booting in safe mode I was able to get back to the smp kernel. Does the new dev kernel rely on any other dependencies? I am running Jan-26 snap, upgrading to Jan-27 right now. As I understand in the other kernel panic thread this new kernel will put a crash dump for debugging on the filesystem, so it is probably worthwhile for me to do, just need to know the order in which to do things. Thanks!

jimp · Jan 27, 2011, 5:58 PM

Actually the crash dumps aren't in the current snapshots, they're in the ones building now (there was one more thing I had to fix)

The kernel.gz referenced in the other thread doesn't require anything other than being on a recent snapshot.

clahti · Jan 27, 2011, 6:02 PM

ok, will wait for next snapshot then :)

Makkok · Jan 28, 2011, 8:13 AM

Still freezes when I try to connect to FTP.

2.0-BETA5 (i386)
built on Thu Jan 27 20:55:04 EST 2011

eri-- · Jan 28, 2011, 2:18 PM

Can you please try a snapshot from 28-JAN?

Makkok · Jan 28, 2011, 3:46 PM

Freezing again!

2.0-BETA5 (i386)
built on Fri Jan 28 05:30:15 EST 2011

dszp · Jan 28, 2011, 4:30 PM

Just to chime in, I had a freezing system that I upgraded yesterday that was previously on a snapshot from November. When I brought it up to date it started freezing, sometimes in 20 min or less, sometimes not for over an hour. I had to revert as it was production. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the cause is, it's a reasonably large network, though I would think it unlikely that FTP was happening at that specific time (could be wrong). They do not use PPTP at all, it's not configured or enabled. However, they use IPsec site-to-site (with more configured, but only one site-to-site tunnel was up), and also use one VLAN, which are the "nonstandard" things I can think of. It's a P4 2.4 box with the i386 single-processor kernel and it was installed on a Promise mirror at the time (I rebuilt it using a GeoM mirror when I reverted though).

Another system, a VM this time on ESXi 4.0, started locking up as soon as it went into production after several hours. I had to revert to the old solution (Endian) there temporarily. That was at our main office, also production, and hard to know what was going on on the network; we do computer repair so at any given time our customer computers can be spewing who-knows-what :-)

eri-- · Jan 28, 2011, 6:33 PM

BTW can all here execute sysctl debug.pfftpproxy=1 and report if the hangs continue?

clahti · Jan 28, 2011, 6:38 PM

doing it now, had two hangs this morning just prior to upgrading to Jan 28 snap. both master and slave pretty much hung at the same time, leading me to believe that it could be traffic type related.

nassman · Jan 28, 2011, 7:46 PM

also i face this problem, lockups and freeze, I update my server in 21/1/2011,
then i face this problem, and update to Tue Jan 25 06:07:53 EST 2011 and face it also.
i think the problem in Jan 19 and above.
thanks

jimp · Jan 28, 2011, 7:50 PM

@nassman:

i think the problem in Jan 19 and above.

Hence the title of this thread… :-)

clahti · Jan 28, 2011, 7:56 PM

so is the current thinking on this FTP traffic? I do not have an FTP server so is this outbound FTP connections? Please let me know if there are configs, system logs, pretty much anything I can provide or do to assist in getting this cleared up. If I have any more lockups I will be forced to load up 1.2.3 release unfortunately.

jimp · Jan 28, 2011, 7:57 PM

I've only been able to replicate it when acting as an FTP client. And it's fairly erratic, I could hang a testing VM up solid earlier today but I came back to get some captures and do some in-depth analysis and now I can't hang it.

nassman · Jan 28, 2011, 8:25 PM

jimp, just i tell thank all version after 19/1/2011 have this problem.
I back to 2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Wed Jan 19 02:10:47 EST 2011.
pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-BETA5-i386-20110118-2149.gz <=== this version not has any problem.
thanks