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    PFSense 2.0 Beta5 1/19 build system locks up

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

      Still freezes when I try to connect to FTP.

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

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        eri--
        last edited by

        Can you please try a snapshot from 28-JAN?

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          Makkok
          last edited by

          Freezing again!

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

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            dszp
            last edited by

            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 :-)

            David Szpunar

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              eri--
              last edited by

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

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                clahti
                last edited by

                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.

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                  nassman
                  last edited by

                  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

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    @nassman:

                    i think the problem in Jan 19 and above.

                    Hence the title of this thread… :-)

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                      clahti
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                      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.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        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.

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                          nassman
                          last edited by

                          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

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            Just found something else funny, the reason I couldn't hang my VM is that I switched it to the dev kernel. I switched back to the SMP kernel and I can hang it again.

                            So something about the dev kernel is making it less prone to hangs. (Can't say it's immune, haven't tested it long enough)

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                              dszp
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                              @jimp:

                              I switched back to the SMP kernel and I can hang it again.

                              FYI, the physical machine that was hanging last night was, I believe, running the single processor kernel. It definitely is now after I reinstalled the old snapshot, but since there's just one 2.4GHz P4 in there I did the single proc kernel (not sure if I should use the multi-proc kernel if it's a hyperthreaded proc or not).

                              David Szpunar

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                Generally it's best to use the SMP kernel everywhere, even on single CPU machines. In the past that wasn't recommended, but the limitations don't really exist anymore (we've talked about dropping the UP kernel altogether but haven't yet done it, just in case…)

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                                  dszp
                                  last edited by

                                  OK I hadn't seen anything about it so I just followed what was physically in the machine during the install process. I will keep that in mind though. Is it worth specifically switching in this case? I know I can drop in the SMP one without reinstalling if I look up the steps.

                                  David Szpunar

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    The UP and the SMP kernel probably aren't going to be that different as far as this thread is concerned. It's the developer kernel that seems to fare better, though it will also perform slower due to the other debugging overhead.

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                                      soconfused
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                                      @jimp:

                                      Just found something else funny, the reason I couldn't hang my VM is that I switched it to the dev kernel. I switched back to the SMP kernel and I can hang it again.

                                      So something about the dev kernel is making it less prone to hangs. (Can't say it's immune, haven't tested it long enough)

                                      Agreed. i have no measurable proof but this matches with my experience on this issue. I can still get a lockup using a FTP client with the dev kernel but on average it takes more tries than with SMP.

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        Commits just went in that should stop the hangs. The next new snapshots should have them. They are building right now, so they won't be uploaded until sometime in the early morning. The current run just finished but it doesn't have these fixes in it.

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                                          Makkok
                                          last edited by

                                          Works like a charm, no more freezes when I try to connect via FTP!
                                          Thanks!
                                          ;D ;D ;D
                                          2.0-BETA5 (i386)
                                          built on Fri Jan 28 14:23:00 EST 2011

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                                            rpsmith
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                                            a few days ago I switched from my net5501/nanobsd to a Dell PC running I386 SMP full version.  everything was running fine until I upgraded to "Sat Jan 29 01:09:59" and tried to connect to a remote site via IPsec site-site VPN.  it immediately hard locked and had to be power cycled.

                                            no packages installed
                                            not using openvpn
                                            no ftp traffic
                                            single WAN and LAN
                                            debug.pfftpproxy set to 1
                                            running 4 Intel Pro 100 NICs

                                            Edit: went back to "Fri Jan 28 14:23:00" and everything is back to normal.  :)

                                            Roy…

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