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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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    • 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
                  last edited by

                  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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                    BlueMatt
                    last edited by

                    Upgraded and have the same problem.
                    However, it seems to be triggered by several different triggers.  Not sure what mine is yet, but it appears to have to do with the webConfigurator.

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                      eri--
                      last edited by

                      Yep know issue.
                      With the snapshot that will come late today everything has been fixed from what our testing shows.

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                        mxx
                        last edited by

                        Hi,

                        Just performed an upgrade to this snapshot (have been running one from ~26th).
                        Now pfsense doesn't boot anymore.

                        It didn't continue after displaying "Configuring Gateway Monitors".

                        I was continuously pinging the pfsense box from its lan side during boot and got exactly one reply back in between.
                        I then did a hard reset which led to that pfsense stopped loading further just one output line before configuring gateway monitors (if I remember correctly).
                        Silly me didn't take a screen capture of the first (regular) boot. I only have one after the reset :(

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                          mxx
                          last edited by

                          I don't know, maybe it's related to http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,32767.0.html since I have a few site-to-site ipsec tunnels configured and those remote hosts would try re-connecting all the time.. but I didn't want to hijack that thread..

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                            BlueMatt
                            last edited by

                            Similar problem, but it appears to boot properly if I disconnect my WAN interface prior to boot.
                            Also, even if boot is successful, I am not able to login to SSH (which previously worked).

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                              MF
                              last edited by

                              @ermal:

                              Yep know issue.
                              With the snapshot that will come late today everything has been fixed from what our testing shows.

                              if somebody is interessted in the symptoms

                              clean 1.2.3 install
                              updated via system_firmware_auto.php to Sat. 20110129 -> amd64

                              system locks up one CPU-core … seems to to nothing more

                              TUI tells

                              "Firmware upgrade in progress…"

                              reloading webconfigurrator gives```

                              Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /etc/inc/interfaces.inc on line 1023

                              
                              after "hard-reset" TUI tells
                              
                              > "IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing."
                              
                              and locks up
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                                mxx
                                last edited by

                                You also happen to have any remote ipsec hosts connecting automatically?

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                                  Makkok
                                  last edited by

                                  Same problem here, I'm wondering, last updates worse than ever… ???

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                                    eri--
                                    last edited by

                                    I merged the topics because it really is the same issue.

                                    I would really like the config files from the people that have installations with carp+openvpn.
                                    You can send them privately with all private info removed.

                                    As i said already it was a known issue and you have to wait for the snapshot of late today to test which
                                    has commit https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/ff8cebdea1046caacd263cab2b39053b629d3a83 in it.

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                                      mxx
                                      last edited by

                                      @Makkok:

                                      Same problem here, I'm wondering, last updates worse than ever… ???

                                      Just bad luck ;)
                                      Something like that didn't happen to me for a very long time.
                                      I guess there's always a little chance of breaking something critical when developing such a huge project even more with snapshots being built automatically.
                                      Of course this is very frustrating in a production environment. It's a good idea to have a backup machine to start up in such a case.

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                                        mxx
                                        last edited by

                                        @ermal:

                                        As i said already it was a known issue and you have to wait for the snapshot of late today to test which
                                        has commit https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/ff8cebdea1046caacd263cab2b39053b629d3a83 in it.

                                        Hi ermal, is it ok to just manually apply that commit or would this break something as it may depend on something else that's changed?

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                                          clahti
                                          last edited by

                                          so I have been on the Fri Jan 28 05:30:15 EST 2011 snap with the debug.pfftpproxy set to 1 and so far I have an uptime of 27+ hours (woo hoo).  I am in the office today to build a 1.2.3 emergency system to slap in if the current 2x cluster goes down again, but as far as I can tell it seems stable at the moment.  In reading the recent posts to this thread I gather that I should wait for Sunday snap since today's brings back problems for some people.  ermal, you requested configs from people with this lockup issue, do you still need this?  I can send to you if so, I am using CARP on two WAN and one LAN interface, but no ipsec or openvpn as our VPN traffic is port-forwarded to a different server inside the firewall.

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                                            eri--
                                            last edited by

                                            if the hangs do not occur no i do not need the config anymore.

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