Kernel Panic

acherman · Feb 18, 2011, 3:08 PM

Had another panic on my master this morning as I was doing up a quick drawing - looks like the same situation, even with the pptp tunable noted by ermal. It ran fine for almost 14 hours yesterday before the first one last night (from 9:05 am to 10:56 pm). Anyway, screenshots from this mornings panic:

Now, here is a basic layout of my config:

Directly connected to the Sync interface is an identical box with all other interfaces running in parallel. Our WAN is a static connection. DHCP is served out to our corp LAN, remote office LAN, and a couple of our WiSP VLANs (625, 626) - I do not have the CARP backup DHCP turned on. The only VPN I have configured is OpenVPN (one server connection). The only package installed is the OpenVPN client config export utility. I do have a number of virtual IPs configured for inbound and outbound NAT. No traffic shaping turned on. I think that's it for special stuff, let me know if more is required, or I can upload my config files.

I am still running on the build from Thu Feb 17 02:14:25 EST 2011, with the pptp fix tunable noted by ermal.

eri-- · Feb 18, 2011, 4:30 PM

I just put a patch up.
The snapshot has to build but when it comes out try with that.

sammyfusionsleep.com · Feb 18, 2011, 6:20 PM

Thanks very much for the efforts…

2.0-BETA5 (i386)
built on Thu Feb 17 02:14:25 EST 2011
Dell Poweredge 860
Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz
2 gigs ram.
Openvpn client export plugin is the only plugin installed.
pptp server for remote clients.
1 Wan, 1 LAN, no CARP, 4 IP Alias VIPs
1 ipsec tunnel to other another pfsense endpoint
2 ipsec tunnels to cisco routers

Crash happened during normal operations with no changes being made. I did have a browser tab connected to the GUI with the dashboard page up. there are two

salvor · Feb 18, 2011, 10:32 PM

@ermal:

I just put a patch up.
The snapshot has to build but when it comes out try with that.

I was taking a peek at the repository and noticed the last commit by ermal was on Feb 16.

Is this the correct URL to find out what went into the latest snapshot?
https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense

This is the only commit on Feb 18 (as of 4:29 PM CST):
06:42 cmb pushed c7d56176 to pfsense/mainline on branch master

jimp · Feb 18, 2011, 10:33 PM

It's in the pfsense-tools repo, not just pfsense.

salvor · Feb 19, 2011, 2:16 AM

@jimp:

It's in the pfsense-tools repo, not just pfsense.

Thanks! Seems I was missing half the action!

acherman · Feb 19, 2011, 2:27 AM

Now I feel like I'm missing the action. I still can't find a new snapshot.

phospher · Mar 3, 2011, 6:16 PM

I just upgraded from 1.3 to the latest 2.0 RC1 snapshot and I'm getting the dreaeded malloc kernel panic. This is happening on two machines in a vmware esxi environment. It basically just keeps rebooting. I see there is a bug report about vmware tools causing the issue. How do I go about uninstalling vmtools?
Thanks!

acherman · Mar 3, 2011, 6:17 PM

My 2 CARP boxes have been running on the Beta5 build from Mon Feb 21 19:15:26 EST 2011 without any issues for 9 days, 14:12.

phospher · Mar 3, 2011, 6:24 PM

Per Jim P, I followed his comment: "Boot to single user mode, touch /conf/needs_package_sync, and then reboot."

That seems to have fixed the issue.

vadonka · Mar 24, 2011, 12:17 PM

i just installed snort package today. it seems to be working fine but after some time causes kernel panic. i remove snort and observe the box to see what happened. if the panic will occur again i take a pic.

i use the latest RC1 build.

cmb · Apr 4, 2011, 6:29 AM

locking this thread because people keep hijacking it, the original issue is resolved, start a new thread if you have an issue.