PfSense crashes after installing squid & squidGuard

marcelloc

Did you tried both 32 and 64 bits version?

jmarquez

Hi,

Do you mean 32/64 bits version of pfSense?

As far as I know there is only a 32 bits version of pfSense. Am I right?

Having a look at the "which version to use" of pfSense, it states that it needs a compatible processor. I don't know whether this means that it has to be an AMD processor or any 64bits processor (AMD/Intel).

Thank you very much.
Jesus

marcelloc

@jmarquez:

As far as I know there is only a 32 bits version of pfSense. Am I right?

There is both since pfSense 2.0

@jmarquez:

Having a look at the "which version to use" of pfSense, it states that it needs a compatible processor. I don't know whether this means that it has to be an AMD processor or any 64bits processor (AMD/Intel).

If your hardware is not new, then probably it will accept only 32 bit version.

jmarquez

Thank you very much.

I have just installed the 64 bits version.
Let's see if this version fixes the problem. I'll come back to the forum with news about this issue.
It usually takes 4-5 days to hang.

Regards,
Jesus

jmarquez

Hi everyone.

I had no luck on this. The system crashed again in less than one day using the 64 bit version of pfsense.
So far I don't have a clue about what's going on.
I have changed every single peace of hardware (except the mainboard & processor), have run memory test,
changed HD, change Intel NIC's for Realtek ones and reinstalled pfSense 32/64 bits from scratch.
The fact is that a virtualbox machine is working great using the same config file.

Reading a few posts in the Hardware area of this forum, it is suggested that some hardware might be trying
to set the system on a sleep mode so it might crash pfSense as this is a wrong state for the system.

Is there a way to check this?

Any idea appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Jesus

marcelloc

Disable any sleep time for all option in bios power manager.

jmarquez

I found an entry in the BIOS named "EPU Power Saving Mode". The mainboard manual states that it is disabled by default, but I found it Enabled.
I have disabled it. Let's see what happens.

Thank you very much.

fr3drik

i thinks thats a bug .
something goes wrong on pfsense

jmarquez

Hi there.

I'd like to paste the following entries from dmesg:

ACPI Error (psargs-0464): [RAMB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, Could not execute arguments for [RAMW] (Region) (20100331/nsinit-442)

Is this something to look at?

Besides, we are running pfSene 2.0 x32 on a virtualbox machine. This machine shows a line that doesn't show in the
one failing. The line is as follow:

acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed)

Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Jesus.

packeteer

Rather than spending your time on trying to find the cause. You're better off building a dedicated standalone squid box with Dansguardian.

I stay away from all in one solution.