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    Avahi-Daemon Process run away?

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      mostlyharmless
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      I'll try to keep a sharp eye on it, but it seems to be the worst kind of misbehavior, the kind that doesn't have any rhyme or reason.

      New problems, it's not uninstalling cleanly, and re-install is hanging at
      Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/python27-2.7.2_3.tbz …  (extracting)

      It freezes here, just sitting there.
      I'm at a loss as to how to figure out what's going on.

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        d_ethier
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        @mostlyharmless:

        I'll try to keep a sharp eye on it, but it seems to be the worst kind of misbehavior, the kind that doesn't have any rhyme or reason.

        New problems, it's not uninstalling cleanly, and re-install is hanging at
        Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/python27-2.7.2_3.tbz …  (extracting)

        It freezes here, just sitting there.
        I'm at a loss as to how to figure out what's going on.

        I'm having the same issue right now. It will not move past the python install. I have to restart the box just to get the webConfigurator running again.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          Guessing that's probably because /var is filling up on an embedded unit, not sure how it worked before, the package didn't get any bigger/smaller recently.

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            d_ethier
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            @jimp:

            Guessing that's probably because /var is filling up on an embedded unit, not sure how it worked before, the package didn't get any bigger/smaller recently.

            Python 2.7 is a few mb's larger, but that doesn't seem to be enough. The new package has two fewer dependencies too. Both bison and m4 are gone in the latest version.

            Trying to revert back to the older version of avahi now. While it caused the CPU to spike, it did work. We need that functionality.

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              d_ethier
              last edited by

              @d_ethier:

              @jimp:

              Guessing that's probably because /var is filling up on an embedded unit, not sure how it worked before, the package didn't get any bigger/smaller recently.

              Python 2.7 is a few mb's larger, but that doesn't seem to be enough. The new package has two fewer dependencies too. Both bison and m4 are gone in the latest version.

              Trying to revert back to the older version of avahi now. While it caused the CPU to spike, it did work. We need that functionality.

              Also, /var seems to be fine. /dev/ufs/pfsense0 is steadily filling up though. I've been leaving the python install for about an hour and this partition has jumped from 25% to 50% utilization in that time.

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                d_ethier
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                @d_ethier:

                @d_ethier:

                @jimp:

                Guessing that's probably because /var is filling up on an embedded unit, not sure how it worked before, the package didn't get any bigger/smaller recently.

                Python 2.7 is a few mb's larger, but that doesn't seem to be enough. The new package has two fewer dependencies too. Both bison and m4 are gone in the latest version.

                Trying to revert back to the older version of avahi now. While it caused the CPU to spike, it did work. We need that functionality.

                Also, /var seems to be fine. /dev/ufs/pfsense0 is steadily filling up though. I've been leaving the python install for about an hour and this partition has jumped from 25% to 50% utilization in that time.

                Alright, I left it for a few hours and the situation did not change. The interface is usable now, so I started another install. It is stalling on the perl extraction now:

                Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/perl-5.12.4_3.tbz …  (extracting)

                I'll leave this part for a while and see what happens.

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                  mostlyharmless
                  last edited by

                  After I don't know what happened, it seems to have installed. Maybe a bit of "leave it alone" was all it needed, I don't know.  ??? Anyways, for the time it seems to be working at a proper level. I'll try to catch it misbehaving now.

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                    d_ethier
                    last edited by

                    @mostlyharmless:

                    After I don't know what happened, it seems to have installed. Maybe a bit of "leave it alone" was all it needed, I don't know.  ??? Anyways, for the time it seems to be working at a proper level. I'll try to catch it misbehaving now.

                    Same here. I left the install process, came back, tried a re-install and it moved on to the perl install. Stalled again, left it, came back and tried a re-install which completed successfully. The daemon seems to be behaving now, which is good.

                    Nearly out of space on the /dev/ufs/pfsense0 partition, but it should be fine for awhile.

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                      Nearly out of space? On what size? 512MB cf?

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                        d_ethier
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                        @jimp:

                        Nearly out of space? On what size? 512MB cf?

                        1gb. pfHacom box.

                        It is problematic now because on reboot I'm getting a lot of BTX halted error messages. It's hit-and-miss whether the router restarts or not.

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