Netgate Discussion Forum
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    Segmentation fault

    General pfSense Questions
    2
    3
    3.3k
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • L
      lege
      last edited by

      Greetings,

      We are running 4 pfSense firewalls on embedded hardware bought from hacom.net, they're all running pfHacom 1.2.3 (rebranded pfSense 1.2.3) from CF drives (nanobsd)

      All of these firewalls seem to have problems after a while and almost every command issued using a shell prompt returns a Segmentation Fault error and doesn't run.

      We cannot even reboot them or do anything from the console.

      Please note however that the actual firewall/packet filtering/routing works even in this condition. Even the webConfigurator mostly works, and so does CARP and everything else. We have one that's been up for 200 days and is still routing but cannot reboot it from the console, and currently do not have physical access to it.

      Here's an example:

      pfHacom console setup


      0)  Logout (SSH only)
      1)  Assign Interfaces
      2)  Set LAN IP address
      3)  Reset webConfigurator password
      4)  Reset to factory defaults
      5)  Reboot system
      6)  Halt system
      7)  Ping host
      8)  Shell
      9)  PFtop
      10)  Filter Logs
      11)  Restart webConfigurator
      12)  pfHacom Developer Shell
      13)  Upgrade from console
      14)  Disable Secure Shell (sshd)

      Enter an option: 8

      Segmentation fault (core dumped)

      Sometimes the segmentation faults occur right after they boot up, not even the webConfigurator gets a chance to start, so they won't be accessible via http. We'd need to reboot them another time for the error to go away and eventually start working.

      Any ideas on what we could do? Also, there's nothing related to these in the System Log when it starts occuring.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • P
        podilarius
        last edited by

        Can you provide details about the hardware you are running this on? What packages are installed?

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • L
          lege
          last edited by

          They're:

          Mars 1U Server Celeron-M pfSense Appliance
          CPU Speed: 1Ghz Celeron-M
          Ethernet: 4xIntel Gigabit LAN
          Memory: 1GB DDR RAM
          Storage: 4GB CF
          Mini-PCI: None

          The packages are the default, nothing extra has been installed - it's showing AutoConfigBackup and siproxd. It should be vanilla 1.2.3 as far as I can tell.

          1.2.3-RELEASE
          built on Mon Jan 4 10:56:15 PST 2010

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • First post
            Last post
          Copyright 2025 Rubicon Communications LLC (Netgate). All rights reserved.