Packages still present after factory reset

3n1gm4

I recently did a factory reset on a PFsense. After re-configuring it from scratch, I'm still getting syslog errors from the old packages before the reset. For example, I'm getting this continuously:

kernel: pid xxxx (bandwidthd), uid -: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
kernel: pid xxxx (bandwidthd), uid -: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
kernel: pid xxxx (bandwidthd), uid -: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
kernel: pid xxxx (bandwidthd), uid -: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
kernel: pid xxxx (bandwidthd), uid -: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)

How do I permanently delete the packages without completely erasing the drive and re-installing PFsense?

jimp

Doing a factory reset only resets the configuration, NOT the filesystem, so package binaries are still installed.

You can use "pkg_info" at the shell and "pkg_delete (blah)" to get rid of the ones you know you don't need.

A wipe+reinstall is the only way to 100% ensure you have a fresh/clean install.

phil.davis

And there are probably package start/stop scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

[2.1-RC2][root]/usr/local/etc/rc.d(14): ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1311 Sep 10 07:12 bandwidthd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   325 Sep  9 09:42 cron.sh

The pfSense bootup will be trying to execute each of these to start the corresponding package/daemon. Deleting these will stop that happening.
The factory default config will have got rid of the GUI menu entries for any packages. And after doing pkg_delete as suggested by JimP you "should" be back to the base system. But there might be other remnants of some packages - as JimP says, a full wipe/reinstall is the way to be sure.