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    No Web Interface on Thu May 29 08:48:37 CDT 2014

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.2 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • M
      m3usv0x
      last edited by

      This is confirmed for memstick version x86 and x64.
      Boot hangs after cron, webgui won't come up though.

      After the snapshot to fix this, is there some way to update without the GUI or fresh install?

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        charliem
        last edited by

        I can confirm that.  Fresh (today's) snapshot doesn't complete booting for me: on the console, it stops here:

        Starting webConfigurator ... done.
Configuring CRON ... done.
Starting DNS forwarder ... done.
Starting NTP time client ... done
Starting DHCP service ... done.
Starting DHCPv6 service ... done.
Configuring Firewall ... done.
Generating RRD graphs ... done.
Starting syslog ... done.
Starting CRON ... done.

        Though I can ^C out of that to /bin/sh and look around.  check_reload_status does not dump core, so that's an improvement.  The VM can ping, and be pinged, on the LAN.  Looks like it may be hanging in /etc/rc, right after starting CRON.  If I comment out the rest of the commands in /etc/rc and reboot, the boot continues and I get the console menu.

        Still no web server at that point, and as before, sshd can't be started.

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          charliem
          last edited by

          @m3usv0x:

          After the snapshot to fix this, is there some way to update without the GUI or fresh install?

          Perhaps the easiest would be to save your configuration and do a fresh install.  To get your config file, boot into single user mode and get it from /cf/conf/config.xml (and older copies from the backup directory if you want).

          Alternately you can hack /etc/rc as I described above (commenting out everything past cron); this will get you to the console menu where you can choose item 13 "Upgrade from Console"

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            m3usv0x
            last edited by

            @charliem:

            @m3usv0x:

            After the snapshot to fix this, is there some way to update without the GUI or fresh install?

            Perhaps the easiest would be to save your configuration and do a fresh install.  To get your config file, boot into single user mode and get it from /cf/conf/config.xml (and older copies from the backup directory if you want).

            Alternately you can hack /etc/rc as I described above (commenting out everything past cron); this will get you to the console menu where you can choose item 13 "Upgrade from Console"

            How does one "comment out" as you explained?
            After I select "upgrade from console", how do I upgrade? As before with a usb thumbdrive?

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            • M
              m3usv0x
              last edited by

              Config from last install borks a fresh install from an earlier version.

              Is sad.

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                charliem
                last edited by

                @m3usv0x:

                Is sad.

                No, it's alpha

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                  m3usv0x
                  last edited by

                  @charliem:

                  @m3usv0x:

                  Is sad.

                  No, it's alpha

                  Thank you, Captain Obvious.

                  We're all aware it's Alpha.

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                  • pttP
                    ptt Rebel Alliance
                    last edited by

                    Is the same on "amd64-20140529-1554" snapshot (no webconfigurator, boot stuck at starting Cron…), but i was able to login via SSH and perform a "upgrade" ;)

                    
login as: root
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password for root@pfsense.d510:
*** Welcome to pfSense 2.2-ALPHA-pfSense (amd64) on pfsense ***

 WAN (wan)       -> pppoe0     -> v4/PPPoE: 1.1.1.1/32
 LAN (lan)       -> re1        -> v4: 192.168.1.254/24
 GEST (opt1)     -> re0        -> v4: 172.20.254.6/29
 W311U (opt2)    -> run0_wlan1 -> v4: 192.168.0.1/24

 0) Logout (SSH only)                  8) Shell
 1) Assign Interfaces                  9) pfTop
 2) Set interface(s) IP address       10) Filter Logs
 3) Reset webConfigurator password    11) Restart webConfigurator
 4) Reset to factory defaults         12) pfSense Developer Shell
 5) Reboot system                     13) Upgrade from console
 6) Halt system                       14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)
 7) Ping host                         15) Restore recent configuration

Enter an option: 13

Starting the pfSense console firmware update system..

1) Update from a URL
2) Update from a local file
Q) Quit

Please select an option to continue: 1

Enter the URL to the .tgz or .img.gz update file.
Type 'auto' to use http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_stable/10/amd64/pfSense_HEAD/.updaters//latest.tgz
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_stable/10/amd64/pfSense_HEAD/updates/pfSense-Full-Update-2.2-DEVELOPMENT-amd64-20140526-1601.tgz

Fetching file size...

File size: 80085938

Fetching file...
looking up snapshots.pfsense.org
connecting to snapshots.pfsense.org:80
requesting http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_stable/10/amd64/pfSense_HEAD/updates/pfSense-Full-Update-2.2-DEVELOPMENT-amd64-20140526-1601.tgz
remote size / mtime: 80085938 / 1401202722
/root/firmware.tgz                              6% of   76 MB  106 kBps 11m34s

                    edit: fix code tag ;)

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                    • Raul RamosR
                      Raul Ramos
                      last edited by

                      You can update through console or ssh (this one have ssh)

                      Option 13 -> 1 -> "auto"

                      pfSense:
                      ASRock -> Wolfdale1333-D667 (2GB TeamElite Ram)
                      Marvell 88SA8040 Sata to CF(Sandisk 4GB) Controller
                      NIC's: RTL8100E (Internal ) and Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual (Intel 82571GB)

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                        m3usv0x
                        last edited by

                        @mais_um:

                        You can update through console or ssh (this one have ssh)

                        Option 13 -> 1 -> "auto"

                        I've already done this, but for the sake of knowing…
                        If I get stuck at the loader where it get stuck at cron, how do I access the console?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          As Charlie said, hit ^C (Control-C).

                          Steve

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                            charliem
                            last edited by

                            @m3usv0x:

                            @charliem:

                            @m3usv0x:

                            Is sad.

                            No, it's alpha

                            Thank you, Captain Obvious.

                            We're all aware it's Alpha.

                            Yes, but it sounded (to me) like you were expecting more from alpha.

                            To keep this post somewhat on-topic, I noticed an option in the installation menu to "rescue config.xml":

                            < quick/easy install >
< custom install >
< rescue config.xml >
< reboot >
< exit >

                            I haven't tried to use it, but perhaps it would be easier for some rather than using the other methods described in this thread.

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                              m3usv0x
                              last edited by

                              Has anyone downloaded the last snapshot from today at 23:36?

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                                ingmthompson
                                last edited by

                                I updated to amd64-20140529-1755, issue is still present. Tried updating again from SSH, didn't fix it. Restarting webConfigurator from SSH doesn't fix it. Routing and firewall functionality seems to be unaffected.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Mmm, the most recent update file is still far too small, <1MB for the Nano 1G update.

                                  Steve

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                                    charliem
                                    last edited by

                                    Playing with this mornings amd-64 snapshot, as a fresh install in a VM.  As noted earlier, the boot hangs after 'Starting CRON'.  Seems that the guilty line is in /etc/rc:

                                     /usr/local/sbin/fcgicli -f /etc/rc.start_packages

                                    If you comment out only that line in /etc/rc, then the boot completes and goes to the console menu.

                                    Run that line at a console prompt in a recent snapshot, it hangs until you ^C out of it.  But run that line in an earlier, working snapshot, and it completes and returns to the shell.  Note that I'm testing without any packages installed, so the command should not actually do anything for me.

                                    This explains the hanging boot, and may be related to the missing webgui, but I haven't dug that far yet.

                                    As a side note, if you do a fresh install, you can run /etc/sshd by hand to generate the keys.  sshd won't start up until keys are present.

                                    [edit: noted as amd-64 arch]

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                                      charliem
                                      last edited by

                                      The following cases all show a missing webgui and boot hang symptoms described above:

                                      • amd-64, fresh install, 30-May image
                                      • i386, fresh install, 30-May image
                                      • amd-64, fresh install 23-May image (confirmed working and completed the wizard) and then confirmed failing when auto-upgraded to 30-May update
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                                        ingmthompson
                                        last edited by

                                        Still no go for web interface on amd64-20140530-1557.

                                        EDIT: I can get the bootup to complete by running:

                                        
ps aux | grep -i rc

                                        Then finding the PID of /usr/local/sbin/fcgicli -f /etc/rc.start_packages and running:

                                        
kill -9 xxxxx

                                        Where xxxxx is the PID of the process. This doesn't bring up the web interface though.

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                                          adam65535
                                          last edited by

                                          I am running the 30th snapshot on i386 and sshd works for me after running it manually the last time I booted to create the sshd keys.  The GUI doesn't work for me though.

                                          I noticed the same  /usr/local/sbin/fcgicli -f /etc/rc.start_packages command in the process list apparently stuck.  I killed it and then a few more with different rc scripts specified as arguments were launched by minicron I think.  Those are stuck now too.

                                          I ran the tracing command truss manually on one of the command lines and it appears to lock up around the time of writting to /var/run/php-fpm.socket.  php-fpm is running.

                                          truss /usr/local/sbin/fcgicli -f /etc/rc.update_alias_url_data

                                          connect(3,{ AF_UNIX "/var/run/php-fpm.socket" },106) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl(0xbfbfe6c4,0x2,0xbfbfe708,0xbfbfe6c0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl(0xbfbfe6c4,0x2,0xbfbfe808,0xbfbfe6c0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl(0xbfbfe6c4,0x2,0xbfbfe908,0xbfbfe6c0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl(0xbfbfe6c4,0x2,0xbfbfea08,0xbfbfe6c0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl(0xbfbfe6c4,0x2,0xbfbfeb08,0xbfbfe6c0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
madvise(0x28804000,0x1000,0x5,0x281c15f8,0xbfbfe4f4,0x28120ccf) = 0 (0x0)
madvise(0x28816000,0x1000,0x5,0x281c15f8,0xbfbfe4f4,0x28120ccf) = 0 (0x0)
madvise(0x28818000,0x1000,0x5,0x281c15f8,0xbfbfe56c,0x28120ccf) = 0 (0x0)
madvise(0x28803000,0x3000,0x5,0x281c15f8,0xbfbfe57c,0x28120ccf) = 0 (0x0)
write(3,"\^A\^A\0\^A\0\b\0\0\0\^A\0\0\0\0"...,263) = 263 (0x107)

                                          It just sits there forever.  Any /usr/local/sbin/fcgicli command executed even by hand gets stuck there.

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                                            adam65535
                                            last edited by

                                            I got the GUI working.  I killed php-fpm and restarted it.  So this is related to php-fpm somehow not starting up properly or something hanging it up.

                                            killall php-fpm

                                            /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm -c /usr/local/lib/php.ini -y /usr/local/lib/php-fpm.conf -RD 2>&1 >/dev/null

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