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    Pfsync kernel panic after 2.1.5 to 2.2 to Upgrade - pfsync_undefer_state

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • stephenw10S Offline
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      Great. We are trying to replicate this but are just seeing continuous error messages without the crash.
      Do any of you have any special Limiter setup? Can you give any details?

      Steve

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Marlenio,
        Looks like the most recent crash report we have from that IP is Mar 3rd. Could they have come from a different IP?

        Steve

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          Marlenio
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          @stephenw10:

          Marlenio,
          Looks like the most recent crash report we have from that IP is Mar 3rd. Could they have come from a different IP?

          Steve

          Hi steve,
          213.215.138 is VIP of the first output array of pfSense (2 units HA mode). Master IP is 213.215.138.67, BACKUP 213.215.138.71. Let me know if you find it.

          Thanks in advance,

          –
          Mario (Marlenio)

          Marlenio

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          • stephenw10S Offline
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Nothing from anything in that /24 subnet since Mar 3rd.  :-\

            Steve

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              Marlenio
              last edited by

              @stephenw10:

              Nothing from anything in that /24 subnet since Mar 3rd.  :-\

              Steve

              It 's very strange. I'm sure it was sent at least three times.  :(

              Marlenio

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                tdale
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                https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4310

                Can anyone tell us where that patch is, We are having the same issues when applying limiters with CARP and HA.

                Thanks,

                Tom

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                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Yes, that patch is in 2.2.1 and has been in snaps since Feb.
                  If you are seeing this problem and are running 2.2.1 can you make sure you keep any crashreports and tell us what hardware you're running.
                  Thanks.

                  Steve

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                    Mathiew
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                    I have to same problem when I upgrade Pfsense from 2.1.5 to 2.2.1…

                    Pfsense is running on virtualcenter 2.5. (Never had this before)

                    I tried twice, but nothing changed, this message is looping on the screen, and vm is using 100% CPU. There's no crash, but pfsense is useless.

                    I'm not using any high availability services (only limiters)

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                      Marlenio
                      last edited by

                      Yes, it's the same error on my carp 2.2.1 with limiters.

                      Marlenio

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                        flofogl
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                        Steve,

                        I would really like to help but don't know how. Have you been able to reproduce the behavior? I am back on 2.1.5 now and could repeat the update process. Apart from the non-existing crash reports what else would you need or could be useful?

                        I have HA and limiters configured and pfSense runs on KVM/QEMU.

                        As mentioned before, I got "pfsync_undefer_state: unable to find deferred state" printed in the console after the upgrade process on the backup node (after reboot).

                        I got Mathiew's behavior when I tried to restore my 2.1.5 configuration from the backup node on a fresh install with 2.2.1. In both cases, I had to "physically" shut down the machine.

                        Florian

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                        • stephenw10S Offline
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          So we are able to replicate the continuous log spam but not any sort of crash. Though in our test the box remained running and accessible. We are looking for crash reports really but any info is useful.

                          Mathiew, you are seeing that on a single VM? No CARP/HA setup at all?
                          That's interesting. What NICs are you using? What limiters do you have defined?

                          Steve

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                            Mathiew
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                            One VM only, I tried to import the config file on a fresh pfsense 2.2.1 install, but I had the exact same behavior.

                            No CARP/HA setup. I use a a lot of services, openvpn, ipsec, limiters.

                            I can send you my config file, if needed. I use E1000 adapter.

                            Limiters:
                            00001: 700.000 Kbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131073  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65537 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65537 type FIFO flags 0x1 256 buckets 1 active
                                mask:  0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0xffffff00/0x0000
                            BKT Prot Source IP/port_ Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp
                            80 ip          0.0.0.0/0      192.168.100.0/0        4      336  0    0  0
                            00002:  10.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131074  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65538 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65538 type FIFO flags 0x1 256 buckets 1 active
                                mask:  0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0xffffff00/0x0000
                            BKT Prot Source IP/port_ Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp
                            80 ip          0.0.0.0/0      192.168.101.0/0        4      336  0    0  0
                            00003:  1.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131075  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65539 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65539 type FIFO flags 0x1 256 buckets 0 active
                                mask:  0x00 0xffffff00/0x0000 -> 0x00000000/0x0000
                            BKT Prot Source IP/port_ Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp
                            00005:  2.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131077  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65541 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65541 type FIFO flags 0x1 256 buckets 1 active
                                mask:  0x00 0xffffff00/0x0000 -> 0x00000000/0x0000
                            BKT Prot Source IP/port_ Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp
                              0 ip        10.0.17.0/0            0.0.0.0/0    11056 14116413  0    0  0
                            00006:  3.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131078  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65542 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65542 type FIFO flags 0x0 0 buckets 1 active
                              0 ip          0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0      19    1118  0    0  0
                            00007:  2.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131079  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65543 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65543 type FIFO flags 0x0 0 buckets 0 active
                            00008:  1.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 0
                            q131080  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65544 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
                            sched 65544 type FIFO flags 0x0 0 buckets 1 active
                              0 ip          0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0      79    40016  0    0  0

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                              tdale
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                              @stephenw10 Is there something i can provide to you to help out? We are using two physical machines running two Dell CS24s with dual cpus and 16GB ram each and these are our front line. This is a production environment so i wont be able to make a ton of changes but i can give you information. Just let me know what you need me to post.

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                              • stephenw10S Offline
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                If you see any crash reports then we want to see those.
                                Other than that it's odd that not everyone running is seeing the same thing. If there's something unusual in your config then maybe we can try to see a pattern.

                                Steve

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                                  flofogl
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                                  I repeated the upgrade process today after having disabled my floating limiter rules and it worked.

                                  However, as soon as I enabled any of them the console didn’t stop printing "pfsync_undefer_state: unable to find deferred state". The first time I wasn’t quick enough in disabling the rules and the machine got unresponsive with no CPU load (no crash report).

                                  After a reboot I was able to disable the rules and the machine stayed responsive. I then deactivated “Synchronize States” and enabled the floating limiter rules. Apart from the known “Bump sched buckets to 256 (was 0)” the console remained unchanged. As soon as I activated state synchronization "pfsync_undefer_state: unable to find deferred state" was back again.

                                  In contrast to Mathiew I can choose whether to have either HA or limiters.

                                  This was done on a backup node, the master still runs 2.1.5.

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                                  • stephenw10S Offline
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                    Thanks for that report flofogal. All data is helpful.

                                    Steve

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                                      Mathiew
                                      last edited by

                                      I removed my limiters rules from the config and it's working, no more psync error…

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                                      • stephenw10S Offline
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        Mathiew,
                                        I have seen one other incidence of this in a single box (not part of a HA setup). IN that case the box previously had a CARP config of some sort and had stray tags in the config file that had not been translated correctly across an update.
                                        In that instance it was fixed by enabling HA sync, saving, and the disabling HA sync again. Limiters could then be used.

                                        Steve

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                                          flofogl
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                                          Steve,

                                          if you say "fixed" it means that limiters could be used without HA afterwards not together with HA. It is a solution to Mathiew's issue only. Correct?

                                          Cheers,

                                          Florian

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                                            Mathiew
                                            last edited by

                                            @stephenw10:

                                            Mathiew,
                                            I have seen one other incidence of this in a single box (not part of a HA setup). IN that case the box previously had a CARP config of some sort and had stray tags in the config file that had not been translated correctly across an update.
                                            In that instance it was fixed by enabling HA sync, saving, and the disabling HA sync again. Limiters could then be used.

                                            Steve

                                            I can try, but I never touch any HA/CARP services on this machine.

                                            Thanks for your work.

                                            EDIT : I reactivated limiters after doing that and no problem so far.

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