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      xbipin
      last edited by

      what do u mean dead, it works fine, upgrades also work all good, its currently on UFS, other than saving to www folder all the other functions work perfectly fine

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        doktornotor Banned
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        I am 300% sure your issue will go away as soon as you switch to 2.2.2 or older, predating the UFS improvements. If you want to use something newer, also 300% sure it won't work with your media.

        
        time rc.conf_mount_rw
        ee /usr/local/www/system.php (make your changes)
        time rc.conf_mount_ro
        
        

        Observe how wonderfully it performs.  ::)

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          xbipin
          last edited by

          it was saving files on 2.2.4 perfectly fine, i have another alix box with a different CF and on that too it saves in pfsense 2.2.4.

          just with recent snaps of 2.2.5 it stopped saving, older snaps of 2.2.5 it was saving fine

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            doktornotor Banned
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            Yeah OK. See hints above. Merely telling you that UFS is broken beyond repair with CF (or any "slow" media in general). Additionally, if you only see this with specific files, I'm very sure the media is faulty or filesystem broken, definitely not "working fine". Again, there are logs, or dmesg even.

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              xbipin
              last edited by

              the logs etc dont mention anything of failure and i think it has to be something with the permissions on the www folder because almost any other file i tried outside it works, just all the files within the www folder exhibit this behaviour and even upgrading to a newer snap has the same issues

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                doktornotor Banned
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                If it were the directory permissions, you wouldn't be able to edit anything there. Not just system.php. Really. Also, it's extremely easy to check the permissions.

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                  xbipin
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                  here is a dmesg log

                  $ dmesg
                  Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
                  Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
                  	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
                  FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
                  FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p20 #0 4c99fec(releng/10.1)-dirty: Mon Sep 21 12:06:53 CDT 2015
                      root@pfs22-i386-builder:/usr/obj.RELENG_2_2.i386/usr/pfSensesrc/src.RELENG_2_2/sys/pfSense_wrap.10.i386 i386
                  FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
                  VT: running with driver "vga".
                  CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (498.06-MHz 586-class CPU)
                    Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x5a2  Family = 0x5  Model = 0xa  Stepping = 2
                    Features=0x88a93d <fpu,de,pse,tsc,msr,cx8,sep,pge,cmov,clflush,mmx>AMD Features=0xc0400000 <mmx+,3dnow!+,3dnow!>real memory  = 268435456 (256 MB)
                  avail memory = 226222080 (215 MB)
                  pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
                  wlan: mac acl policy registered
                  kbd0 at kbdmux0
                  K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
                  random: <software, yarrow=""> initialized
                  ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20130823/tbxfroot-223)
                  ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
                  ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
                  cryptosoft0: <software crypto=""> on motherboard
                  padlock0: No ACE support.
                  pcib0 pcibus 0 on motherboard
                  pci0: <pci bus=""> on pcib0
                  Geode LX: PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99m tinyBIOS V1.4a (C)1997-2007
                  pci0: <encrypt decrypt,="" entertainment="" crypto=""> at device 1.2 (no driver attached)
                  vr0: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx=""> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xe0000000-0xe00000ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
                  vr0: Quirks: 0x2
                  vr0: Revision: 0x96
                  miibus0: <mii bus=""> on vr0
                  ukphy0: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface=""> PHY 1 on miibus0
                  ukphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
                  vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:13:47:84
                  vr1: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx=""> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xe0040000-0xe00400ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
                  vr1: Quirks: 0x2
                  vr1: Revision: 0x96
                  miibus1: <mii bus=""> on vr1
                  ukphy1: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface=""> PHY 1 on miibus1
                  ukphy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
                  vr1: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:13:47:85
                  vr2: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx=""> port 0x1800-0x18ff mem 0xe0080000-0xe00800ff irq 15 at device 11.0 on pci0
                  vr2: Quirks: 0x2
                  vr2: Revision: 0x96
                  miibus2: <mii bus=""> on vr2
                  ukphy2: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface=""> PHY 1 on miibus2
                  ukphy2:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
                  vr2: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:13:47:86
                  ath0: <atheros 5413=""> mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
                  ath0: AR5413 mac 10.5 RF5413 phy 6.1
                  ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0063
                  isab0: <pci-isa bridge=""> port 0x6000-0x6007,0x6100-0x61ff,0x6200-0x623f,0x9d00-0x9d7f,0x9c00-0x9c3f at device 15.0 on pci0
                  isa0: <isa bus=""> on isab0
                  atapci0: <amd cs5536="" udma100="" controller=""> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 15.2 on pci0
                  ata0: <ata channel=""> at channel 0 on atapci0
                  ata1: <ata channel=""> at channel 1 on atapci0
                  ohci0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller=""> mem 0xefffe000-0xefffefff irq 12 at device 15.4 on pci0
                  usbus0 on ohci0
                  ehci0: <amd cs5536="" (geode)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller=""> mem 0xefffd000-0xefffdfff irq 12 at device 15.5 on pci0
                  usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
                  usbus1 on ehci0
                  cpu0 on motherboard
                  pmtimer0 on isa0
                  orm0: <isa option="" rom=""> at iomem 0xe0000-0xea7ff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
                  atrtc0: <at realtime="" clock=""> at port 0x70 irq 8 on isa0
                  Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
                  attimer0: <at timer=""> at port 0x40 on isa0
                  Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
                  Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
                  ppc0: parallel port not found.
                  uart0: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
                  uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
                  uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
                  Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
                  IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
                  usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                  usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
                  ugen0.1: <amd> at usbus0
                  uhub0: <amd 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr=""> on usbus0
                  ugen1.1: <amd> at usbus1
                  uhub1: <amd 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr=""> on usbus1
                  ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
                  ada0: <cf 20071116="" 1gb=""> ATA-0 device
                  ada0: Serial Number TSS20036081218011525
                  ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
                  ada0: 991MB (2031120 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 2015C)
                  ada0: Previously was known as ad0
                  random: unblocking device.
                  Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498060650 Hz quality 800
                  Root mount waiting for: usbus1 usbus0
                  uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
                  Root mount waiting for: usbus1
                  uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
                  Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 [ro,sync,noatime]...
                  vr1: link state changed to DOWN
                  ng0: changing name to 'pppoe0'
                  vr1: link state changed to UP
                  vr0: link state changed to DOWN
                  tun1: changing name to 'ovpnc1'
                  pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
                  DUMMYNET 0 with IPv6 initialized (100409)
                  load_dn_sched dn_sched FIFO loaded
                  load_dn_sched dn_sched QFQ loaded
                  load_dn_sched dn_sched RR loaded
                  load_dn_sched dn_sched WF2Q+ loaded
                  load_dn_sched dn_sched PRIO loaded
                  vr0: link state changed to UP
                  ovpnc1: link state changed to UP</cf></amd></amd></amd></amd></at></at></isa></amd></ohci></ata></ata></amd></isa></pci-isa></atheros></generic></mii></via></generic></mii></via></generic></mii></via></encrypt></pci></software></software,></mmx+,3dnow!+,3dnow!></fpu,de,pse,tsc,msr,cx8,sep,pge,cmov,clflush,mmx>
                  
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                    doktornotor Banned
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                    $ ls -la /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.*
                    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  8813 Jun  1 19:41 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.inc
                    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5778 Jun  1 19:41 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.xml
                    
                    $ ls -la /usr/local/www/system.php
                    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  20278 Jul 19 22:42 /usr/local/www/system.php
                    
                    $ ls -ld /usr/local/www
                    drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  285 Sep 27 23:47 /usr/local/www
                    
                    

                    Really nothing special there. It's the same like any other file there.

                    Looking at "CF 1GB" in the dmesg output - are you sure you simple are not out of space???

                    
                    ada0: <cf 20071116="" 1gb="">ATA-0 device
                    ada0: Serial Number TSS20036081218011525
                    ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
                    ada0: 991MB (2031120 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 2015C)</cf> 
                    
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                      xbipin
                      last edited by

                      i tried editing using winscp and that too fails

                      permissions r as below

                      $ ls -la /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.*
                      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  8862 Sep 26 11:37 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.inc
                      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5051 Sep 26 11:35 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.xml
                      
                      $ ls -la /usr/local/www/system.php
                      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  20278 Sep 21 20:40 /usr/local/www/system.php
                      
                      $ ls -ld /usr/local/www
                      drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  8704 Sep 26 11:33 /usr/local/www
                      
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                        xbipin
                        last edited by

                        the CF is almost empty, i just use pfsense and the cron package

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                          doktornotor Banned
                          last edited by

                          Almost empty? Pardon me, but if it shows almost empty, there's something very wrong with your FS. That space gives you rougly 450MB per each slice, which is just about enough for basic system. Could you just do a real check what's the space there? Because "almost empty" is nonsense.

                          
                          $ df -h
                          Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
                          /dev/ufs/pfsense0    908M    341M    494M    41%    /
                          
                          

                          This is from a 2GB CF nanobsd install. Just 2.2.4 system itself. As you can see there, that's almost 350MB, and the 2.2.5 thing is bigger, due to python being included.

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                            xbipin
                            last edited by

                            $ df -h
                            Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
                            /dev/ufs/pfsense0    443M    248M    159M    61%    /
                            devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
                            /dev/ufs/cf           49M    1.1M     44M     2%    /cf
                            /dev/md0              38M    572K     35M     2%    /tmp
                            /dev/md1              58M     13M     40M    25%    /var
                            devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
                            

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                              doktornotor Banned
                              last edited by

                              Well, so much for almost empty. Other than that - backup the config and re-image the card… If that doesn't work, get a new one.

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                                xbipin
                                last edited by

                                seems like other things also broken, i did the below things

                                • got a brand new 2GB CF card and flashed the last 2.2.5 snap onto it
                                • booted and came to the web gui
                                • tried to restore backed up config and the page keeps going on and on
                                • tried multiple times and even with different browsers but still wont restore the config

                                now the thing about broken CF card is out of the picture and secondly something as simple as restoring the config using the web GUI should atleast work right, i even tried editing the file also from edit file page and situation is still same

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                                  doktornotor Banned
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                                  Well, install 2.2.2 or older, restore config, upgrade… Again, you are chasing completely fails trails here with 2.2.5. This nanobsd thing got badly screwed with CF cards ever since the filesystem fiddling. Worst being 2.2.3 with the UFS+SU/J nonsense, completely unusable. 2.2.4+ is somehow usable with permanent RW.

                                  Other than that, get a different CF brand. Some of the pfS devs suggested Transcend 133x cards were working well for him.

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                                    xbipin
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                                    well i keep my CF permanently RW and all the things i tried were with that only but still no luck

                                    to get back online i had to replug old CF.

                                    i dont have much issues in delay while moving from read only to read write, i use SLC cards

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                                      xbipin
                                      last edited by

                                      i mounted CF as RW permanent and then tried using ee to edit the system.php and then it edits fine but when i do it from edit file in gui it doesnt so i guess something wrong in the GUI in some php function or so which could be the cause of config also not restoring

                                      even tried using winscp and am able to edit any file

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        I can't reproduce this here on my ALIX. On the current 2.2.5 snap I can edit /usr/local/www/system.php and the edit works fine.

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                                          xbipin
                                          last edited by

                                          how do we enable debugging in lighthttpd to figure out what is actually happening because no errors appear anywhere so its difficult to figure out whats going wrong

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                                            robi
                                            last edited by

                                            Maybe clearing your browser's cache or starting with a new browser on a new PC would help…

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