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    • J
      jbedgood
      last edited by

      @RonpfS:

      Maybe you could post the pfblockerng.log from the last successfull update till now. Extras.log and error.log.

      And a screenshot of the Feeds, and DNSBL Easylist in case we see something.
      When you go to the Update tab, does it show the running status ?

      I had cleared the logs so I could find the hang because there was so much in there I couldn't tell where it was. So there is no successful attempts in it any longer. I can post the pictures of the easylist sure and I can post the update tab running status but its the same that the pfblockerng.log shows..just the DNSBL Process started.

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      ![Screen Shot 2016-09-05 at 3.09.30 PM.png](/public/imported_attachments/1/Screen Shot 2016-09-05 at 3.09.30 PM.png)
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      • RonpfSR
        RonpfS
        last edited by

        Well it possible to download the log to your computer and look at it with a text editor.
        Now you don't have much to debug the failure mode.

        Go to Diagnostice Command prompt and execute

        ps -axwwwll | grep pfb
        

        Do you see many pfblockerng.php running?

        2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
        Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
        Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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        • J
          jbedgood
          last edited by

          @RonpfS:

          Well it possible to download the log to your computer and look at it with a text editor.
          Now you don't have much to debug the failure mode.

          Go to Diagnostice Command prompt and execute

          ps -axwwwll | grep pfb
          

          Do you see many pfblockerng.php running?

          No I manually kill the process because it just hangs there. So there is none running right now. If I run the update again there will be one process running and won't stop unless I manually stop it. I have let it go for days in the past to see if it would complete and it never did.

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          • RonpfSR
            RonpfS
            last edited by

            @jbedgood:

            I had cleared the logs so I could find the hang because there was so much in there I couldn't tell where it was. So there is no successful attempts in it any longer.

            Go to the Firewall / pfBlockerNG / Log Browser and look at the files. You can download them in that tab.

            What about a screen shots of the DNSBL feeds ?

            Disable all DNSBL feeds excepts DNSBL EasyList, hit Force Reload All and post the log.

            2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
            Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
            Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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            • J
              jbedgood
              last edited by

              @RonpfS:

              @jbedgood:

              I had cleared the logs so I could find the hang because there was so much in there I couldn't tell where it was. So there is no successful attempts in it any longer.

              Go to the Firewall / pfBlockerNG / Log Browser and look at the files. You can download them in that tab.

              What about a screen shots of the DNSBL feeds ?

              Disable all DNSBL feeds excepts DNSBL EasyList, hit Force Reload All and post the log.

              These are the only log files that had anything in them

              [log files.zip](/public/imported_attachments/1/log files.zip)

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              • RonpfSR
                RonpfS
                last edited by

                No extras.log ? maxmind_ver ? dnsbl.log error.log ? or you empty them?

                2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                • J
                  jbedgood
                  last edited by

                  @RonpfS:

                  No extras.log ? maxmind_ver ? dnsbl.log error.log ? or you empty them?

                  I had emptied them all before and when I do the for reload all nothing shows up in them.

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                  • RonpfSR
                    RonpfS
                    last edited by

                    Why?  :o

                    You lost the history of what happened. Log files don't do any harm to the system and will not break anything in pfblockerNG.

                    Just a wild guess would be to put something in the description field but it may not change anything.

                    2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                    Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                    Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                    • RonpfSR
                      RonpfS
                      last edited by

                      Are you able to download the Easylist URL https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist_noelemhide.txt &
                      https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt ?

                      Nothing is blocking in the FW logs?

                      2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                      Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                      Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                      • J
                        jbedgood
                        last edited by

                        @RonpfS:

                        Why?  :o

                        You lost the history of what happened. Log files don't do any harm to the system and will not break anything in pfblockerNG.

                        Just a wild guess would be to put something in the description field but it may not change anything.

                        I cleared the logs to find the error easier but the logs weren't showing any real errors so it was a lost cause no matter what for that.

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                        • RonpfSR
                          RonpfS
                          last edited by

                          What did you select in the Alexa Whitelist ? It hangs with Top 750K and Top 1M  :(

                          2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                          Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                          Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                          • BBcan177B
                            BBcan177 Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Hi jbedgood,

                            I see the issue and will get that fixed in the next release… In the meantime, I have PM'd you a fix.

                            Thanks for reporting...

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