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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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