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      BreeOge
      last edited by

      @john_galt:

      Well I got home from work and all appears to be working. GUI responsive, Serial console okay. VPN answered several times during the day. Still I think I'll follow others and reinstall and restore a recent config. Good time to switch to ZFS.

      Thanks for listening.

      Doug

      Please keep us updated, I was wondering that myself if a fresh install to the newest release would fix issues. I know they had a major issue the other day and had to revert due to upgrade problems.

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        john_galt
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        Jinxed myself. 502 Bad Gateway nginx

        Going to nurse it along until the weekend when I can get an 18 pack
        and re-install.

        Doug

        Doug

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          BreeOge
          last edited by

          https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7923

          Thank you doktornotor

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            BreeOge
            last edited by

            BBcan177

            Just letting you know of another thread on this, trying to narrow the issue down.  Wanted to make you aware of the other thread.

            https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg754247#new

            Thank you sir.
            BreeOge

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              john_galt
              last edited by

              I made the edits in this post:

              https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg754338#msg754338

              Now my pfSense isn't locking up as I had reported before.

              Doug

              Doug

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              • john_galtJ
                john_galt
                last edited by

                I have reinstalled 2.4.0-R with ZFS and restored my previous config file. I reset pfBlockerNG.
                I will report any of the previous symptoms if the occur.

                Doug

                Doug

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                • BBcan177B
                  BBcan177 Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @BreeOge:

                  BBcan177

                  Just letting you know of another thread on this, trying to narrow the issue down.  Wanted to make you aware of the other thread.

                  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg754247#new

                  Thank you sir.
                  BreeOge

                  Thanks for helping work thru the issue… I will work on converting that to use an SQLite3 database as recommended by jimp... I have just shied away in the past on using any SQL dbs...

                  For those that remove that section of code in the index.php, that will stop the widget DNSBL counters from populating, however all else will still function as-is...

                  "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                  Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                  Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                  Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                    StyleNZ
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                    Hey, don't know what thread to post this on, but I am using a nanobsd install of pfsense and want to upgrade. I just want to know if pfblockerng is running okay with the new release before switching and if I do a backup of my config, and import, will that be ok without issues?

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                      BreeOge
                      last edited by

                      If you use the ZFS file system (If you do a full reload) It will work just fine. If you just upgrade or re-install with the UFS file system, then pfBlockerNG will lock up the system with a 502 bad gateway error.

                      https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.0

                      In that thread there is a current work around, but like BBcan stated, if you do the work around your widget will not update properly.

                      BreeOge

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                        belt9
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                        I wanted to chime in here as I just updated from a month old RC to 2.4.0-RELEASE last night and ran into this problem today.

                        I haven't read through all of the many pages of the many threads that seem related to this issue (show how popular pfBNG is!), so maybe this has already been covered.

                        But I've seen several people state that this doesn't happen on ZFS - I have a raidz2 ZFS install, and this happened to me, just throwing that out there.

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                          BreeOge
                          last edited by

                          @belt9:

                          I wanted to chime in here as I just updated from a month old RC to 2.4.0-RELEASE last night and ran into this problem today.

                          I haven't read through all of the many pages of the many threads that seem related to this issue (show how popular pfBNG is!), so maybe this has already been covered.

                          But I've seen several people state that this doesn't happen on ZFS - I have a raidz2 ZFS install, and this happened to me, just throwing that out there.

                          That is good to know. Thank you for the report.  BBcan177 is currently updating it to use SQLlite and this should fix any issues in the future.  In the other thread there is a temp fix posted..

                          https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.75

                          Thank you
                          BreeOge

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                          • JailerJ
                            Jailer
                            last edited by

                            Looks like there is an update available in the package manager. Where can one find release notes for the new version? I'm wondering if this has the fix in it.

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                              Cino
                              last edited by

                              @Jailer:

                              Looks like there is an update available in the package manager. Where can one find release notes for the new version? I'm wondering if this has the fix in it.

                              https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/fe101279ac400e2794fa27780f020c0bbe1c8caa
                              https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/424

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                                pfcode
                                last edited by

                                @Cino:

                                @Jailer:

                                Looks like there is an update available in the package manager. Where can one find release notes for the new version? I'm wondering if this has the fix in it.

                                https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/fe101279ac400e2794fa27780f020c0bbe1c8caa
                                https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/424

                                Has it fix the issue??

                                Release: pfSense 2.4.3(amd64)
                                M/B: Supermicro A1SRi-2558F
                                HDD: Intel X25-M 160G
                                RAM: 2x8Gb Kingston ECC ValueRAM
                                AP: Netgear R7000 (XWRT), Unifi AC Pro

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                                  strigona
                                  last edited by

                                  @pfcode:

                                  @Cino:

                                  @Jailer:

                                  Looks like there is an update available in the package manager. Where can one find release notes for the new version? I'm wondering if this has the fix in it.

                                  https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/fe101279ac400e2794fa27780f020c0bbe1c8caa
                                  https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/424

                                  Has it fix the issue??

                                  No. That update was initiated 18 days ago and is unrelated to the current issue.

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                                    BreeOge
                                    last edited by

                                    We are currently testing a fix, if all goes well you should see an update soon.

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                                    • BBcan177B
                                      BBcan177 Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      I am going to make a PR shortly to hopefully fix this issue….

                                      You could download these two files from my Github gist to get the updated code:

                                      fetch -o /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/9f9c8e62b166cee07ad16cd4ff59103c/raw"

fetch -o /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/7ff15715be0f02afdbe0a00c676aedce/raw"

                                      You will need to restart the DNSBL Service for this to take effect.

                                      A reboot is not required, but would be recommended.

                                      "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                                      Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                                      Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                                      Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                                      • JailerJ
                                        Jailer
                                        last edited by

                                        @BreeOge:

                                        We are currently testing a fix, if all goes well you should see an update soon.

                                        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg756625#msg756625

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                                          akong
                                          last edited by

                                          I have get 502 Bad Gateway and use pfsense 2.4.0 pfblockerng 2.1.2
                                          How to fix it?

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                                            bctrainers
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                                            Hi, one thing i am noticing with pfBlockerNG is that it may be missing an end-double quote on its shell commands?

                                            root    81266   0.0  0.0  13084   2780  -  D    19:50        0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/grep -l ' "dmd\\.metaservices\\.microsoft\\.com 60 IN A' /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsblalias/*
root    81779   0.0  0.0  13084   2780  -  D    19:51        0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/grep -l ' "rules\\.quantcount\\.com 60 IN A' /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsblalias/*
root    82010   0.0  0.0  13084   2780  -  D    19:51        0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/grep -l ' "rules\\.quantcount\\.com 60 IN A' /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsblalias/*

                                            pfSense GUI was also seized up once more.

                                            pkill, killall, and other assorted commands all fail to kill the commands running above.

                                            Shell is accessible (otherwise, how would i be able to post the above code block!)  :D

                                            Additional running services are also inaccessible; ntopng, OpenVPN. Fairly certain the box has all the latest packages/updates installed.

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