New 502 Bad Gateway
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If anything removing TrafficTotals has made things worse rather than better. I only rebooted on Sunday night to get management back, and now 48 hours later I'm getting the 502's again. Maybe its just a freak occurence, I don't know, but as is somethings badly broken.
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From what i 'think' happens TrafficTotals does not cause the problem. But might experience the same symptom as pfBlocker..
For those using TrafficTotals and experiencing the problem it would be nice to get some information in 'why' the vnstat process hangs during a set of actions mostly unrelated to what pfBlocker does as they might have the same root cause for 'hanging'.. So truss, lsof and possibly gdb output would be nice to see especially as its a easy separated process unlike pfBlocker/lighttpd/php chain thats harder to run separately. Also it would be good to see if vnstat still hangs when gathering stats for less and or different interfaces.. Both while there are already hanging vnstat processes, gather details, and after killing all those processes try if it still hangs. (without rebooting..)
Yes 'something' is broken. but only a +1 wont help fix it.. i think its already high on the attention list of BBcan177, and i'm interested in this topic as well and probably a few others that passively 'monitor' this thread, but i doubt it can be properly fixed without detailed information and a good understanding of why the problem happens.
Please gather information some about running vnstat processes (when more than 1 starts running.) for those that have TrafficTotals installed. Preferably on pfSense 2.4.2 though not sure if that would help for anything..
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I'm happy to help if any more command output is required. I haven't rebooted it yet since the 502's started again on Tuesday. Given the day thats in it, I'll leave it be unless it starts dropping traffic.
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We were also having issues with 502 Bad Gateway, 2.4.0 release, PFBlockerNG, Snort, OpenVPN Exporter…I noticed our issues after enabling DNS Resolver. Maybe it is just a coincidence but not even 30 minutes after turning that on and we got 502 errors. Rebooted, disabled PFBlockerNG, same problem the following day. Rebooted again, switched back to DNS forwarder and uninstalled PFBlockerNG, been stable since. Without the DNS resolver enabled we were stable with PFBlockerNG installed for over a week. After enabling the DNS Resolver, we went down quick. I'll keep this forum up to date if we do go down again and I have to rule out the DNS Resolver as the culprit, but for now, that's what it looks like from our end.
Edit: Forgot to post this is on Netgate hardware, can't remember which one though and I'm not in the office.
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For those willing to give some new code a try i have made a few changes to the 'file locking' code of pfBlockerNG.. :)
Could some of you try if the changes made improve things?https://github.com/PiBa-NL/FreeBSD-ports/commit/1766713b26c8f388ad6e7909b2e971f7d74cdfea
Changes are as following:
- include globals.inc so the /tmp/ folder is know to be used for placing lock files instead of the root /
- dont try and lock a resource handle with try_lock as a 'resource-(descriptive)-name' is expected
- use 1 lock around the stats file re-writing code, having 2 locks for the same piece of code is not needed.
- remove the force_unlock called on a 'Resource #10' which wasn't used to create a lock anyhow..
It should be possible to apply the patch with systempatches package.
To add a new patch that way press add then fill in:
Description: pfBlocker_dnsbl_statsfile_locking
File: https://github.com/PiBa-NL/FreeBSD-ports/commit/1766713b26c8f388ad6e7909b2e971f7d74cdfea.patch
PathStrip: 4
Base: /
IgnoreWhitespace: Checked
AutoApply: UncheckedSave, Fetch, Apply
A message should show "Patch applied successfully".
To revert it should be possible to just press 'Revert' which appears after the patch is applied.. If all fails, reinstall pfBlocker package "pkg install -f pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG"
Edit :
FYI: pfBlocker 2.1.2_2 includes this patch. -
Hmm… test output is not inspiring confidence. Patch test output:
/usr/bin/patch --directory=/ -f -p4 -i /var/patches/5a17809ef2593.patch --check --reverse --ignore-whitespace Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |From 1766713b26c8f388ad6e7909b2e971f7d74cdfea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |From: PiBa-NL |Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 01:37:34 +0100 |Subject: [PATCH] pfBlockerNG, implement proper locking of dnsbl_info file to | avoid possible corruption | |–- | .../usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc | 30 ++++++++----------- | .../files/usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php | 35 ++++++++++------------ | 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) | |diff --git a/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc b/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc |index 0fddd745065b..c6379b8dab38 100644 |--- a/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc |+++ b/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc -------------------------- Patching file usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc using Plan A... Hunk #1 failed at 2500. 1 out of 1 hunks failed while patching usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc Hmm... The next patch looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff --git a/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php b/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php |index 0b864797146e..8992f4a0342f 100644 |--- a/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php |+++ b/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php -------------------------- Patching file usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php using Plan A... Hunk #1 failed at 28. Hunk #2 failed at 71. 2 out of 2 hunks failed while patching usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php done -
dstroot, are you running latest/unmodified pfBlockerNG 2.1.2_1 version? On that version, the patch above should apply cleanly.
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Yes, see attached. Cheers!
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Wierd, can you reinstall it? 'pkg install -f pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG'
Same patch applies without issue on my 2.1.2_1, you havn't replaced anything with one of the previous files from bbcan's links or manually changed any part?Or did you check the 'revert' test results? Below would be the expected test result:
Patch can be applied cleanly (detail) Patch can NOT be reverted cleanly (detail)Revert only works after the patch is applied already.
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I think the "Can NOT be reverted cleanly" through me off. I just checked and mine and got the results you show so I applied the patch and it applied successfully. I will report if the 502s go away. Cheers!
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Same error here. It is quite annoying as my pfsense installation ran smoothly. Since 2.4 I have to schedule reboots.
Any workaround except commenting out the code?
Are the developer working on it? Otherwise I do test the competitor product.Thanks,
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Fortrash, please try the patch: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg767259#msg767259
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Thanks any chance to help the developer?
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Thanks any chance to help the developer?
How do you mean?
Patches are made by developers.. Testing if it indeed fixes the issue would help, but thats something 'you' (users that experience the actual issue) have to do..
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Thanks, I am testing the patch.
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guys check my post here
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=110515.msg766964#msg766964
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Running pfsense 2.4.1-RELEASE with pfBlockerNG on 2.1.2_1 installed and also running OpenVPN server. When the Bad Gateway error happened, OpenVPN clients couldn't connect as well. Rebooting fixed it for now. Any news on when the patch might be rolled into an update? Thanks, Russ
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PatPend, any news on if the patch helps? ::) may i presume your running with pfBlocker dns blocklists enabled as well?
If there is no positive feedback on its results then there is no need to commit it right? I hope there are no new problems reported by the people that applied the patch, and that they can confirm the problem did not return or at the very least took longer to re-appear.. Would be nice that in a week time they could say it has been running stable..
In the mean time please feel free to apply the patch to your own installation and test it out as well.
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PatPend, any news on if the patch helps? ::) may i presume your running with pfBlocker dns blocklists enabled as well?
If there is no positive feedback on its results then there is no need to commit it right? I hope there are no new problems reported by the people that applied the patch, and that they can confirm the problem did not return or at the very least took longer to re-appear.. Would be nice that in a week time they could say it has been running stable..
In the mean time please feel free to apply the patch to your own installation and test it out as well.
I applied the patch today, so far so good. I'm running with easylist and easylist privacy plus 28 custom entries to block smart TV traffic. Last time it took about 10 days before hitting the 502 (of course when it did I was out of town when it also took out OpenVPN ::) ).
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For those willing to give some new code a try i have made a few changes to the 'file locking' code of pfBlockerNG.. :)
Thanks PiBa, hopefully we get some feedback to see if this resolves this issue… and we can get it merged!
