pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling
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How would I reinstall pkg_edit.php?
I am getting it intermittently, I have 48 pfsense firewalls.
I first noticed it on my home firewall when 2.4.3 was just released, probably the Saturday after, my kids were yelling they had no internet, pfblocker stopped allowing all traffic, so I disabled it and it worked, so I updated to 2.4.3 and the pfblocker entry was gone, so I tried re-installing no dice, so I just removed it and went about my day. It's my home firewall, my only open ports are SSLVPN and Plex.
Then yesterday, I was fixing a client's mailserver, they had an accounting email that kept getting locked out. Well the mailserver was blocking password guessing attempts from china/india and amsterdam. That's when I went to install pfblockerng and it didn't work. I futzed around with it.
Then today I went on to my office firewall and installed pfblocker and it also did not add the link.However not a week or two ago, I had set up no issues pfblocker on 3 other firewalls.
They are all at 2.4.3 non p1 (except for a few) and I centrally manage them, so I have cron also installed. Also on most of the firewalls I have openvpn-client-export.
I just did it on another firewall:
>>> Installing pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG... Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue... pfSense-core repository is up to date. Updating pfSense repository catalogue... pfSense repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG: 2.1.2_3 [pfSense] lighttpd: 1.4.48_1 [pfSense] lua52: 5.2.4 [pfSense] whois: 5.2.17 [pfSense] GeoIP: 1.6.11 [pfSense] grepcidr: 2.0 [pfSense] aggregate: 1.6_1 [pfSense] pecl-intl: 3.0.0_11 [pfSense] icu: 60.2_1,1 [pfSense] Number of packages to be installed: 9 The process will require 49 MiB more space. 10 MiB to be downloaded. [1/9] Fetching pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3.txz: .......... done [2/9] Fetching lighttpd-1.4.48_1.txz: .......... done [3/9] Fetching lua52-5.2.4.txz: .......... done [4/9] Fetching whois-5.2.17.txz: ........ done [5/9] Fetching GeoIP-1.6.11.txz: .......... done [6/9] Fetching grepcidr-2.0.txz: ... done [7/9] Fetching aggregate-1.6_1.txz: .. done [8/9] Fetching pecl-intl-3.0.0_11.txz: .......... done [9/9] Fetching icu-60.2_1,1.txz: .......... done Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) [1/9] Installing lua52-5.2.4... [1/9] Extracting lua52-5.2.4: ......... done [2/9] Installing icu-60.2_1,1... [2/9] Extracting icu-60.2_1,1: .......... done [3/9] Installing lighttpd-1.4.48_1... ===> Creating groups. Using existing group 'www'. ===> Creating users Using existing user 'www'. [3/9] Extracting lighttpd-1.4.48_1: .......... done [4/9] Installing whois-5.2.17... [4/9] Extracting whois-5.2.17: .......... done [5/9] Installing GeoIP-1.6.11... [5/9] Extracting GeoIP-1.6.11: .......... done [6/9] Installing grepcidr-2.0... [6/9] Extracting grepcidr-2.0: ..... done [7/9] Installing aggregate-1.6_1... [7/9] Extracting aggregate-1.6_1: .... done [8/9] Installing pecl-intl-3.0.0_11... [8/9] Extracting pecl-intl-3.0.0_11: .......... done [9/9] Installing pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3... Extracting pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3: .......... done Saving updated package information... done. Loading package configuration... done. Configuring package components... Loading package instructions... Custom commands... Executing custom_php_install_command()... Downloading MaxMind GeoIP databases. This may take a minute... GeoIP.dat... done. GeoIPv6.dat... done. GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip... done. Downloading MaxMind GeoIP databases... done. Converting MaxMind GeoIP databases for pfBlockerNG. This may take a few minutes... Country code update Start [ 06/12/18 14:24:18 ] Converting MaxMind Country databases for pfBlockerNG. Processing ISO IPv4 Continent/Country Data Processing ISO IPv6 Continent/Country Data [ 06/12/18 14:24:49 ] Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files... Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files IPv4 Africa [ 06/12/18 14:24:58 ] IPv6 Africa IPv4 Antarctica IPv6 Antarctica IPv4 Asia IPv6 Asia [ 06/12/18 14:25:02 ] IPv4 Europe Message from lua52-5.2.4: ===> NOTICE: The lua52 port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla More information about port maintainership is available at: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html#maintain-port Message from GeoIP-1.6.11: GeoIP does not ship with the actual data files. You must download them yourself! Please run: # /usr/local/bin/geoipupdate.sh >>> Cleaning up cache... done. Success
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@ronpfs said in pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling:
@meeleikon said in pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling:
pkg_edit.php
The pfblockerNG url is https://pfsense.localdomain/pfblockerng/pfblockerng_general.php
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Check your config.xml, maybe something is breaking the installation.
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I hope I sanitized this properly.... But no, nothing jumps out on the config.xml
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@meeleikon You don't have a
<installedpackages>section
But you have some pfblockerNG cron jobs!
So something is broken in your config.xml
Can you install any package ? Like Cron or System_Patches ? -
All other packages work fine. Literally just pfblocker and on a few firewalls all different configs. Only similarity is cron and openvpn.
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Those packages were probably installed before pfblockerNG.
Do you have <installedpackages> sections on your other firewalls?
Now if you try to install a package you didn't have installed, does the installation proceed ?
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I was just able to install system patches and I can see it's shortcut under system and it's page opens.
My home firewall was also having an issue, I may try a reload and install pfblocker before cron and see what that does.
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Maybe inspect Diagnostics / Backup & Restore / Config History to see what happened in the past with the config.
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Just so you know I had cron installed and am using it before I installed the pfblocker package.
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Run the following command:
grep -A30 "<menu" /conf/config.xmlAnd check to see if there is an empty <menu></menu> tag... I have seen this with another user, but am not sure if its a pfSense bug or a pfBlockerNG bug?
If there is an empty tag, you can edit /conf/config.xml and remove that empty tag. If you do that from pfSense > Edit File, that will reload the config after you press save and hopefully that fixes it.
