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    • BBcan177B
      BBcan177 Moderator
      last edited by BBcan177

      @okijames said in PfBlockerNG-devel 2.1.2:

      @netgate-james Did changing wal to delete fix the issue for you?

      If you have already changed "wal" to "delete" and are still experiencing those issues, can you try the following:

      Delete the sqlite dbs and run a Force Reload - All to rebuild them.

      rm /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl.sqlite*
rm /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl_cache.sqlite*
rm /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl_levent.sqlite*

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

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        Okijames @A Former User
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        I have 4GB RAM so increasing /var RAMDISK to see what happens.

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          Okijames @Okijames
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          Holding strong and working great at 26% of 250GB on /var.

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            bbrendon @bbrendon
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            @bbrendon said in PfBlockerNG-devel 2.1.2:

            Any idea when this new version is going to be a "non-devel" version?

            I ask because 2.1 has some really annoying bugs. I'm trying to decide how long I should hold out or just install the devel version.

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              jacotec @bbrendon
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              @bbrendon said in PfBlockerNG-devel 2.1.2:

              I ask because 2.1 has some really annoying bugs. I'm trying to decide how long I should hold out or just install the devel Version

              Same here, I went for the devel 2 weeks ago and I'm happy so far.
              Take care to switch the update branch to "unstable" first and grab the devel from there, then you can switch the update branch back to stable (no need to go to unstable with pfSense itself).

              Uninstall the 2.1 first, your settings will be preserved. I made a snapshot of my pfSense VM first so I felt really safe ;-)

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                4ROMANY
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                I've been having similar issues with this error:
                /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc: New alert found: PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc, Line: 3958, Message: Call to a member function bindValue() on boolean.

                Been happening for some time - not sure when it started - but I'm currently running 2.4.4-Dev. I made the change that was suggested - changing "wals" to "delete" - so I'll try to report back in a few days. When this PHP issue occurred CPU load for the PHP process would be very high - to the point you could not log in even via serial console. Most of the time you could log in but could not do anything - even reboot seems to hang.

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                  4ROMANY @4ROMANY
                  last edited by

                  @4romany

                  So been about a week now and changing "journal_mode = delete" seems to have fixed my issue.

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                  • BBcan177B
                    BBcan177 Moderator @4ROMANY
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                    @4romany

                    Thanks for the feedback. I still can figure out why the "wal" setting is fine for most users, but not others....

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                      Okijames
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                      Just a follow up from last month.

                      Still working fine with stock "wal" setting after I increased /var RAMDISK from 60MB to 250MB. FWIW /var is currently showing about 75MB used so I am assuming the "filesystem full" issue would have continued to trigger the aforementioned PfBlocker crashes.

                      Guessing that "delete" consumes less /var space?

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                      • BBcan177B
                        BBcan177 Moderator @Okijames
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                        @okijames said in PfBlockerNG-devel 2.1.2:

                        Just a follow up from last month.
                        Still working fine with stock "wal" setting after I increased /var RAMDISK from 60MB to 250MB. FWIW /var is currently showing about 75MB used so I am assuming the "filesystem full" issue would have continued to trigger the aforementioned PfBlocker crashes.
                        Guessing that "delete" consumes less /var space?

                        These SQL db's are tiny and shouldn't take much space:

                        ls -lah /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl*.*

                        Would be great if others chimed in on their pfSense version/Hardware/etc...

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

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

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                          Okijames
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                          You're right the dbs are tiny. Other files in the referenced dir really add some bulk. I'm probably overdoing it with the number of feeds. :) See du -ch ouput below.

                          For reference, running 2.4.3 on APU2 with 4GB RAM and 250GB MSATA drive. Default /var was 60MB and encountered the crashes noted above coincident with /var full messages. Expanded /var to 250MB, presently running at 75MB used, and having no further crashes.

                          ls -lah /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl*.*
                          -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8.0K Aug 2 21:16 /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl.sqlite
                          -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8.0K Aug 2 21:13 /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl_cache.sqlite
                          -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12K Aug 2 21:16 /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl_levent.sqlite

                          du -ch /var/db/pfblockerng/
                          4.0K /var/db/pfblockerng/match
                          4.0K /var/db/pfblockerng/ET
                          348K /var/db/pfblockerng/original
                          4.0K /var/db/pfblockerng/native
                          348K /var/db/pfblockerng/deny
                          4.0K /var/db/pfblockerng/permit
                          6.5M /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl
                          9.6M /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsblorig
                          6.2M /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsblalias
                          24M /var/db/pfblockerng/
                          24M total

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                            4ROMANY @BBcan177
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                            @bbcan177

                            2.4.4-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
                            built on Fri Jul 27 07:50:35 EDT 2018
                            FreeBSD 11.2-RELEAS

                            Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3215U @ 1.70GHz
                            2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
                            AES-NI CPU Crypto: No

                            I started having the PHP error issue when up upgraded to DEV - some weeks back. At the same time I redid the way I had PFBLOCKERNG set up (also upgraded that to pfBlockerNG-devel). So far with the "delete" set I've been stable since July 26th...

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                              alverman
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                              Good morning, me too keeps going out of sync. As read above there may be duplicate entries but I can't find them in the log.
                              Could you help me to see my log?
                              Thanks, Alberto

                              my log at this link link text

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