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    PFSense 2.4.4 not responding at console and web interface CRITICAL BUG! HELP!

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by stephenw10

      And in another thread you're asking about 2.4.3... 😕

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      • john_wickJ
        john_wick @stephenw10
        last edited by john_wick

        Hi Stephen I have this errors on both vesions in KVM (Proxmox) hypervisor(
        updated version recently). I tryed disable NTP severs change NTP pools reinstall PFsense, cpu units change, Change timecounters without result

        In virtualized OpNsense have similar kernel panic with filtellog flood but connection fall down (in PF works DHCP,NAT, etc.

        Anytime when I needed acces to cli or web UI I have to suspend and resume VM. I think is temporary solution add to cronjob console comad â„–11(restart web configurator) with 30-60sec interval.
        If this does not work to me IPfire firewall my reserve plan

        Similar situations
        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/130467/solved-pfsense-2-4-3-halts-with-calcru-messages-in-console/5

        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/104013/pfsense-not-responding-at-console/7

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          So which pfSense version are you testing?

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          • john_wickJ
            john_wick
            last edited by john_wick

            Version of my test instalation 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 (amd64)
            Maybe need some logs or output?
            I think is problem with webconfigurator how to add correct cron job comand like: 1 * * * * root etc/rc.restart_webgui ? This can work?

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Ok, so how are you seeing that logs if you have no access to the GUI or console? Does it not fail immediately?

              What are the results of: sysctl kern.timecounter

              Steve

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              • john_wickJ
                john_wick
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                [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.tsc_shift: 1
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc_adjust: 0
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) TSC-low(800) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET
kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation: 5
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 7474
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 12623953
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 100000000
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 3428655973
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 800
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 1199709078
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 4238456201
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by stephenw10

                  You might try switching to one of the other timecounters:
                  sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast

                  You can add that in System Tunables if it fixes it.

                  Steve

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                  • john_wickJ
                    john_wick @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 When i suspend and resume Pfsense VM in Proxmox cli and web gui unfrozen + (have some kernel messages calcru) but it works and trafig hase go even webui/cli have not response. I conect fro my nat on 192.168.1.1
                    I have low trafic and load resources up to 30% max
                    Maybe need to try set maximum performance in bios? Irony in the situation that linux work more stable over bsd system in my test lab :(

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      You mean shutdown and restart or actually suspend?

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                      • john_wickJ
                        john_wick @stephenw10
                        last edited by john_wick

                        @stephenw10 Without reboot only suspend like pause/resume

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Hmm, not sure I've ever tried that. Does it only show that error when you resume it?

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                          • john_wickJ
                            john_wick @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 said in PFSense 2.4.4 not responding at console and web interface CRITICAL BUG! HELP!:

                            You might try switching to one of the other timecounters:
                            sysctl kern.timecounter=ACPI-fast

                            You can add that in System Tunables if it fixes it.

                            Steve

                            alt timecounter

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Sorry I missed a bit there, the sysctl should be kern.timecounter.hardware

                              Did you try it at the command line first?

                              Steve

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                              • john_wickJ
                                john_wick @stephenw10
                                last edited by

                                @stephenw10
                                Mostly yes. According to my observations, sometimes the calcru error enters the log not immediately, but at intervals after a pause. Basically, the console simply stops responding or responding via ssh and the web UI stops responding sometimes with a 502 bad gateway. Now I have installed sysctl kern.timecounter = ACPI-fast will reboot and look at the reaction. If I fail, I will try to improve performance and frequency.

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                                • john_wickJ
                                  john_wick @stephenw10
                                  last edited by john_wick

                                  @stephenw10 said in PFSense 2.4.4 not responding at console and web interface CRITICAL BUG! HELP!:

                                  Sorry I missed a bit there, the sysctl should be kern.timecounter.hardware

                                  Did you try it at the command line first?

                                  Steve

                                  Like this alt text Hase a diference with cli or with UI config edit?

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    That's correct. It will apply via the GUI like that but it's then permanent. If you test it from the CLI first and it does something unexpected you can just reboot.

                                    Steve

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                                    • john_wickJ
                                      john_wick
                                      last edited by john_wick

                                      Hi Stepen yesterday error is gone and server work stable access to cli and web UI was anytime when was small trafic but after night when trafic was zero error come back again. Need more time to watch on the actions and need to tweak to max performance or maybe I can add some cron jobs to prevent falling asleep webconfigurator or this is more fundamental timecounter problems?

                                      Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 685818 usec to 353871 usec for pid 24 (syncer)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 685818 usec to 353871 usec for pid 24 (syncer)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 17 usec to 8 usec for pid 5 (sctp_iterator)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 18 usec to 9 usec for pid 5 (sctp_iterator)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 182 usec to 93 usec for pid 15 (usb)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 164420 usec to 83927 usec for pid 4 (cam)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 5 usec to 2 usec for pid 2 (crypto)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 19805 usec to 10109 usec for pid 14 (geom)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 21765 usec to 11109 usec for pid 14 (geom)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 1094 usec to 558 usec for pid 14 (geom)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 7510 usec to 3833 usec for pid 14 (geom)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 10 usec to 5 usec for pid 13 (ng_queue)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 15 usec to 8 usec for pid 13 (ng_queue)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 33 usec to 17 usec for pid 12 (intr)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 928 usec to 474 usec for pid 12 (intr)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 949204 usec to 490190 usec for pid 12 (intr)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 1790 usec to 1195 usec for pid 12 (intr)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 10823 usec to 5572 usec for pid 1 (init)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 20126323 usec to 10274286 usec for pid 1 (init)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 10823 usec to 5572 usec for pid 1 (init)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 10 usec to 5 usec for pid 10 (audit)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 42471156539 usec to 21679250280 usec for pid 0 (kernel)


                                      Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 7 usec to 3 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 13 usec to 6 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
Mar 25 15:08:27	kernel		calcru: runtime went backwards from 9 usec to 4 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        kern.timecounter.hardware is still set to ACPI-fast?

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                                        • john_wickJ
                                          john_wick @stephenw10
                                          last edited by john_wick

                                          @stephenw10 Work stable last hours

                                          [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.tsc_shift: 1
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc_adjust: 0
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) TSC-low(800) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast
kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation: 5
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 23746
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 12995060
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 100000000
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 2672335151
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 800
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 1199698926
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2441661706
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            You could try the TSC-low timecounter also if you#re still seeing issues. That is lower quality though.

                                            Steve

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