PFBlockerNG 2.1.1_2 Reinstall Errors

rajl

So I am having even more issues with the latest version of PBBlockerNG. None of the other solutions people have posted for solving the memory issues with the latest version of PFBlockerNG have actually solved my problems. So I decided to see what would happen if I uninstalled and reinstalled PFBlockerNG. This was a "bad idea." Although I can uninstall and reinstall PFBlocker using the web interface, the actual user interface elements for PFBlockerNG never appear under the firewall settings menu! Instead, I immediately upon install/reinstall am presented with a memory error the option to send a crash report to the PFSense devs (which I do). However, no changes to the UI to allow me to configure PFBlockerNG appear.

RonpfS

@rajl:

So I am having even more issues with the latest version of PBBlockerNG. None of the other solutions people have posted for solving the memory issues with the latest version of PFBlockerNG have actually solved my problems. So I decided to see what would happen if I uninstalled and reinstalled PFBlockerNG. This was a "bad idea." Although I can uninstall and reinstall PFBlocker using the web interface, the actual user interface elements for PFBlockerNG never appear under the firewall settings menu! Instead, I immediately upon install/reinstall am presented with a memory error the option to send a crash report to the PFSense devs (which I do). However, no changes to the UI to allow me to configure PFBlockerNG appear.

If you are on a i386 system, the MaxMind database may fail during installation.
Can you post the installation log of pfblockerNG to see what's wrong?
Did you look at the system log ? Log for pfblockerNG are in /var/log/pfblockerng

Can you access the pfblocker tab with https://YOURFW.FQDN/pkg_edit.php?xml=pfblockerng.xml ?

There is also an issue with package installation, see the sticky in package forum

rajl

@RonpfS:

If you are on a i386 system, the MaxMind database may fail during installation.

This should not be an issue as I am running 64-bit.

@RonpfS:

Can you post the installation log of pfblockerNG to see what's wrong?

Yep. Below is the output from an installation/reinstallation of pfblocker. As you can see, there are no errors.


>>> Upgrading 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.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
	pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_2 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1
[1/1] Reinstalling pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_2...
[1/1] Extracting pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_2: .......... done
Removing pfBlockerNG components...
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Loading package instructions...
Removing pfBlockerNG... All customizations/data will be retained... done.
Saving updated package information...
overwrite!
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_install_command()...
MaxMind GeoIP databases previously downloaded.
Adding pfBlockerNG Widget to the Dashboard... done.
Remove any existing and create link for DNSBL lighttpd executable... done.
Creating DNSBL web server start-up script... done.
Creating DNSBL web server config ... done.
Starting DNSBL Service... done.
Upgrading Adv. Inbound firewall rule settings ... no changes required ... done.
Custom commands completed ... done.
Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...1 table created.
1/1 addresses added.
pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed
>>> Cleaning up cache... done.
Success

However, immediately after installation/reinstallation, I get the following crash notification:


					Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

amd64
10.3-RELEASE-p5
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0 7307492(RELENG_2_3_2): Tue Jul 19 13:29:35 CDT 2016     root@ce23-amd64-builder:/builder/pfsense-232/tmp/obj/builder/pfsense-232/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 104857600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc on line 3867
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP Stack trace:
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP   1\. {main}() /etc/rc.start_packages:0
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP   2\. sync_package() /etc/rc.start_packages:90
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP   3\. eval() /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc:631
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP   4\. sync_package_pfblockerng() /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(631) : eval()'d code:3
[08-Aug-2016 20:17:32 America/New_York] PHP   5\. file() /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc:3867

@RonpfS:

Did you look at the system log ? Log for pfblockerNG are in /var/log/pfblockerng

I did, but didn't see anything.

@RonpfS:

Can you access the pfblocker tab with https://YOURFW.FQDN/pkg_edit.php?xml=pfblockerng.xml

Nope. This page does not exist after I reinstalled pfblocker.

rajl

No idea if it matters, but I got this problem when doing the following upgrade path:

2.0.17 (installed flawlessly) -> 2.1.1_2 (upgrade was fine, but had out of memory errors) -> reinstall 2.1.1_2 (which is causing current issues described in this thread).

yuljk

Same issue here uninstalling and re-installing the latest version.

How is a clean install performed? - I'm guessing there are remnants of the previous installation still present, hence the immediate crash report.

I've noticed another post referencing an uninstallation script someone wrote, is this still required to get a 'clean' install for pfBlockerng?

RonpfS

@yuljk:

Same issue here uninstalling and re-installing the latest version.

How is a clean install performed? - I'm guessing there are remnants of the previous installation still present, hence the immediate crash report.

I've noticed another post referencing an uninstallation script someone wrote, is this still required to get a 'clean' install for pfBlockerng?

Can you provide more information on you system like architecture, memory, etc?
What did the installation log tells you? System log?

RonpfS

To install or re-install pfBlockerNG 2.1.1_2

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102470.msg647400#msg647400