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    PF was wedged/busy and has been reset - never fixed?

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    • H Offline
      Heiler
      last edited by

      pf_busy

      PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-20 04:21:32
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-20 10:50:54
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-20 13:37:07
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-20 21:34:10
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-21 11:24:18
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-21 14:36:29
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-22 12:56:18
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-23 12:45:40
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-26 10:02:00
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-26 10:06:49
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-26 11:42:20
          PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-09-26 11:42:36

      Version 	2.3.1-RELEASE-p5 (amd64)
      built on Thu Jun 16 12:53:15 CDT 2016 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p3
      
      CPU Type 	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30GHz, 4 CPUs: 4 package(s) x 1 core(s)
      Hardware crypto 	AES-CBC,AES-XTS,AES-GCM,AES-ICM
      Uptime 	65 Days 20 Hours 55 Minutes 26 Seconds
      
      State table size 	31% (77019/250000) Show states
      MBUF Usage 	53% (14180/26584)
      Load average 	0.98, 0.98, 0.92
      CPU usage 	10%
      Memory usage 	26% of 2013 MiB
      SWAP usage 	0% of 4096 MiB
      
      
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      • johnpozJ Offline
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by

        what version are you using?  When are you seeing that the issue where it was being seen on boot has been fixed.  But that seem more to error on reloading rules that have errors?

        What version of pfsense, what packages?

        this seems to point to fix being applied in 2.3.1 for boot issue.
        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=111236.0

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        • H Offline
          Heiler
          last edited by

          Packages: arping, FTP_Client_Proxy, Open-VM-Tools, openvpn-client-export and sudo

          As you can see the errors are from random times, and we have a huge uptime.. nothing to do with booting…
          It seems to happen when the firewall is most used.. (it's the gateway of a big network..)

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          • H Offline
            Heiler
            last edited by

            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-20 04:21:33
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-20 10:50:55
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-20 13:37:08
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-20 21:34:11
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-21 11:24:19
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-21 14:36:30
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-22 12:56:19
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-23 12:45:41
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-26 10:02:01
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-26 10:06:50
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-26 11:42:21
            There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-09-26 11:42:37

            It seems to happens when this "automatic" reload happens.. I wasn't changing any rules at these times

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            • M Offline
              Mr. Jingles
              last edited by

              @johnpoz:

              this seems to point to fix being applied in 2.3.1 for boot issue.
              https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=111236.0

              2.3.2.-p1 AMD64.

              Having the same on boot:

              PF was wedged/busy and has been reset

              Together with:

              There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDALTQ: Device busy

              6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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              • M Offline
                Mr. Jingles
                last edited by

                And another when I enabled a new VLAN interface:

                PF was wedged/busy and has been reset. @ 2016-11-08 18:27:07

                At least: I pressed 'save' after enabling the new VLAN, the GUI looked like it hung, and this new alert showed.

                6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                • W Offline
                  wiki345
                  last edited by

                  my pfsense is same problem:

                  pf_busy
                  
                  PF was wedged/busy and has been reset.	@ 2016-11-08 20:15:31
                  PF was wedged/busy and has been reset.	@ 2016-11-09 15:28:03
                  Filter Reload
                  
                  There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-11-08 20:15:32
                  There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: @ 2016-11-09 15:28:04
                  
                  Name	v-fw-pfsense-d01.localdomain
                  System	pfSense	
                  Version	2.3.2-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) 
                  built on Tue Sep 27 12:13:07 CDT 2016 
                  FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p9
                  Platform	pfSense
                  CPU Type	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
                  16 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 8 core(s)
                  Uptime	3 Days 03 Hours 30 Minutes 47 Seconds
                  Current date/time	
                  Thu Nov 10 12:02:17 CST 2016
                  

                  How to trace it? How to fix it?

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                  • H Offline
                    hulleyrob
                    last edited by

                    Ive been getting this randomly over the last month and thought it was caused by PFBlockerNG

                    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102470.msg667358#msg667358

                    Rob

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