Intermittently unable to login after 2.4 upgrade
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Hello,
I'm hoping someone here may have additional suggestions as to things I should try/look for to troubleshoot and resolve this problem:
Since upgrading my pfSense router to 2.4 (from 2.3.4) I've been intermittently hitting issues with my router including:
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502 Bad Gateway and 504 Gateway Timeout errors from the admin portal
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SSH logins hang indefinitely without ever letting me get to a prompt
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Random bad behavior from the router – connections failing, services in a wedged state and showing ports in use that should not be, etc
No configuration changes were made from when the upgrade was made to when this issue started occurring (within 24 hours of the upgrade, IIRC). Thinking this was related to the memory leaks noted in bsnmpd, I have tried disabling all queries to SNMP, disabling SNMP entirely, and even upgrading to the 2.4.1RC hoping to fix that. And again this morning, I found myself unable to login to the router. In an effort to gather more information, I've upped my log file sizes significantly and have enabled remote logging to another server on my network as it would be very difficult to get connected to the physical console on this machine.
Currently installed packages:
acme
mtr-nox11
openvpn-client-export
pfBlockerNG
suricataCurrently active services:
dhcrelay
dnsbl
dpinger
ipsec
miniupnpd
ntpd
radvd
sshd
suricata
syslogd
unboundRunning with an IPSec tunnel enabled for remote access, but this is used only occasionally. Other VPN services are not currently in use/enabled.
Hardware:
Qotom Q355G4 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XNWLR3J/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Core i5-5250U
8GB RAM
4x Intel NICs
30GB SSD -
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Maybe give this possible fix a try?: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg758174#msg758174
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Maybe give this possible fix a try?: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=137103.msg758174#msg758174
For some reason that thread didn't come up when I last searched this. I've applied the patch and I'll report back if I don't see the problem again for ~48 hours since it's yet to go that long.
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Going on three days and hasn't crashed on me since patching (and I noted that there was an official update to pfBlockerNG that included this). I think we can say it was the cause of the issue.
Thanks!