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    pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling

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    • M
      MeeleIkon @RonpfS
      last edited by

      @ronpfs said in pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling:

      @meeleikon said in pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling:

      pkg_edit.php

      The pfblockerNG url is https://pfsense.localdomain/pfblockerng/pfblockerng_general.php

      0_1528828915728_404pfblockng.PNG

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      • RonpfSR
        RonpfS
        last edited by

        Check your config.xml, maybe something is breaking the installation.

        2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
        Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
        Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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          MeeleIkon
          last edited by

          I hope I sanitized this properly.... But no, nothing jumps out on the config.xml

          0_1528834778798_config-foo.xml

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          • RonpfSR
            RonpfS @MeeleIkon
            last edited by RonpfS

            @meeleikon You don't have a

            <installedpackages>
            

            section 🤔

            But you have some pfblockerNG cron jobs!
            So something is broken in your config.xml
            Can you install any package ? Like Cron or System_Patches ?

            2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
            Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
            Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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              MeeleIkon
              last edited by MeeleIkon

              All other packages work fine. Literally just pfblocker and on a few firewalls all different configs. Only similarity is cron and openvpn.

              0_1528922513568_installedpackages-config-foo.xml

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              • RonpfSR
                RonpfS
                last edited by RonpfS

                Those packages were probably installed before pfblockerNG.

                Do you have <installedpackages> sections on your other firewalls?

                Now if you try to install a package you didn't have installed, does the installation proceed ?

                2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                  MeeleIkon
                  last edited by

                  I was just able to install system patches and I can see it's shortcut under system and it's page opens.

                  My home firewall was also having an issue, I may try a reload and install pfblocker before cron and see what that does.

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                  • RonpfSR
                    RonpfS
                    last edited by

                    Maybe inspect Diagnostics / Backup & Restore / Config History to see what happened in the past with the config.

                    2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                    Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                    Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Just so you know I had cron installed and am using it before I installed the pfblocker package.

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                      • BBcan177B
                        BBcan177 Moderator
                        last edited by BBcan177

                        Run the following command:

                        grep -A30 "<menu" /conf/config.xml
                        

                        And check to see if there is an empty <menu></menu> tag... I have seen this with another user, but am not sure if its a pfSense bug or a pfBlockerNG bug?

                        If there is an empty tag, you can edit /conf/config.xml and remove that empty tag. If you do that from pfSense > Edit File, that will reload the config after you press save and hopefully that fixes it.

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