Getting 504 Gateway Time-Out after login from WebGUI

XenGi 0

Hi,
I got a fresh install of pfsense. When I successfully login to the webgui instead of the dashboard I get a 504 Time Out. When I switch to a browser where I don't have a session yet I get the login page really quickly. As soon as I login there I get the 504 too.

It seems that only a few pages arer affected by this. For example when I go directly to /interfaces_assign.php the page loads within seconds. Going back to the dashboard results in a 504 again.

I found this old issue which describes a similar bug but this has no solution: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8987

In my setup I got a ix0 interface which I called UPLINK. This is a transfer network and also the default gateway. I got another VLAN interface opt1 which I called WAN which will hold my public IP addresses in the future. At the moment this has no IP set and is not functioning. The interface is enabled though.

I tried renaming the interfaces to find out if pfsense somehow cares about some magic names but that didn't change anything.
I also disabled the WAN interface and that also didn't change the behaviour.

In the logs I see this when a time out happens:

Feb 26 11:57:29	nginx		2021/02/26 11:57:29 [error] 62355#100690: *14996 upstream timed out (60: Operation timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: ::1, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php-fpm.socket", host: "mypfsense:443", referrer: "https://mypfsense:443/interfaces.php?if=opt8"

I switched from using the DNS resolver (unbound?) to the DNS Forwarder (dnsmasq?), but that didn't make any difference.
I have another pfsense at my home which is using only the DNS Forwarder and it works fine. I never had this issue. But the setup also uses another router behind it for the WAN interface. So there is 192.168.178/0/24 from the actual DSL modem and the pfsense is just a node in that network delivering traffic to the rest of the house.

Still these two have the same pfsense version 2.4.5p1 and I would expect them to work the same. The working pfsense runs on a APU2C4. The one with issues runs on a Dell R620.

I tried restarting the Webgui and also php-fpm but it didn't help.

I'm quiet familiar with Linux but struggle a bit to find the equivalent commands on FreeBSD. So I'm not sure how to debug this further.

While fiddling around I restarted the php-fpm while I was waiting for another time out. What I got was this error:

2021/02/26 12:44:35 [crit] 52395#100571: *2 connect() to unix:/var/run/php-fpm.socket failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: ::1, server: , request: "POST /getstats.php HTTP/2.0", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php-fpm.socket:", host: "localhost:8443", referrer: "https://localhost:8443/"

And the dashboard showed up. Completely loaded. Non-functional but loaded. So it seems to be a specific widget.

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