Spontaneous reboots.
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Hello,
So, I no longer have any WiFi cards or USB ethernet adapters.Now, the device just reboots several times daily.
The only correlation I can see in the logs, is a bunch of logs like the following:
sonewconn: pcb 0xfffff800424cd5b8: Listen queue overflow: 8 already in queue awaiting acceptance (1 occurrences)Sometimes it’ll say 1 occurrences, sometimes 5, sometimes 8, etc., and several “stacks” will show in the logs 1 after another.
I also am getting flooded with messages that sshguard is terminating on signal, and then starting again immediately, only to terminate again. I do have service watchdog enabled.
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@aaronouthier Have you reinstalled pfSense on your device so you are working in a clean state? If you have anything side-loaded from your WiFi attempts that is the only way to guarantee a complete removal.
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@rcoleman-netgate
After I was informed as to the nature of the previous issue, I first removed all wireless interfaces, and reconfigured to not use it. For good measure, I removed the USB to wired ethernet adapter from the mix also. I then shut the system down, and reinstalled, recovering the config file, but otherwise wiping the filesystem. I shut it down, and put it back in it’s original location (pfsense box is not normally near any monitors or tvs, so I have to temporarily move it for setup purposes). Since then, I have not attached any WiFi or USB devices. -
sonewconn errors like that are almost always a symptom of some other issue.
Do you have any new crash reports from the reboots with only the on-board NICs?
Steve
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No crash reports have been generated thus far.
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Are you able to log the console output across a reboot?
If there is anything shown it will be there. If, for example, you have an issue with the boot drive it may not be able to record a crash report.
Check the CPU temps look reasonable. Overheating is a common cause of spontaneous reboots like that.
Steve
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CPU temps stay consistently around 30-35 degrees centigrade. I’m not so familiar with centigrade. Is that hot?
Internet connectivity was lost about 19:35. After 5 minutes, when Internet was not restored, the power cord was pulled. I am trying to upload system log, but my ipad is choking on it for some reason, and I’m unable to rename it to .txt
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@aaronouthier said in Spontaneous reboots.:
Is that hot?
No, that's quite cool for the core temp on a passively cooled device.
Nothing unexpected in that dmesg output.
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@aaronouthier said in Spontaneous reboots.:
After 5 minutes, when Internet was not restored, the power cord was pulled
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try to avoid turning off power on any device with a file system, to avoid file system damage. The proper way to shut down pfSense is Diagnostics/Halt.
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that's a different problem than the spontaneous reboots...?
@aaronouthier said in Spontaneous reboots.:
centigrade
Google will do the conversion/math for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=35+celsius+to+fahrenheit
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@steveits said in Spontaneous reboots.:
@aaronouthier said in Spontaneous reboots.:
After 5 minutes, when Internet was not restored, the power cord was pulled
- try to avoid turning off power on any device with a file system, to avoid file system damage. The proper way to shut down pfSense is Diagnostics/Halt.
I am aware. I didn’t say I pulled the power. My roommate got impatient and did things his way…
- that's a different problem than the spontaneous reboots...?
Yes, I was confused initially. I had thought the system was rebooting when the power was pulled. It wasn’t until the next morning and saw the logs that I realized that wasn’t the case. Also, since it wasn’t rebooting, it means I just lost access to the system, which means ssh and web access weren’t an option. I was attempting to access by ssh when the power was pulled, and I had already determined the web UI was not accessable.
@aaronouthier said in Spontaneous reboots.:
centigrade
Google will do the conversion/math for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=35+celsius+to+fahrenheit
I know how to do the conversion. What I consider to be hot, and what a computer chip considers hot, are 2 different things. My home doesn’t quite get to 25 degrees Celsius, for example. At 35 degrees, I’d be about dead…
—Aaron
