spontaneous reboots after 24.11 upgrade

chudak

This thread is a spin-off from:
https://forum.netgate.com/post/1198410

I am seeing pfS router spontaneous reboots after 24.11 upgrade (never had this issue before)

Just FYI and also looking for users with similar problems to help troubleshoot.

TIA

Gertjan

@chudak
Can you add more details ?

Is your device an x86, x64, or amd, or arm ?
Mention also the NIC device driver, like 'igc', or 'em', or 'ix', and 're'.

Example : if you use a x64, as I do, then we both use an exact, bit for bit identical copy of pfSense- which will exclude 'the software' as a possible issue.
This means also that only our local "settings" differ.

Also : what (pfSense) packages are you using ?

chudak

@Gertjan said in spontaneous reboots after 24.11 upgrade:

@chudak
Can you add more details ?

Is your device an x86, x64, or amd, or arm ?
Mention also the NIC device driver, like 'igc', or 'em', or 'ix', and 're'.

Example : if you use a x64, as I do, then we both use an exact, bit for bit identical copy of pfSense- which will exclude 'the software' as a possible issue.
This means also that only our local "settings" differ.

Also : what (pfSense) packages are you using ?

My device say - (amd64)

Interfaces igb0-igb3

pfSense Plus

All details in the thread ^ and bug logged

stephenw10

Did you manually edit the MDS Mitigation value? Because VERW is invalid. Might be a clue to something odd happening.

chudak

@stephenw10 said in spontaneous reboots after 24.11 upgrade:

Did you manually edit the MDS Mitigation value? Because VERW is invalid. Might be a clue to something odd happening.

AFAIK no

Where is it see? I will change it

stephenw10

It's set in Sys > Adv > Misc: MDS mode.

stephenw10

Ah, OK VERW is a valid setting there. But disabled is the default. Try setting that.

chudak

@stephenw10 said in spontaneous reboots after 24.11 upgrade:

Ah, OK VERW is a valid setting there. But disabled is the default. Try setting that.

I have this:

stephenw10

Right so try setting it disabled. I doubt it will make a difference but it's a non-default setting so worth trying.

chudak

My reboot issue on 24.11 has NOT been resolved!

So 24.11 is unusable to me :(

Netgat TAC support guys suggested it's an h/w issue and offered to wipe out my drive and try to install it clean. I tried uninstalling a bunch of packaging and it did not help.

I am hesitant to wipe out my drive as I will lose my boot env snapshots.

Just posting here for posterity.