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    • W
      whinis
      last edited by

      I have no idea why it happens but I will often wake up to see that pfsense has registered several hundred crashes and sometimes even reloaded a backup config overnight. The common crash will be

      [02-May-2025 05:20:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(1154): file_notice('phperror', 'PHP ERROR: Type...', 'PHP errors')
#2 [internal function]: pfSense_clear_globals()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135

      or

      [02-May-2025 05:20:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(95): file_notice('config.xml', 'No config.xml f...', 'pfSenseConfigur...', '')
#2 /etc/inc/config.gui.inc(53): parse_config()
#3 /etc/inc/auth.inc(34): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#4 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(36): require_once('/etc/inc/auth.i...')
#5 /etc/inc/filter.inc(30): require_once('/etc/inc/openvp...')
#6 /etc/inc/ipsec.inc(25): require_once('/etc/inc/filter...')
#7 /etc/inc/gwlb.inc(27): require_once('/etc/inc/ipsec....')
#8 /etc/inc/functions.inc(35): require_once('/etc/inc/gwlb.i...')
#9 /etc/inc/notices.inc(26): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
#10 /etc/inc/config.inc(37): require_once('/etc/inc/notice...')
#11 /usr/local/www/xmlrpc.php(32): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#12 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135

      I have tried updating, reinstalling, moving machines and yet this keeps happening. Is there a way to debug further whats going on?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Those errors are actually showing it cannot open the file to write out the notice.

        So check the filesystem for errors and make sure it's not full or close to full.

        https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/filesystem-check.html

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          whinis @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10
          Thanks stephenw

          So as far as full/close it should have plenty of breathing room
          pfSense/ROOT/default 8.8G 984M 7.8G 11% /

          As for file system check I need to wait until those in my house are not using the internet to check, however it seems odd that this happens shortly after fresh installs.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Do you have RAM disks enabled? Those could fill separately to root.

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              whinis @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10
              Not that I am aware of, where would I check that ?
              here is the full df -h

              Filesystem                            Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
pfSense/ROOT/default                  8.8G    984M    7.8G    11%    /
devfs                                 1.0K      0B    1.0K     0%    /dev
pfSense/tmp                           7.8G    436K    7.8G     0%    /tmp
pfSense/var                           7.8G    460K    7.8G     0%    /var
pfSense/home                          7.8G    176K    7.8G     0%    /home
pfSense/var/tmp                       7.8G    104K    7.8G     0%    /var/tmp
pfSense/var/log                       7.8G    4.6M    7.8G     0%    /var/log
pfSense/var/cache                     7.8G     96K    7.8G     0%    /var/cache
pfSense/var/db                        7.8G    4.0M    7.8G     0%    /var/db
pfSense/ROOT/default/cf               7.8G    5.2M    7.8G     0%    /cf
pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg    8.2G    345M    7.8G     4%    /var/cache/pkg
pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg       7.8G    4.9M    7.8G     0%    /var/db/pkg
tmpfs                                 4.0M    272K    3.7M     7%    /var/run
devfs                                 1.0K      0B    1.0K     0%    /var/dhcpd/dev
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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by stephenw10

                It's a setting in System > Advanced > Misc. You would see /tmp and/or /var mounted as tmpfs:

                [25.03-BETA][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: mount -p
pfSense2/ROOT/default-2_20250221111341 /			zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
devfs			/dev			devfs	rw		0 0
/dev/gpt/efiboot0	/boot/efi		msdosfs	rw		2 2
pfSense2/home		/home			zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
pfSense2		/pfSense2		zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
tmpfs			/tmp			tmpfs	rw		0 0
tmpfs			/var			tmpfs	rw		0 0
pfSense2/ROOT/default-2_20250221111341/cf /cf			zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
pfSense2/ROOT/default-2_20250221111341/var_cache_pkg /var/cache/pkg		zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
pfSense2/ROOT/default-2_20250221111341/var_db_pkg /var/db/pkg		zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
devfs			/var/dhcpd/dev		devfs	rw		0 0

                Your filesystem looks fine there.

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                • W
                  whinis @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  Ya, In System-> Advanced -> Misc Ram discs is unchecked.

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                  • W
                    whinis @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10
                    So I had a chance to do this but was unsuccessful for many reasons
                    The GUI reboot method only has Normal and Reroot but not file system check as mentioned in the article

                    Similarly attempting to reboot into file system check from console only gives me reroot and reboot, if I enter F anyways I go back to the main menu

                    I finally attempted single user mode but whenever I ran fsck -fy / I got an error about pfSense2/ROOT/default-2_20250221111341 not existing.

                    Any other test?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Because those are for UFS intals and you are running ZFS. Sorry I should have been clearer there.

                      You just run zpool scrub pfSense to check that in ZFS. Then run zpool status to see the result.

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                        whinis @stephenw10
                        last edited by 

                          pool: pfSense
 state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
        The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
        the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
        the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
  scan: scrub in progress since Fri May  2 20:36:28 2025
        1.32G / 1.32G scanned, 1.24G / 1.32G issued at 212M/s
        0B repaired, 94.06% done, 00:00:00 to go
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        pfSense     ONLINE       0     0     0
          da0p4     ONLINE       0     0     0

                        Everything looks good to me and I have had 3 more of those crashes today appearntly

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Hmm, unlikely that then.

                          Does SMART show the drive as OK?

                          And to confirm you've tried a clean re-install?

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                            whinis @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            So this particular instance is on a VM so no real smart information. The VM host has no reported smart errors or other VMs with issues. Once this started about a year ago, and I think I posted here then and didn't get any real replies, I also tried installing on similar raw hardware and had the same issue. I have also clean installed twice which seems to suggest to me some config issue that transfers.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Is there anything logged immediately before that?

                              You actually saw the same identical errors when running bare metal?

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                                whinis @stephenw10
                                last edited by

                                I did see the exact same error with this config on bare metal.
                                Here is the full php error log for the latest crashes it seems

                                Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

amd64
14.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT amd64 1400094 #1 RELENG_2_7_2-n255948-8d2b56da39c: Wed Dec  6 20:45:47 UTC 2023     root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_7_2-main/obj/amd64/StdASW5b/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_7_2-main/sources/F

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[02-May-2025 19:45:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(95): file_notice('config.xml', 'No config.xml f...', 'pfSenseConfigur...', '')
#2 /etc/inc/config.gui.inc(53): parse_config()
#3 /etc/inc/auth.inc(34): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#4 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(36): require_once('/etc/inc/auth.i...')
#5 /etc/inc/filter.inc(30): require_once('/etc/inc/openvp...')
#6 /etc/inc/ipsec.inc(25): require_once('/etc/inc/filter...')
#7 /etc/inc/gwlb.inc(27): require_once('/etc/inc/ipsec....')
#8 /etc/inc/functions.inc(35): require_once('/etc/inc/gwlb.i...')
#9 /etc/inc/notices.inc(26): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
#10 /etc/inc/config.inc(37): require_once('/etc/inc/notice...')
#11 /usr/local/www/xmlrpc.php(32): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#12 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135
[02-May-2025 19:45:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(1154): file_notice('phperror', 'PHP ERROR: Type...', 'PHP errors')
#2 [internal function]: pfSense_clear_globals()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135
[02-May-2025 21:10:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(95): file_notice('config.xml', 'No config.xml f...', 'pfSenseConfigur...', '')
#2 /etc/inc/config.gui.inc(53): parse_config()
#3 /etc/inc/auth.inc(34): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#4 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(36): require_once('/etc/inc/auth.i...')
#5 /etc/inc/filter.inc(30): require_once('/etc/inc/openvp...')
#6 /etc/inc/ipsec.inc(25): require_once('/etc/inc/filter...')
#7 /etc/inc/gwlb.inc(27): require_once('/etc/inc/ipsec....')
#8 /etc/inc/functions.inc(35): require_once('/etc/inc/gwlb.i...')
#9 /etc/inc/notices.inc(26): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
#10 /etc/inc/config.inc(37): require_once('/etc/inc/notice...')
#11 /usr/local/www/xmlrpc.php(32): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#12 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135
[02-May-2025 21:10:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(1154): file_notice('phperror', 'PHP ERROR: Type...', 'PHP errors')
#2 [internal function]: pfSense_clear_globals()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135
[03-May-2025 04:03:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(95): file_notice('config.xml', 'No config.xml f...', 'pfSenseConfigur...', '')
#2 /etc/inc/config.gui.inc(53): parse_config()
#3 /etc/inc/auth.inc(34): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#4 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(36): require_once('/etc/inc/auth.i...')
#5 /etc/inc/filter.inc(30): require_once('/etc/inc/openvp...')
#6 /etc/inc/ipsec.inc(25): require_once('/etc/inc/filter...')
#7 /etc/inc/gwlb.inc(27): require_once('/etc/inc/ipsec....')
#8 /etc/inc/functions.inc(35): require_once('/etc/inc/gwlb.i...')
#9 /etc/inc/notices.inc(26): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
#10 /etc/inc/config.inc(37): require_once('/etc/inc/notice...')
#11 /usr/local/www/xmlrpc.php(32): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
#12 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135
[03-May-2025 04:03:00 US/Eastern] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
Stack trace:
#0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
#1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(1154): file_notice('phperror', 'PHP ERROR: Type...', 'PHP errors')
#2 [internal function]: pfSense_clear_globals()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /etc/inc/notices.inc on line 135



No FreeBSD crash data found.
			```
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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Is there anything in the system log just before that though? Maybe something common to all the crashes? For some reason there it's unable to open the filesystem which is triggering those php errors but they are a symptom of some other issue.

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                                    whinis @stephenw10
                                    last edited by

                                    Nothing that jumps out. From the system log there is only one pattern I see

                                     /getstats.php: No config.xml found, attempting last known config restore.
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: /getstats.php: PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /etc/inc/notices.inc, Line: 135, Message: Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: Stack trace:
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #1 /etc/inc/config.lib.inc(95): file_notice('config.xml', 'No config.xml f...', 'pfSenseConfigur...', '')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #2 /etc/inc/config.gui.inc(53): parse_config()
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #3 /etc/inc/auth.inc(34): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #4 /etc/inc/openvpn.inc(36): require_once('/etc/inc/auth.i...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #5 /etc/inc/filter.inc(30): require_once('/etc/inc/openvp...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #6 /etc/inc/ipsec.inc(25): require_once('/etc/inc/filter...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #7 /etc/inc/gwlb.inc(27): require_once('/etc/inc/ipsec....')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #8 /etc/inc/functions.inc(35): require_once('/etc/inc/gwlb.i...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #9 /etc/inc/notices.inc(26): require_once('/etc/inc/functi...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #10 /etc/inc/config.inc(37): require_once('/etc/inc/notice...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #11 /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php(27): require_once('/etc/inc/config...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #12 /usr/local/www/getstats.php(38): include_once('/usr/local/www/...')
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]: #13 {main}
May  2 13:00:00 pfsense php-fpm[68498]:   thrown

                                    Some thing attempts to load config.xml, its not found and then the stack trace.

                                    May  2 16:18:00 pfsense php-fpm[29876]: /xmlrpc.php: No config.xml found, attempting last known config restore.
May  2 16:18:00 pfsense php-fpm[29876]: /xmlrpc.php: PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /etc/inc/notices.inc, Line: 135, Message: Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
May  2 16:18:00 pfsense php-fpm[29876]: Stack trace:
May  2 16:18:00 pfsense php-fpm[29876]: #0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')

                                    May  2 19:45:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: /xmlrpc.php: No config.xml found, attempting last known config restore.
May  2 19:45:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: /xmlrpc.php: PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /etc/inc/notices.inc, Line: 135, Message: Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
May  2 19:45:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: Stack trace:

                                    Here is one with several hours and no obvious error

                                    May  3 00:47:22 pfsense kernel: arp: 192.168.0.64 moved from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on bridge0
May  3 01:47:52 pfsense kernel: arp: 192.168.0.64 moved from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on bridge0
May  3 01:54:00 pfsense sshguard[91998]: Exiting on signal.
May  3 01:54:00 pfsense sshguard[50666]: Now monitoring attacks.
May  3 02:15:00 pfsense sshguard[50666]: Exiting on signal.
May  3 02:15:00 pfsense sshguard[79301]: Now monitoring attacks.
May  3 02:38:00 pfsense sshguard[79301]: Exiting on signal.
May  3 02:38:00 pfsense sshguard[4925]: Now monitoring attacks.
May  3 02:48:22 pfsense kernel: arp: 192.168.0.64 moved from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on bridge0
May  3 02:59:00 pfsense sshguard[4925]: Exiting on signal.
May  3 02:59:00 pfsense sshguard[45638]: Now monitoring attacks.
May  3 03:01:00 pfsense php-cgi[52259]: rc.periodic: New alert found: The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring:
May  3 03:01:00 pfsense php-cgi[52259]: Certificate: webConfigurator default (62294113a9989) (62294113a9989): Expiring soon, in 21 days
May  3 03:03:00 pfsense sshguard[45638]: Exiting on signal.
May  3 03:03:00 pfsense sshguard[54381]: Now monitoring attacks.
May  3 03:48:53 pfsense kernel: arp: 192.168.0.64 moved from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on bridge0
May  3 04:03:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: /xmlrpc.php: No config.xml found, attempting last known config restore.
May  3 04:03:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: /xmlrpc.php: PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /etc/inc/notices.inc, Line: 135, Message: Uncaught ValueError: Path cannot be empty in /etc/inc/notices.inc:135
May  3 04:03:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: Stack trace:
May  3 04:03:00 pfsense php-fpm[53488]: #0 /etc/inc/notices.inc(135): fopen('', 'w')
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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Hmm, that's very odd. What hypervisor are you using?

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                                        whinis @stephenw10
                                        last edited by

                                        Proxmox

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                                        • GPz1100G
                                          GPz1100 @stephenw10
                                          last edited by

                                          @stephenw10 If some part of the config (config.xml) was causing this issue. How would one even begin to troubleshoot that?

                                          Restore portions of it to a new install until crash is triggered or is there a better way?

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Nothing should ever result in the config file being inaccessible. It looks like some filesystem or drive issue though because in addition to not being able to open the config file the PHP error is being unable to open the notices file to post an alert for it. 🤔

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