OpenVPN GUI trashed

0tt0

Hi,

When jumping in on the OpenVPN section to check something out I see.. nothing, but a 'plus sign'. It's blank. I have one tunnel up and apparently working. FW seem to work ok. When pressing the 'plus sign' I get the attached error message.

Any ideas?

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jimp

I would backup the config, run a firmware update (it looks like you are on 1.2.3, just re-upload a 1.2.3-release firmware update), and then see if it's fixed. It may be a corrupt file on the hdd causing that.

If you still get the error, something in your config is causing a problem, and we'd need to see a copy of the config.xml backup to tell you what happened.

0tt0

@jimp:

I would backup the config, run a firmware update (it looks like you are on 1.2.3, just re-upload a 1.2.3-release firmware update), and then see if it's fixed. It may be a corrupt file on the hdd causing that.

If you still get the error, something in your config is causing a problem, and we'd need to see a copy of the config.xml backup to tell you what happened.

I am on:

1.2.3-RELEASE
built on Sun Dec 6 23:38:21 EST 2009
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 i386

I'll see if a reboot somehow does it. I haven't touched any config lately though so I'm unsure what may have triggered this. The system disk is somewhat old though, so the only thing I could think of is perhaps write failures to file/disk perhaps causing corruption in config file? Looked at file and it clooked ok sort of, at least no apparent inorrect or illegal characters etc.

jimp

I would be more worried about a corrupt or unreadable system file than the config, but be sure you get config backups just the same.

I would suspect the disk if it's old. A firmware update may fix the corrupted files for now, but it may be on the way out.

0tt0

Hmm ok, so to be clear, you're talking about doing a manual firmware upload of the same version and over writing the config files then? Since I'm already on the latest version I can't do anything from the Auto update tab.

0tt0

@0tt0:

Hmm ok, so to be clear, you're talking about doing a manual firmware upload of the same version and over writing the config files then? Since I'm already on the latest version I can't do anything from the Auto update tab.

Well you actually did write "re-upload" above, so I guess you already answered my question.
Thanx

jimp

Yes, just do a manual update to the same version you have.

You might also want to install smartmontools and run a hard drive test (See http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26626.0.html for how to install/run a test) and see if any of the S.M.A.R.T. indicators point toward a hardware failure.