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    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
    last edited by Feb 8, 2011, 12:01 AM

    No, Ermal is going to be the one having to look into the actual panics.

    I was just trying to figure out why some people aren't getting the proper crash dumps like they should.

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      fasteddy
      last edited by Feb 8, 2011, 11:08 PM

      I've changed to the SMP kernel and updated to the latest snapshots as of 15 minutes ago, and my machine seems to be automatically rebooting and generating proper crash reports now.  Thanks jimp!

      Unfortunately, I am still able to crash my system at will the same way I have been from the get go - by accessing the web gui through the VPN.  I sent the (now useful!) crash report via the web gui, is there anything I can/should do beyond that at this point?

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by Feb 8, 2011, 11:21 PM

        When the next snapshot comes out later this evening/tonight, update to it and try to reproduce it again.

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          LostInIgnorance
          last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 5:18 AM

          JimP, who exactly were you talking to? or was it just a general reference to everyone?

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            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 5:35 AM

            just in general for anyone still getting crashes… hopefully it's more stable.

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              LostInIgnorance
              last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 5:37 AM

              I won't get to testing that box (p4 dell gonna kick it in the parking lot) till tomorrow morning, so I'll have to get back to you on the test.

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                cmb
                last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 9:02 AM

                The snapshot with the fixes Jim mentioned is now up, I've upgraded all my systems to it and no issues. Granted I wasn't seeing any panics previously either, so those who can replicate issues, please test.

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                  fasteddy
                  last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 1:34 PM

                  So far so good using this morning's build - tinkered around with the web gui for awhile with no crashes (couldn't even log in before…), did the same with a shell connection (which always crashed after a few minutes before) and am 1/4 of the way through transferring a 1.25GB file through the vpn to the pfSense box via SCP with no crashes so far.  (It has always been communication directly with the remote pfSense box through the VPN that triggered crashes for me).  Fingers crossed...

                  I am curious though - and I'll (dis)qualify this by saying that I am not a developer, nor do I pretend to fully understand much of the goings on in the git repository, but - I don't see anything in the list of commits since the last snapshot I tried that I would have expected to have an impact on this particular issue.  Any idea as to what was causing the panics in the first place?

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                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 1:41 PM

                    @fasteddy:

                    I am curious though - and I'll (dis)qualify this by saying that I am not a developer, nor do I pretend to fully understand much of the goings on in the git repository, but - I don't see anything in the list of commits since the last snapshot I tried that I would have expected to have an impact on this particular issue.  Any idea as to what was causing the panics in the first place?

                    Look at the commits to the tools repo, not just the pfSense code repo. The tools repo is where things like kernel patches and builder changes happen.

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                      fasteddy
                      last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 2:02 PM

                      Thanks, jimp, I had no idea!  Adds a whole new level of excitement to the daily snapshots, doesn't it…

                      FYI, I have at this point - in addition to trying everything else that previously caused an instant panic - transferred a couple of gigs through the VPN to what I would have called my 'sick' pfsense box, and everything seems to be working and happy.

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                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 2:06 PM

                        @fasteddy:

                        Thanks, jimp, I had no idea!  Adds a whole new level of excitement to the daily snapshots, doesn't it…

                        Yeah, those are the main two. There are also others that are used but they change much less often, if at all (like the freesbie2 stuff).

                        @fasteddy:

                        FYI, I have at this point - in addition to trying everything else that previously caused an instant panic - transferred a couple of gigs through the VPN to what I would have called my 'sick' pfsense box, and everything seems to be working and happy.

                        Sounds very promising. Keep trying to kill it, see what happens. :-)

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                          pwnell
                          last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 9:02 PM

                          Crashed again, after about 3 days I think…

                          2.0-BETA5 (i386)
                          built on Sun Feb 6 23:54:00 EST 2011

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                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 9:16 PM

                            @pwnell:

                            Crashed again, after about 3 days I think…

                            2.0-BETA5 (i386)
                            built on Sun Feb 6 23:54:00 EST 2011

                            Update to the 9th or later, it should be stable from that point on.

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                              pwnell
                              last edited by Feb 9, 2011, 9:18 PM

                              Yep did that just now, will keep an eye on it.  Thanks.

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                                pwnell
                                last edited by Feb 10, 2011, 12:10 AM

                                Ran for 2 hours then everything just hung.  No panic, nothing in /var/crash and no crash message after reboot.  Keyboard / everything was frozen, no traffic was allowed through the device.

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                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by Feb 10, 2011, 12:14 AM

                                  Any idea what you were doing at the time? FTP? PPTP?

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                                    pwnell
                                    last edited by Feb 10, 2011, 12:33 AM

                                    I had a VPN connection open (PPTP), but not really much data transfer.  Not much more - I was not doing anything other than the IMAP/SMTP/SSH/HTTP traffic.

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                                      pwnell
                                      last edited by Feb 10, 2011, 12:57 AM

                                      1 hour, crashed:

                                      2.0-BETA5 (i386)
                                      built on Wed Feb 9 01:34:47 EST 2011

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                                        FisherKing
                                        last edited by Feb 10, 2011, 2:07 AM

                                        Just reporting my experiences -
                                        Running 2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Wed Feb 9 00:54:34 EST 2011 on both machines. (Did a clean install)
                                        uptime = 7+ hours

                                        Testing CARP & failover, FTP traffic, OpenVPN client/server setup.

                                        No crashes so far, and they used to be pretty easy to produce.

                                        This is only a simple test environment, so it doesn't get regular traffic, only a single client at a time for now.

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                                          geewhz01
                                          last edited by Feb 10, 2011, 2:50 AM

                                          I'm getting a panic in today's snapshot, 2.0-BETA5 (amd64)
                                          built on Wed Feb 9 19:39:50 EST 2011 .  This was caused I believe by syncing to slave.  I was in the process of setting up a new interface on the master and configuring a vpn to it.

                                          Andy

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