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    Version Update Error Message in Status:Dashboard | System Information | Version

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      tweek
      last edited by

      This morning I started getting the following warnings in the System Information/Version widget of the Dashboard at the point the widget is attempting to check if the firewall is running the most current version of pfSense:

      2.0-RELEASE (i386)
      built on Tue Sep 13 17:28:43 EDT 2011
      Warning: fopen(/tmp/config.lock): failed to
      open stream: Device not configured in /etc/inc
      /util.inc on line 123 Warning: flock() expects
      parameter 1 to be resource, null given in
      /etc/inc/util.inc on line 134 Warning: fclose():
      supplied argument is not a valid stream
      resource in /etc/inc/util.inc on line 135
      Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session
      cache limiter - headers already sent (output
      started at /etc/inc/util.inc:123) in
      /etc/inc/auth.inc on line 1253 Warning: Cannot modify
      header information - headers already sent by
      (output started at /etc/inc/util.inc:123) in
      /usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc on line 47
      Warning: Cannot modify header information -
      headers already sent by (output started at
      /etc/inc/util.inc:123) in /usr/local
      /www/guiconfig.inc on line 48 Warning:
      Cannot modify header information - headers
      already sent by (output started at /etc/inc
      /util.inc:123) in /usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc
      on line 49 Warning: Cannot modify header
      information - headers already sent by (output
      started at /etc/inc/util.inc:123) in /usr/local
      /www/guiconfig.inc on line 50 Warning:
      Cannot modify header information - headers
      already sent by (output started at /etc/inc
      /util.inc:123) in /usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc
      on line 51 Warning: fopen(/tmp
      /pfSense_version): failed to open stream: No
      space left on device in /etc/inc/pfsense-
      utils.inc on line 1450
      
      Unable to check for updates.
      

      Can anyone clue me in as to what is happening here?  I'm not sure what's up. I ran fsck in single user mode and it says the drive is fine and I've used df -h to confirm I have plenty of free space available.

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        tweek
        last edited by

        An update…I rebooted the firewall, then brought up a different browser (Internet Explorer 8.0), navigated to the dashboard...and the System Information widget works properly:

        2.0-RELEASE (i386)
        built on Tue Sep 13 17:28:43 EDT 2011

        You are on the latest version.

        I then cleared out my Firefox cache and did a page reload. Problem solved.  Not sure why Firefox was caching the text after a full page refresh, but it was.  Grrr….

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          dhatz
          last edited by

          I just observed the same issue, also with Firefox. Clearing the cache solved it.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            Some browsers can be pretty bad about caching those things. The initial error indicated your /tmp slice was full. If it was on NanoBSD that's not terribly hard to do since it's a RAM disk.

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