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    Captive portal still doesn't start automatically on system startup

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      wallabybob
      last edited by

      I have just installed

      2.1-BETA0 (i386)
      built on Fri Jul 27 15:20:57 EDT 2012
      FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3

      Captive portal was enabled in the configuration file but wasn't invoked when I attempted Internet access after startup. I went to the Captive Portal configuration web page and clicked on Save without making any changes and next attempt to access internet site invoked Captive Portal login page.

      I looked in /var/log/portalauth.log and the only entries for today were

      Jul 30 07:35:49 pfsense2 logportalauth[48941]: Restarting captive portal().
      Jul 30 07:36:34 pfsense2 logportalauth[7684]: LOGIN: zzz, 00:a1:b0:64:3b:83, 192.168.51.217

      which suggests to me logportalauth wasn't started on system startup.

      The last few entries in /var/log/system.log are

      Jul 30 07:15:30 pfsense2 login: login on ttyv0 as root
      Jul 30 07:15:32 pfsense2 check_reload_status: Reloading filter
      Jul 30 07:35:49 pfsense2 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
      Jul 30 07:35:51 pfsense2 minicron: (/etc/rc.prunecaptiveportal) terminated by signal 15 (Terminated: 15)
      Jul 30 07:35:56 pfsense2 check_reload_status: Reloading filter

      and the only occurrence of the word portal in the system log seems to correspond to my clicking Save on the portal configuration page:```
      $ clog /var/log/system.log | grep portal
      Jul 30 07:35:51 pfsense2 minicron: (/etc/rc.prunecaptiveportal) terminated by signal 15 (Terminated: 15)
      $

      
      Anything I should look for to help debug this problem?
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        wallabybob
        last edited by

        In Captive Portal I have a single zone without a name. Could it be having an identity crisis?  :)

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          Alan87i
          last edited by

          I have 1 zone with a name and have the same problem. There is a bug report , I don't think it's been worked on yet.

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            wallabybob
            last edited by

            I have a recollection reading in the last month or so, an uncontradicted report that captive portal was now working.

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              Alan87i
              last edited by

              https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2529#change-9474

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                eri--
                last edited by

                Try with snapshots of tomorrow.

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                  Alan87i
                  last edited by

                  2.1-BETA0 (i386)
                  built on Wed Aug 1 16:50:44 EDT 2012
                  FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3

                  Still has the same problem.

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                    eri--
                    last edited by

                    @Alan87i:

                    2.1-BETA0 (i386)
                    built on Wed Aug 1 16:50:44 EDT 2012
                    FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3

                    Still has the same problem.

                    You have to be more helpful than that.
                    Give me output of:
                    kldstat
                    ipfw_context -l
                    ipfw show
                    ifconfig
                    ps -ax | grep light

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                      Alan87i
                      last edited by

                      @ermal:

                      @Alan87i:

                      2.1-BETA0 (i386)
                      built on Wed Aug 1 16:50:44 EDT 2012
                      FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3

                      Still has the same problem.

                      You have to be more helpful than that.
                      Give me output of:
                      kldstat
                      ipfw_context -l
                      ipfw show
                      ifconfig
                      ps -ax | grep light

                      
                      [2.1-BETA0][admin@pfsense.testing.com]/root(1): kldstat
                      Id Refs Address    Size     Name
                       1   10 0xc0400000 13a4b10  kernel
                       2    2 0xc2e3f000 12000    ipfw.ko
                       3    1 0xc2edf000 e000     dummynet.ko
                      
                      
                      
                      [2.1-BETA0][admin@pfsense.testing.com]/root(2): ipfw_context -l
                      Currently defined contextes and their members:
                      
                      
                      
                      [2.1-BETA0][admin@pfsense.testing.com]/root(3): ipfw show
                      ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET): No such file or directory
                      [2.1-BETA0][admin@pfsense.testing.com]/root(4): ifconfig
                      rl0: flags=108843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast,ipfw_filter>metric 0 mtu 1500
                              options=3808 <vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic>ether 00:40:f4:84:09:44
                              inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
                              inet6 fe80::1:1%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                              nd6 options=1 <performnud>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                              status: active
                      rl1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                              options=3808 <vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic>ether 00:e0:7d:f8:ed:fa
                              inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fef8:edfa%rl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                              inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
                              nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                              status: active
                      plip0: flags=8810 <pointopoint,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                      lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                              options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                              inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                              inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
                              nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1460
                              syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 syncok: 1
                      enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
                      pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33200
                      ipfw0: flags=8801 <up,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 65536</up,simplex,multicast></promisc></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum></up,loopback,running,multicast></pointopoint,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud></vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast,ipfw_filter> 
                      
                      
                      [2.1-BETA0][admin@pfsense.testing.com]/root(5): ps -ax | grep light
                      31826  ??  S      0:00.08 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-webConfig
                      53082  ??  S      0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-main-Capt
                      32871   0  R+     0:00.00 grep light
                      
                      

                      I got all this from shell with putty on a windows box.
                      And ran them all after a reboot.

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                        tzlwin
                        last edited by

                        I still have the same problem. Whenever I restart the Pfsense, captive portal doesn't work well unless manually restart it. :-[

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                          freebee
                          last edited by

                          Bug #2529 here still occur. Can somebody report in redmine page the feedback ?.

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                            freebee
                            last edited by

                            When i create a new captive portal, when select options like bandwith and vouchers, i got this message:

                            Aug 13 23:02:38 isg php[9759]: /services_captiveportal_zones.php: New alert found: pfSense is restoring the configuration /cf/conf/backup/config-1344909264.xml
                            Aug 13 23:02:40 isg php: : XML error: Undeclared entity error at line 1111 in /conf/config.xml
                            Aug 13 23:02:41 isg php: : pfSense is restoring the configuration /cf/conf/backup/config-1344909264.xml
                            Aug 13 23:02:41 isg php: : New alert found: pfSense is restoring the configuration /cf/conf/backup/config-1344909264.xml

                            Alix board, image from 10 august.

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              Make sure you aren't putting a space in the zone name, or any other special characters.

                              It would help to see exactly what you're putting in on that page before hitting save that leads to those errors.

                              What it's basically saying is that something you entered caused the config to fail the XML parsing test and it was considered invalid.

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                                freebee
                                last edited by

                                I will get the box and by serial see the configuration. The name was successful created (lowercase, without space and no description).
                                Selected enable captive portal interfaces -> wireless.
                                disable concurrent logins.
                                bandwidth control -> down 2048 up 128.
                                Enable username/vouchers.
                                Click in save.

                                The webconfigurator very slowly wait the response and when this response come, give me the message of restoring config.xml backup.

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                                  freebee
                                  last edited by

                                  Found the problem.
                                  The problem was with the language chosen: Portuguese.
                                  When you click in Save, he change the line:
                                  <radiusvendor>default</radiusvendor>
                                  to
                                  <radiusvendor>padrão</radiusvendor>
                                  What is a invalid value (this value must continue in english, not portuguese).

                                  File analysed: /cf/conf/config.xml.bad

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    You may want to post in the Portuguese forum about that, since I don't think anyone on this side has actually worked on the translation code.

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                                      lifeform08
                                      last edited by

                                      any update?

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                                        phil.davis
                                        last edited by

                                        This looked like a fun and easy thing to fix. I was surprised at how easy it is to use the Portuguese interface! There were a couple of places in services_captiveportal.php that got carried away translating conf-file keywords into Portuguese and then attempting to stuff the Portuguese into the config as a keyword.
                                        Pull request 230 should fix it.

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                                          jits
                                          last edited by

                                          I've just completed the most recent update for Mon Sep 24th 2012.

                                          I have captive portal active on VLAN assigned interface for Wifi users. They can use internet until I click "save" in Captive Portal. There is no Captive Portal page being presented to unauthorized users.

                                          Jits

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                                            phil.davis
                                            last edited by

                                            Mon Sep 24 16:42:11 EDT 2012 certainly has the changes to services_captiveportal.php - it sounds like you at least got the config to save OK.
                                            You can check in config.xml and look for entries like:

                                            <radiusvendor>default</radiusvendor>
                                            
                                            <radmac_format>default</radmac_format>
                                            

                                            These should have values like "default" in English.
                                            If that happened OK, then need to work out the next thing that is happening. You could try switching to English then setup CP and make sure the config works in English. Then do it again in Portuguese. If a known-good set of options in English breaks it when entered in Portuguese, then go looking in config.xml again for any other setting keywords that have got translated when they should be left as keywords.

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