PfSense keeps losing settings after reboot (run off 8gb USB stick)
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I saw an older post on the same subject from a while ago, but there was never a resolution.
We are running the current release, 2.0.3 and have the image on a USB which we boot from. On some occasions on a clean shutdown/reboot, we have to reconfigure the unit.We lose everything, from the pfSense name, ip addresses, NAT and Firewall rules, everything.
We can't have this happen once these units are deployed.
Any help would be appreciated
Jay
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One other note, appears that the usb has 3 partitions, 2 of which are ~400mb partitions of the same size, I am wondering if the pfSense is booting up to the wrong partition that hasn't been configured. Is there a way to avoid this, should this be the reason?
Thanks
Jay
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On some occasions on a clean shutdown/reboot, we have to reconfigure the unit.
We lose everything, from the pfSense name, ip addresses, NAT and Firewall rules, everything.
PERHAPS on restart the file system is considered "dirty" and the resulting fsck "cleans up" the configuration file.
Is there anything distinctive about the occasions when a reconfigure is required? Perhaps a configuration change preceded the shutdown? Anything about the file system reported in the restart requiring the reconfiguration? Please post the output of pfSense shell command```
dmesgAre you running the "full" pfSense or the "nanoBSD" variant? -
Thanks for the response.
We seem to see that Disk is Dirty message on every reboot, that could be the issue, but it isn't consistent, I will post the output of dmesg next time it occurs, should run into it again today.
Jay
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So far, haven't been able to reproduce this, but we just got some more units in that I will be configuring next week, hopefully we can get to the root cause of this.
Jay
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I have had unreliable results running from USB also. I switched to either the full install with a hard drive or a CF card. CF card is rock solid.