Unbound host_entries.conf warnings on console during boot

phil.davis · Nov 27, 2014, 4:55 AM

APU with SD card on nanoBSD
2.2-BETA (amd64)
built on Wed Nov 26 15:27:11 CST 2014
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE

During boot the console displays:

Warning: file_put_contents(/var/unbound/host_entries.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/unbound.inc on line 507

After boot is finished /var/unbound/host_entries.conf is there and has good data.
I guess this is another timing issue while the system is getting going. Again, no idea if these messages have been around for a while - have not looked too hard at console output since I enabled DNS Resolver (unbound).

Sample console output of the pfSense bit of a boot:

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 [ro,sync,noatime]...
Configuring crash dumps...
Mounting filesystems...
Setting up memory disks... done.

     ___
 ___/ f \
/ p \___/ Sense
\___/   \
    \___/

Welcome to pfSense 2.2-BETA  ...

Creating symlinks......ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib
32-bit compatibility ldconfig path: /usr/lib32
done.
External config loader 1.0 is now starting...
Launching the init system... done.
Initializing............................. done.
Starting device manager (devd)...done.
Loading configuration......done.
Updating configuration...done.
Cleaning backup cache........done.
Setting up extended sysctls...done.
Setting timezone...done.

Warning: file_put_contents(/var/unbound/host_entries.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/unbound.inc on line 507
Configuring loopback interface...done.
Starting syslog...done.
Starting Secure Shell Services...done.
Setting up polling defaults...done.
Setting up interfaces microcode...done.
Configuring loopback interface...done.
Creating wireless clone interfaces...done.
Configuring LAGG interfaces...done.
Configuring VLAN interfaces...done.
Configuring QinQ interfaces...done.
Configuring WAN interface...done.
Configuring LAN interface...done.
Configuring OPT1 interface...done.
Configuring CARP settings...done.

Warning: file_put_contents(/var/unbound/host_entries.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/unbound.inc on line 507
Syncing OpenVPN settings...done.
Configuring firewall......done.
Starting PFLOG...done.
Setting up gateway monitors...done.
Synchronizing user settings...done.
Starting webConfigurator...done.
Configuring CRON...done.
Starting DNS Resolver...
Warning: file_put_contents(/var/unbound/host_entries.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/unbound.inc on line 507
done.
Starting NTP time client...done.
Starting DHCP service...done.
Configuring firewall......done.
Generating RRD graphs...done.
Starting syslog...done.
Starting CRON... done.
pfSense (nanobsd) 2.2-BETA amd64 Wed Nov 26 15:27:11 CST 2014
Bootup complete

FreeBSD/amd64 (apu22.localdomain) (ttyu0)

*** Welcome to pfSense 2.2-BETA-nanobsd (amd64) on apu22 ***

 WAN (wan)       -> re1        -> v4/DHCP4: 10.49.80.255/22
 LAN (lan)       -> re2        -> v4: 10.52.0.1/24
 OPT1 (opt1)     -> re0        -> v4: 10.52.1.1/24
 0) Logout (SSH only)                  9) pfTop
 1) Assign Interfaces                 10) Filter Logs
 2) Set interface(s) IP address       11) Restart webConfigurator
 3) Reset webConfigurator password    12) pfSense Developer Shell
 4) Reset to factory defaults         13) Upgrade from console
 5) Reboot system                     14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)
 6) Halt system                       15) Restore recent configuration
 7) Ping host                         16) Restart PHP-FPM
 8) Shell

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phil.davis · Nov 27, 2014, 10:27 AM

It was another startup sequence thing - /var/unbound dir was not being created until late in the boot when the full unbound was configured and started.
Fixed for me by:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1350