Freeradius 2 doesn't start after upgrade to PFS 2.2

FlashEngineer

@sherbeeny:

I got it fixed when I went to "Packages" tab and reinstalled Freeradius2 by pressing on its [pkg] button.

I run PFS 2.2.6 and had the same problem and reinstalling the packadge solved the problem.

This works as well, unsure why…

Also the previous post on the fix, it works but then you can never stop it, since the PID file is there when it's running. Not sure how to 100% prevent this issue.

LucaTo

Same problem here on 2.3 release, service doesn't start in 90% of the cases on reboot….

As suggested by bbaumer just edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd.sh by this way to solve the situation :) :

#!/bin/sh
# This file was automatically generated
# by the pfSense service handler.

SERVICENAME="radiusd"
LOCKFILE="/tmp/${SERVICENAME}_start.lock"
PIDFILE="/var/run/${SERVICENAME}.pid"

rc_start() {

        # prevent this part of script from running in parallel
        if ( set -o noclobber; echo "$$" > "$LOCKFILE") 2> /dev/null; then
                # make sure lock file is removed even if script is terminated
                trap 'rm -f "$LOCKFILE"; exit $?' INT TERM EXIT

                /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd onestart

                # try to wait until the service starts
                if [ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
                        echo "$SERVICENAME.sh: PID file was not found"

                        for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
                                if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
                                        echo "$SERVICENAME.sh: Service started PID: `cat $PIDFILE`"
                                        break
                                else
                                        echo "$SERVICENAME.sh: Waiting 0.5 seconds"
                                        sleep 0.5
                                fi
                        done
                else
                        echo "$SERVICENAME.sh: Service running PID: `cat $PIDFILE`"
                fi

                rm -f "$LOCKFILE"
                trap - INT TERM EXIT
        else
                echo "$SERVICENAME.sh: Cannot continue at this moment, this script is already trying to start service PID: $(cat $LOCKFILE)"
        fi
}

rc_stop() {
        # Don't stop if service start is in progress
        # pfSctl -c 'service reload packages' call start and stop multiple times

        if [ ! -f "$LOCKFILE" -a -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
            /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd onestop
        fi
}

case $1 in
        start)
                rc_start
                ;;
        stop)
                rc_stop
                ;;
        restart)
                rc_stop
                rc_start
                ;;
esac

doktornotor

All madness hopefully fixed here:
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/267 (merged in 1.7.5)
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/268 (pending)

FuzzzyWuzzzy

@bbaumer I submitted a bug report regarding this issue. Unfortunately, it got rejected because he was unable to recreate the issue in his testing environment. Check this for more details:

[https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11013](link url)

Almost 5 years later, this issue still exists under certain conditions and they refuse to add the one conditional statement that would fix it for those it affects even though it wouldn't cause any problems for the rest of their users.

FuzzzyWuzzzy

UPDATE 11/02/2020:

This issue has finally been resolved in FreeRADIUS package version 0.15.7_20

Thank you Renato!