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    PF restarted, error rule DIOCADDALTQ

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    • I Offline
      iXô
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I am a totally new to pfsense, and I have just finished to setup my personnal firewall using pfsense.

      After a few days I have received 2 mails notifications, each composed of 2 mails :

      First tels me this :

      PF was wedged/busy and has been reset.

      The second tels me this :

      There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDALTQ: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]:

      The empty data after the ':' in second mail may be a clue about the problem.

      What may cause this and how can I solve this ?

      Thanks.

      Best regards.

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      • J Offline
        jayntguru
        last edited by

        I'm getting the same thing after the latest 2.2 release version. Are you running pfblocker? I think it's related to that.

        -Jay

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