SOS! Config.xml is corrupted and is 0 bytes. Could not restore a previous backup
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Hello!
I have problem after installing pfsense. I found message "Config.xml is corrupted and is 0 bytes. Could not restore a previous backup." over console and I can't used console to config network or anything else. My server is IBM System x3400. How do I fixed it? Help me please!!! Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joe
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I ran into a similar situation when I was trying to save the config file directly with the web interface based file editor.
Also got the same when I tried to replace the file manually on the file system with another one, uploaded with SFTP.
It looks like there's a process "watching" this file when it's being modified from outside, and instead accepting the modifications, it deletes it and it tries to restore something from a backup.
The problem is, that:
- if the backup doesn't contain a valid file, the result will be an empty file
- the user doesn't have a chance to override this behaviour. It may be very well that somebody wants to do this on purpose, and fighting against the system is not something pleasant to do.
