Cant edit some files in www folder using edit file

grandrivers

im on the 2.2.5 nanobsd and i have some patched php files which i apply using edit file in web gui, specifically related to miniupnp and system.php, what i noticed is, snapshots since past one month dont save the files present in the www folder. Miniupnp.inc and xml do edit just fine but if i try the same with system.php, the page keeps says saving and gets stuck and never actually saves them

looks like he said nano right from the get go

phil.davis

I have no problem using the webGUI to edit on 2.2.5 nanobsd. I am guessing it will be some issue with the CF/SD card.

xbipin

if so then why do all other files except the ones in www folder edit just fine, if i try anything in the www folder, it would simply keep saying saving for ever and would never complete.

i even tried to mount CF as rw and then do the same but still no luck

phil.davis

@xbipin:

if so then why do all other files except the ones in www folder edit just fine, if i try anything in the www folder, it would simply keep saying saving for ever and would never complete.

i even tried to mount CF as rw and then do the same but still no luck

That is a good question! Is there anything in the system log?
If you go to a command line and edit something (e.g. with "ee") and save, then it might show you some error message when saving that will help find the cause.

xbipin

i tried using ee in serial console, i tried editing a file in www folder but on saving changes keeps saying unable to create file

doktornotor

Well yeah that has nothing to do with the webGUI. It's still the same UFS shit over and over again. Reinstall to different media. Your current one is either dead or incompatible with the wonderful UFS filesystem. ::)

xbipin

what do u mean dead, it works fine, upgrades also work all good, its currently on UFS, other than saving to www folder all the other functions work perfectly fine

doktornotor

I am 300% sure your issue will go away as soon as you switch to 2.2.2 or older, predating the UFS improvements. If you want to use something newer, also 300% sure it won't work with your media.


time rc.conf_mount_rw
ee /usr/local/www/system.php (make your changes)
time rc.conf_mount_ro

Observe how wonderfully it performs. ::)

xbipin

it was saving files on 2.2.4 perfectly fine, i have another alix box with a different CF and on that too it saves in pfsense 2.2.4.

just with recent snaps of 2.2.5 it stopped saving, older snaps of 2.2.5 it was saving fine

doktornotor

Yeah OK. See hints above. Merely telling you that UFS is broken beyond repair with CF (or any "slow" media in general). Additionally, if you only see this with specific files, I'm very sure the media is faulty or filesystem broken, definitely not "working fine". Again, there are logs, or dmesg even.

xbipin

the logs etc dont mention anything of failure and i think it has to be something with the permissions on the www folder because almost any other file i tried outside it works, just all the files within the www folder exhibit this behaviour and even upgrading to a newer snap has the same issues

doktornotor

If it were the directory permissions, you wouldn't be able to edit anything there. Not just system.php. Really. Also, it's extremely easy to check the permissions.

xbipin

here is a dmesg log

$ dmesg
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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p20 #0 4c99fec(releng/10.1)-dirty: Mon Sep 21 12:06:53 CDT 2015
    root@pfs22-i386-builder:/usr/obj.RELENG_2_2.i386/usr/pfSensesrc/src.RELENG_2_2/sys/pfSense_wrap.10.i386 i386
FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
VT: running with driver "vga".
CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (498.06-MHz 586-class CPU)
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avail memory = 226222080 (215 MB)
pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd0 at kbdmux0
K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
random: <software, yarrow=""> initialized
ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20130823/tbxfroot-223)
ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
cryptosoft0: <software crypto=""> on motherboard
padlock0: No ACE support.
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vr0: Quirks: 0x2
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miibus0: <mii bus=""> on vr0
ukphy0: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface=""> PHY 1 on miibus0
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vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:13:47:84
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ukphy2: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface=""> PHY 1 on miibus2
ukphy2:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
vr2: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:13:47:86
ath0: <atheros 5413=""> mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
ath0: AR5413 mac 10.5 RF5413 phy 6.1
ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0063
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ppc0: parallel port not found.
uart0: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
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Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
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random: unblocking device.
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498060650 Hz quality 800
Root mount waiting for: usbus1 usbus0
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vr1: link state changed to DOWN
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doktornotor


$ ls -la /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  8813 Jun  1 19:41 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.inc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5778 Jun  1 19:41 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.xml

$ ls -la /usr/local/www/system.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  20278 Jul 19 22:42 /usr/local/www/system.php

$ ls -ld /usr/local/www
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  285 Sep 27 23:47 /usr/local/www

Really nothing special there. It's the same like any other file there.

Looking at "CF 1GB" in the dmesg output - are you sure you simple are not out of space???


ada0: <cf 20071116="" 1gb="">ATA-0 device
ada0: Serial Number TSS20036081218011525
ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
ada0: 991MB (2031120 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 2015C)</cf>

xbipin

i tried editing using winscp and that too fails

permissions r as below

$ ls -la /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  8862 Sep 26 11:37 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.inc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5051 Sep 26 11:35 /usr/local/pkg/miniupnpd.xml

$ ls -la /usr/local/www/system.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  20278 Sep 21 20:40 /usr/local/www/system.php

$ ls -ld /usr/local/www
drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  8704 Sep 26 11:33 /usr/local/www

xbipin

the CF is almost empty, i just use pfsense and the cron package

doktornotor

Almost empty? Pardon me, but if it shows almost empty, there's something very wrong with your FS. That space gives you rougly 450MB per each slice, which is just about enough for basic system. Could you just do a real check what's the space there? Because "almost empty" is nonsense.


$ df -h
Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/pfsense0    908M    341M    494M    41%    /

This is from a 2GB CF nanobsd install. Just 2.2.4 system itself. As you can see there, that's almost 350MB, and the 2.2.5 thing is bigger, due to python being included.

xbipin

$ df -h
Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/pfsense0    443M    248M    159M    61%    /
devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ufs/cf           49M    1.1M     44M     2%    /cf
/dev/md0              38M    572K     35M     2%    /tmp
/dev/md1              58M     13M     40M    25%    /var
devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev

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doktornotor

Well, so much for almost empty. Other than that - backup the config and re-image the card… If that doesn't work, get a new one.

xbipin

seems like other things also broken, i did the below things

got a brand new 2GB CF card and flashed the last 2.2.5 snap onto it
booted and came to the web gui
tried to restore backed up config and the page keeps going on and on
tried multiple times and even with different browsers but still wont restore the config

now the thing about broken CF card is out of the picture and secondly something as simple as restoring the config using the web GUI should atleast work right, i even tried editing the file also from edit file page and situation is still same