PfSense Lost All settings, unable to restore configuration
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I have about 20 IPSEC tunnels configured on a pfSense. I was modifying one of the tunnels and hit the apply changes button. When I did so the pfSense crashed and rebooted.
I checked the console and both interfaces appeared to be unconfigured with no IPs.
At the top of the screen was a messages that said: Warning: Illegal string offset 'protocol' in /etc/inc/xmlparse.inc on line 77
Fatal error: Cannot create reference to/from string offsets nor overloaded objects in /etc/inc/xmlparse.inc on line 77
I was unable to get the router reconfigured so in order to get things back online I stood up a new router in it's place.
Anyone have any pointers on what could have caused this? And more importantly how to prevent it from happening in the future?
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You could check the general System log and IPSec log to see if anything relevant is there. Did you have a config.xml backup that you couldn't restore? If not, you might want to consider creating at least one backup (Diagnostics - Backup/Restore) for future recovery.
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@KOM:
You could check the general System log and IPSec log to see if anything relevant is there. Did you have a config.xml backup that you couldn't restore? If not, you might want to consider creating at least one backup (Diagnostics - Backup/Restore) for future recovery.
I am unable to access the web gui since it doesn't have an IP. Can I access the system log and ipsec logs from the console?
I did have a backup, but I was concerned that something in the config had caused it to crash and didn't want to have this problem again. Recreating the settings took a couple hours, but if it saves me another unfortunately timed crash it will be worth it. (And it was a good audit of rules, settings, etc.)
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/var/log contains all of the available logs, including system and ipsec. I'm just guessing with the ipsec log, since it may only have connection-related details and not anything about the plumbing.
