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Weird UTM freezes randomly approximately once a day ...

Escape75

I have experienced a strange lockup on my "new" UTM box, but I checked log files and they don't reveal anything, just a bunch of weird characters ...

2023:03:16-01:32:01 escape75 /usr/sbin/cron[25494]: (root) CMD (  nice -n19 /usr/local/bin/gen_inline_reporting_data.plx)
2023:03:16-01:35:01 escape75 /usr/sbin/cron[25649]: (root) CMD (   /usr/local/bin/reporter/system-reporter.pl)
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2023:03:16-09:03:10 escape75 syslog-ng[4942]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.4.7'
2023:03:16-09:03:12 escape75 ddclient[5361]: WARNING:  cannot connect to checkip.dyndns.org:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname 'checkip.dyndns.org'
2023:03:16-09:03:24 escape75 system: System was restarted



So,- I've been running the software version of UTM (9.714) on my old unit (an XG115 r2) for a couple of years without any issues,
and recently I have migrated my saved config over to a new unit (XG115 r3) and a few hours after setting up the new unit (at night)
it froze up, and interfaces were not pingable (LAN) so I powered it down and rebooted. It's working again ...

Just wondering if there's something more I can look at to see what the issue was .. I have a hunch maybe it was DHCP related,
as my devices on the LAN were renewing the IP addresses and they were not in the table on the new unit, but it's a wild guess,
so if this doesn't happen again then maybe it's nothing to worry about.

I don't know if there would be an issue moving the config file (and license) from the old unit, but I wouldn't think so.

The new unit was installed the same way as the old unit, using the ssi-9.714-4.1.iso file and removing the /etc/asg with a software license,
and the old unit hasn't experienced any weird issues in years, and the ethernet ports and devices are setup in an identical way, nothing changed.

Just looking for thoughts and ideas ...

Stats from top:

top - 11:32:20 up 2:31, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.29, 0.25
Tasks: 163 total, 1 running, 160 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.6%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.5%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3898468k total, 3558768k used, 339700k free, 111124k buffers
Swap: 4194300k total, 112k used, 4194188k free, 1352808k cached

Zombies:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 18256 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:30 0:00 [aua.bin] <defunct>
root 18595 0.6 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:32 0:00 [confd.plx] <defunct>



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  • 0

    I think you've put in a good effort to try to get it going. What was the source of this device? If you can return it, I would. No point in wasting more time trouble shooting.

    I've bought used pc equip on ebay before. If it works great, if I can't get it going within an evening or 3, it goes back.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    Yes, it was ebay in fact.

    I have purchased a previous XG115 r2 and it's still running great, but this one has issues from the start ...

    I was just trying to figure out if I'm running into some weird bug possible with one of my LAN devices causing a crash,
    I know it would be strange but I've seen strange things, and the seller claims it was running just fine before it was replaced.

    You know, when I see stuff like this it makes me wonder if it was another bad unit or:

     XG115 Rev 3 freezing sometimes on SFOS 18.5.2 MR-2-Build380 

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Isn't that a pickle!

    If it's not the memory module, then the memory slot or memory controller.  Neither of which you can replace.

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Still, i'd be curious to the results of the prime95 test, the cpu torture and full ram. I bet one of those will crash the system.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    I will set it up to run from a bootable windows usb Slight smile

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Btw, I feel your pain in testing this.

    For the last 2 weeks been playing with *sense products.  I have att fiber which requires a special flavor of BS to work without their "required" gateway box.

    In a nutshell the service uses eapol on vlan0 to authentic and enable data flow.  This works great on utm (after installing wpa_supplicant), but *sense is freebsd based which has broken vlan0 implementations.  To get it working requires using something called netgraph to handle the vlan0 traffic at a kernel level.

    Anyway, there's multiple ways of implementing this, but some are claiming success without netgraph - this is welcome as fewer system resources are needed when transferring to internet at line speeds.

    Bottom line, I fully understand your frustration!

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    Yes, that also sounds like a painful situation, but at least you're sharing the pain with all other pfsense users Slight smile

    What's wrong with using their "required" box and somehow turning it into a bridged unit?

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    T's gateway box doesn't offer true bridge mode. Instead, it's an almost 1:1 NAT of sorts (certain ports are blocked) with the public ip getting passed to one device on the lan side. There's 4 lan ports on the rear. The gateway still offers connectivity to the other 3 ethernet on a 192.168.1.x/24 subnet.

    The theory is T is better able to mine user data with spyware in the gateway than doing it further upstream at the central office or NOC layer. Not to mention there's a much small state table (8K or 16K entries).

    Finally, the box is drawing 10-15 watts for doing absolutely nothing.

    Here's a good write up about T's auth process.  I am using the "supplicant" method.

    github.com/.../opnatt

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    I see what you mean, it only supports IP Passthrough ...

    That reminds me of the time I had Shaw Cable and their modem didn't expose bridge mode,
    although it supported it technically, so one had to go into developer tools in a web browser
    and adjusting the code once logged in to the modem to re-enable the disabled functionality.

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Both the Small and Large FFT tests have passes, each running 2.5 hours ...

    The stick of RAM that was in the 'faulty' unit is also running fine in my r2 unit, I think I can pretty much exclude CPU, Memory and SSD ...

    Next I guess I'll test the interfaces ... 

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Does a known good stick work in the faulty unit? 

    Passes memtests and all?

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  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    I say yes... here's why.

    I swapped the sticks of ram between the units, and the r2 (old) unit has been working fine, if the stick was bad it wouldn't.

    The tests I've done with memtest86+ (note the plus) failed on the r3 unit, with BOTH sticks of ram, but the same test
    also crashes my desktop (i5-11400F) quite bad, actually reboots it and then locks it up, and that PC is 100% stable!
    So I say memtest86+ with multicore enabled (F2 option) from the Ultimate Boot CD is NOT stable for testing.

    Now, I cannot test my r2 unit with that same memtest86+ because it only has a VGA output and I don't have a VGA display,
    and the included serial out does not correctly mirror the output from memtest86+ and many other such utilities.

    Also note that the r3 unit, passes both memtest86 single core as well as multicore ram tests, with both sticks,
    so that leads me to believe we can disregard my previous message about having found a memory test error ...

    The r3 unit also passed all prime95 tests, and has been running Windows from USB flawlessly,
    it looks 100% stable to me, except when running UTM or SFOS, which again doesn't make sense.

    I will focus on ethernet ports next ...

    I would be surprised if you can pass this test on your hardware:
    https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
    Pick memory, memtest86+ and hit F2 to force multicore Slight smile
    I think that particular version is not stable with multicore.

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Wow.,.. <mind blown>!!!

    I always get the memtest binary from the memtest+ website itself.

    Don't think i've used that ultimateboot cd recently.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    Yeah I know!

    You have 2 seconds to hit that F2 otherwise it does a single core test ...

    I don't understand why pfSense and all other operating systems run just fine, except UTM/SFOS!

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Next stop, iperf testing?

    Reload pf or opn, install iperf3, then connect a cable between the various interfaces and test away.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    I finished testing with iperf on pfSense each interface between the XG and my PC,- no issues.

    Each port has been transferring at 944Mbps for exactly an hour each while being pinged,
    and first three ports did about 5ms loaded, while the fourth was at about 20ms loaded.

    Looks all normal, I believe the 4th port uses a shared interrupt so it's not as high priority.


    So the question remains, why does pfSense pass all tests, as well as other OS's but not UTM/SFOS ?!

    Could this relate to some specific BIOS settings or version, I don't have any other XG115 r3 units to compare ...

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    Why not test between the different ports themselves?  That would put more strain on the system and be more representative of firewall operation - 2 nics moving data between each other.

    Meaning connect port 1 to port 2, port 2 to port 3, port 3 to port 4, and then variations there of (1-3, 1-4, etc..)

    If it all still works, then im out of ideas. Something in sg/xg is causing it to fault.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    You might be right, but then again quite often when it was freezing there was no traffic (or very little) on the LAN.
    And I would think pfSense should do the same, so it's looking like there's some sort of software type issue almost.

    In fact my next test was going to be remove pfSense and load UTM and just let it sit with no ports hooked up,
    and I suspect it might freeze as well, but I guess time will tell.

    In the meantime it would be nice to get my hands on another XG115 r3, but do I risk it Slight smile

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    That would be quite the snafu if pfsense/opnsense works fine on the hardware, but their own utm/xg craps out. There has to be something the sophos software is setting that's tripping the crash/panic.

    Curious to see results of your next test.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    Yes I'll be testing it further and I'll let you know ...

    For now, I've changed some BIOS settings and re-installed UTM and I have a 21 hour uptime so far ...

    *I would think 'reset to defaults' would be the correct settings for that unit though*

  • 0 in reply to Escape75

    What settings did you change?

    Sure, applying defaults is a good idea for baseline. That is, apply defaults, save, reboot, go back into bios, make changes as needed.

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