Hi, I'm a new opnsense user and I've been trying out opnsense for the last 2 days and mostly succesful, however I noticed that opnsense seems to occasionally lose various settings, for instance I made a port forward, several unbound A records (overrides), installed unbound-plus, configured ipsec, dhcpd scopes and static leases and the next day everything was gone??? grepping through /conf/backups also couldn´t find any of my configurations. I noticed this behaviour earlier as well, when I configured the webgui for https and all of the sudden it reverted back to http.
It just happened again, it almost looks like a daily occurence, since it happens at around the same time. It also seems to erase all logfiles and config backups from between april 30th (the last time I made edits in my conf that 'stuck') and the time when it reset everything. WTF????
Here from the opnsense-shell trying to restore a previous config, nothing to restore between apr 30 - 5 may, as if I'm running on a ephemeral filesystem.
Enter an option: 13
1. Tue May 5 03:18:14 CEST 2020
2. Thu Apr 30 22:06:30 CEST 2020
3. Thu Apr 30 22:02:38 CEST 2020
4. Thu Apr 30 21:49:48 CEST 2020
5. Thu Apr 30 21:36:10 CEST 2020
6. Thu Apr 30 21:33:55 CEST 2020
7. Thu Apr 30 21:33:11 CEST 2020
8. Thu Apr 30 21:14:03 CEST 2020
9. Thu Apr 30 20:56:12 CEST 2020
10. Thu Apr 30 20:30:11 CEST 2020
11. Thu Apr 30 20:12:39 CEST 2020
12. Thu Apr 30 20:02:40 CEST 2020
13. Thu Apr 30 19:59:16 CEST 2020
14. Thu Apr 30 19:52:31 CEST 2020
15. Thu Apr 30 19:50:45 CEST 2020
16. Thu Apr 30 19:49:40 CEST 2020
17. Thu Apr 30 19:47:42 CEST 2020
18. Thu Apr 30 19:44:41 CEST 2020
Any ideas what is going on?
EDIT: after a reboot I also lose all settings
Tell us more about how you went on to install. Are you using a live installer image? Do you have DVD still mounted? Etc.
All settings wiped "as a service" is a rather uncommon thing and there is probably a reason for this...
Cheers,
Franco
I used the usb installer image OPNsense-20.1-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2 unpacked the img and dd it to a usb key
root@opn:~ # cat /etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/gpt/rootfs / ufs rw,noatime 1 1
root@opn:~ # mount
/dev/gpt/rootfs on / (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
devfs on /var/dhcpd/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
devfs on /var/unbound/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
root@opn:~ # camcontrol devlist
<SATAFIRM S11 SBFMBBW3> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
root@opn:~ # gpart show -l
=> 40 62533216 ada0 GPT (30G)
40 409600 1 (null) (200M)
409640 1024 2 bootfs (512K)
410664 60436136 3 rootfs (29G)
60846800 1686456 - free - (823M)
Yeah I already found https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=4763.0 but my usb key isn't even connected anymore, it also has attained *some* settings (e.g. my ca, most of my interface settings and my wifi ap settings like wpa + psk), which is what makes it so strange.