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English Forums => 24.7, 24.10 Series => Topic started by: DoubleSpeed on May 15, 2025, 04:45:55 PM

Title: Router stopped and now will not restart?
Post by: DoubleSpeed on May 15, 2025, 04:45:55 PM
Randomly, 'out of the blue', my opnsense router stopped working and now it keeps restarting itself it seems like it is going through a recovery process, it gets to the login prompt, then after around 30 seconds or so I see a large volume of text scrolling up the screen and it restarts again however this cycle repeats again and again?

Should I wipe the device and reinstall, and if so, if I put on a clean install of version 25 i.e. upgrade from v24, can I restore my settings into v25 to save me the time needed to reconfigure everything from scratch?

Thanks in advance
Title: Re: Router stopped and now will not restart?
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on May 15, 2025, 08:12:34 PM
Use e.g. a mobile phone to take a movie if that wall of text, then post stills here.

So we might have a chance to spot what is going on.
Title: Re: Router stopped and now will not restart?
Post by: franco on May 16, 2025, 09:25:05 AM
If it's not the disk/file system that's causing the crash it's a network device or cable. Try unplugging those temporarily one by one to see if that helps.


Cheers,
Franco