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Archive => 17.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: ruebenmaster on November 15, 2017, 02:51:09 pm

Title: No installation possible - "Waiting for backend"
Post by: ruebenmaster on November 15, 2017, 02:51:09 pm

Hello people,
i'm new with administration OPNsense. I want to install it. After the DVD is booting system, i log in with installer. After that, there is a blue screen with the note: "Waiting for backend". You have only the chance to STRG+C or waiting till life is ending... :o))

Has anybody an idea, what to do to install OPNsense.

It is a hardware server with intel i3 processor, 4 Gb RAM and 500GB SATA HDD. The booting CDROM is extwernal with USB connected. There are 4 intel NICs onBoard. The connection via ssh or https is ok.

OPNsense 17.7.5-amd64
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p12
OpenSSL 1.0.2l 25 May 2017


Greetings
The ruebenmaster

Title: Re: No installation possible - "Waiting for backend"
Post by: franco on November 15, 2017, 03:10:52 pm

Hi there,

Waiting for backend means that loopback configuration failed. Does this always happen? Does your dvd live system work fine?

You could also try to run the installer from the root shell option 8:

# opnsense-installer


Cheers,
Franco

Title: Re: No installation possible - "Waiting for backend"
Post by: ruebenmaster on November 15, 2017, 03:17:35 pm

Hallo franco,
thx for reply. DVD installation works fine. Now i will try to install from shell with root.

Greetiings
Stephan

Title: Re: No installation possible - "Waiting for backend"
Post by: ruebenmaster on November 15, 2017, 03:30:06 pm

Hallo franco,
ok, i try it, without succsess. The same blue screen. F10 seems doesn't work and "Waiting for backend..." is the only message on bottom.

is there a logfile i'm able to find the failure? I'm searching in /var/log (all files) but can't find anything about installation OPNsense on HDD.

The process is running....

root@kleinstein:/var/log # ps
  PID TT  STAT    TIME COMMAND
89747 v0  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
40217 v1  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
40371 v2  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2
40623 v3  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3
40714 v4  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4
41056 v5  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5
41383 v6  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6
41387 v7  Is+  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7
 1159  0  Is   0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.initial
 3573  0  I    0:00.01 /bin/csh
72041  0  I+   0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/opnsense-installer
78859  0  I+   0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.installer
80185  0  I+   0:00.00 dfuife_curses -b /usr/local/share/dfuife_curses/hourglass.txt
22879  1  R+   0:00.00 ps
76202  1  Is   0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.initial
82858  1  S    0:00.02 /bin/csh
46626  2  Is+  0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.initial
46825  2  S+   0:00.03 /usr/sbin/tcpdump -s 256 -v -S -l -n -e -ttt -i pflog0


GHreetings
The ruebenmaster

Title: Re: No installation possible - "Waiting for backend"
Post by: franco on November 16, 2017, 01:34:35 am

What‘s your ifconfig output?