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22.7 Legacy Series / php error from rc.bootup for /usr/sbin/ngctl

« on: September 03, 2022, 12:17:32 am »

Hi,

I'm using PPPoE with a tagged VLAN (201) on my WAN interface, to connect to CenturyLink fiber. Everything seems to be working okay, but I notice this error on bootup:

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2022-09-02T14:42:27-07:00 Error php /usr/local/etc/rc.bootup: ROUTING: entering configure using defaults
2022-09-02T14:42:25-07:00 Error php /usr/local/etc/rc.bootup: The command '/usr/sbin/ngctl msg 'igb0_vlan201': setautosrc 1' returned exit code '71', the output was 'ngctl: send msg: No such file or directory'
Searching the forums, I see several references to this error, but mostly only from longer log dumps that aren't discussing this error in particular. I can find no clear explanation for the error. Anyone have any thoughts?

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21.1 Legacy Series / system.log filling up with empty configctl messages

« on: July 29, 2021, 11:12:00 pm »

I'm on OPNsense 21.1.9_1-amd64. I noticed a sudden increase in disk space usage on the dashboard. I found an anomoly in the system.log from two days ago, which seemed to resolve itself without a reboot before I noticed (uptime is 20 days currently).

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root@opn:/var/log/system # ls -lF
total 52649044
-rw-------  1 root  wheel         1368 Jul 23 21:36 system_20210723.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel         1368 Jul 24 21:37 system_20210724.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel         1364 Jul 25 21:38 system_20210725.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel         1362 Jul 26 21:39 system_20210726.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  46888471248 Jul 27 23:28 system_20210727.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel   7010838657 Jul 28 21:41 system_20210728.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel         1536 Jul 29 13:56 system_20210729.log

Whoa, yeah... that's quite an increase! Let's take a closer look:

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# tail system_20210727.log
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:
Jul 27 23:28:27 opn.localdomain configctl[40506]: event @ 1627449996.77 msg:

... but how many of those lines are there?

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# grep configctl system_20210727.log | wc -l
601134222

Wow, over 600 million. And I have no idea what they're about, particularly with the "msg" field being empty.

Any thoughts? How would I go about debugging this further?