Solved: 24.7.8 rebooting every few hours

[allebone]

Also started having random reboots since last update a couple days ago. Unaure why. Havent caught antthing in the logs yet.

[allebone]

I think I found my issue in reddit:

"
Please note we had to hotfix the kernel which will not reinstall automatically if you caught the bad version. If you experience panics on 24.7.10 relating to pf(4) please reinstall from the GUI (which includes an automatic reboot) or run "opnsense-update -fk" from the shell followed by a manual reboot. The correct kernel identifies itself as "stable/24.7-n267981-8375762712f" using "uname -v".

A hotfix release was issued as 24.7.10_2:"

I checked uname -v and had the wrong kernel. After doing the above and rebooting it was then correct. Hopefully this fixes the crashes.

[muldini]

I'm running a Protectli VP4650 with coreboot and also experience(d) random reboots. I don't believe this has anything to do with OPNsense as I've seen the same with other operating systems.

Even had a replacement unit from Protectli with the same issues. By chance I figured out that the device reboots if it had been rebooted rather than shut down completely. It can be reproduced reliably.

An actual halt/shutdown and subsequent power on will leave the device running flawlessly. Current uptime is 3 months+.
Rebooting the device however will have it randomly crash/reboot without any logs/crash dumps.

No further debugging was done so far, but replacing the BIOS is still on my to-do list. Hope this helps.

Please excuse raising an old topic and self-quoting, however I received a PM that I can't respond to due to aggressive captchas (two of them?!).

1. No further steps are necessary. Installing the update, letting the system reboot and then performing a manual complete shutdown is enough.
2. I have not contacted Protectli.