So I have a watchguard X700 with PfSense that is insanely picky about loosing power. I clicked halt system inside of the WebConfig. Apparently It had not halted properly. Now it wont give me internet. It gets to where it should be loading the user interface inside of the command terminal thing (console), and then it says some weird crap. This is what happens:
Starting NTP time client...done.
Starting DHCP service...done.
Starting DHCPv6 service...done.
Configuring firewall......done.
Generating RRD graphs...done.
Starting UPnP service... done.
Starting syslog...done.
Starting CRON... done.
Starting /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lcdd.sh...done.
pfSense (nanobsd) 2.3.2-RELEASE i386 Tue Jul 19 13:09:39 CDT 2016
Bootup complete
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
(pfSense.localdomain) (ttyu0)
It keeps repeating that message. How do I make it go away? It takes like 30 minutes for me to get it out of a rack and dissasemble it, and I don't want to. Please help
@Dexter_Kane
Maybe try to re-assign the ttyu0 interface. Looks like its just repeating the name and interface name, so if you reset the interface assignment hopefully that would eliminate the bug. The number to assign interface's is 1 just fyi :3
I can't get to the 1. Thats the issue. I can get into the WebGui and thats it. No console or anything. I can view the console but it won't let me type. I don't even get the options to press 1 or anything
Wait so you can get to the web control panel? Just re-assign the interface under the Interfaces tab then. Unless I am mistaken I think you should be able to do so, maybe?
That's not an interface name, that's the terminal name.
Can you ssh in?
I can connect a serial cable to it and view the terminal but thats it. I can't type or anything
If you can get to the webui then you should be able to access the terminal via ssh too.
DO I just need to enable ssh or what?
It's under system > advanced enable secure shell.
What do you need to do in the terminal that you can't do in the webui?
Like it literally won't let my internet work. Im typing this right now because im plugged directly into the line in from my ISP, and the only way to fix the problem is by reinstalling pfsense which takes about an hour
I haven't used pfsense on an embedded system so I really don't know what the issue is, are all your settings still in the webui? or is it just forgetting everything whenever you reboot? You shouldn't have to reinstall to fix it but I don't know.
Everything is in the WebUI. It just won't work. I tried switching partions (It keeps a backup in case of corruption), and same issue
how do you enter the SSH? Like I know how to enable it but how to you access it?
If you're on linux just open the terminal and type ssh admin@pfsense (where admin is your pfsense user name and pfsense is the ip address of pfsense). If you're on windows then get putty and use that to connect to it.
But getting to the terminal won't help you if you can't also solve the problem from the webui as there really isn't anything you can do in the terminal that you can't in the webui unless you can't access the webui.
In that case then its the SSH that is having the issues. Thats where I pulled that text from