Re: [pfSense] 2.3 - webConfigurator Fails

[David White]

Hah! Point taken. The motherboard has 2003 as the date it goes by when it
POSTS.

The motherboard is a VT133, it has a Phoenix BIOS, and the CPU is a VIA
EZRA 800mhz. This looks accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3

It runs great, even as a VPN server! I was thinking about replacing it,
though, as I need to setup some more memory & CPU-intensive packages.

If my business has a good month, maybe I'll bit the bullet and get
something new. The joys of being self employed...

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Jim Thompson  wrote:

>
> > On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:10 PM, Chris Buechler  wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:46 PM, David White 
> wrote:
> >> I just upgraded to 2.3, and internet seems to be working fine, but the
> >> webConfigurator is failing.
> >>
> >> pfSense is running on some older x86 hardware. Checking the system.log,
> I
> >> see this entry:
> >>
> >> php-cgi: rc.bootup: The command '/usr/local/sbin/nginx -c
> >> /var/etc/nginx-webConfigurator.conf' returned exit code '1', the output
> was
> >> 'PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (CPU not supported)'
> >>
> >
> > That appears to mean your CPU's lacking CMOV support. You're the first
> > to run into that. What CPU is it? Must be really ancient to be lacking
> > CMOV support, something like a Pentium I or AMD K6. Talking CPUs from
> > the ‘90s.’
>
> And the early to mid 1990s at that.  CMOVcc came in with P6
> microarchitecture.
> First CPU to ship with it was Pentium Pro in Nov 1995.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture) <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture)>
>
> Possible that OP has a AMD CPU newer than this.
>
> Chris’ comments about being able to recover something that does support
> CMOVcc still apply.
>
>
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Re: [pfSense] 2.3 - webConfigurator Fails

[Chris Buechler]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:46 PM, David White  wrote:
> I just upgraded to 2.3, and internet seems to be working fine, but the
> webConfigurator is failing.
>
> pfSense is running on some older x86 hardware. Checking the system.log, I
> see this entry:
>
> php-cgi: rc.bootup: The command '/usr/local/sbin/nginx -c
> /var/etc/nginx-webConfigurator.conf' returned exit code '1', the output was
> 'PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (CPU not supported)'
>

That appears to mean your CPU's lacking CMOV support. You're the first
to run into that. What CPU is it? Must be really ancient to be lacking
CMOV support, something like a Pentium I or AMD K6. Talking CPUs from
the '90s.


> Does this mean that the old hardware I'm running won't support 2.3? Is
> there anyway that I can fix / get around this limitation, or do I simply
> need to roll back and do a clean install of the latest 2.2.x branch?
>
> (At some point, I guess I should just replace this hardware, but I'm trying
> to save money these days...)
>

People throw away much newer hardware than that all the time. :) I'm
sure you can find something better than that for free.
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