On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Peder Rovelstad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. Having a problem here, self-inflicted as usual I'm afraid. I had a > nicely running pfSense install running on a retired Nokia IP530. I had the > base install plus Squid, Adzap, and HAVP on a gmirror RAID. The coup de > grace was attempting to edit the config.xml manually to include a cron job > to reboot the unit once a week. Upon rebooting after the edit, the box came > back up at the initial config dialog. I rebooted again and I guess it > restored a previous config which at least left it able to pass traffic. > However, whenever I try to save anything (rules, package config, etc.) it > returns the message in the subject line. I have tried to use the > backup/restore facility (all) in the web admin, but after the reboot it > attempts to reinstall the packages and just hangs. I'm not sure if that is > the normal behavior or not, the package reinstall I mean, because I'm not > hitting the "Reinstall packages" button. Anything I can do to recover?
You can find the last good config before your manual edits in /cf/conf/backup/ and copy it to /cf/conf/config.xml and reboot, that should get you back to the working state you were previously in. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
