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.

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