Hi all, I’ve got a cheap Celeron box running OPNSense and it’s been pretty good so far, but I found twice that the device turned off at some point while I was at work, and I have been unable to figure out what’s causing it.

The only change was that I enabled Monit to see if I could figure out what was causing crowdsec to stop sometimes but never ended up configuring anything. I’ve only been running it for a couple months though, so it’s possible that that is not related.

I know that on a Mac (based on freebsd, right?) you can determine whether the shutdown reason was a hard shutdown, regular shutdown, or the power cable being unplugged. Is it possible to do that with OPNSense? I’d like to narrow it down to software or hardware ideally.

  • @doctorzeromdOP
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    19 months ago

    Dmesg doesn’t go back very far, does it? I only see the current boot and the one before that, which was a normal shutdown.

    I believe I was able to see the last logs before the system turned off last time, and the last messages were syncing discs and all buffers synced, which I would have expected to be part of a normal shutdown.

    If it happens again I’ll be sure to get the logs before the crash or shut down and save it to a file.