Auto starting jail causing system crash and reboot

[Quaik8]

Hi everybody,
I'm having trouble with a newly created jail that causes the entire system to crash and reboot before I have any chance to stop it.
I can boot in single user mode but I don't know where to look or what to do to stop this jail, or all jails from starting.
Any help would be highly appreciated to get me out of this reboot loop of nightmares.

 

[dlavigne]

Hardware specs? How many jails are installed?

 

[Quaik8]

Are the specs really important in that case ?

What I can remember :
- core i3
- 32gb
- 6*3tb (raidz2)

I had no problems at all before I restarted that jail to see if everything that I configured worked well from the start.
I've around 6 or 7 jails (sabznbd, couchpotato, sonarr, tranmission, nginx for proxy_pass)
and the newly created jail that killed everything is a openvpn server to access my local network securely.

 

[dlavigne]

Specs are always important

Anything related in /var/log/messages?

 

[Quaik8]

Specs are always important :)

Anything related in /var/log/messages?

Nothing in /var/log/messages, I don't even have a /var/log folder in single user mode.

 

[dlavigne]

Does the system not boot at all? It is possible the boot device died. Does the system boot if you install to a different USB stick and boot from it?

 

[Quaik8]

Does the system not boot at all? It is possible the boot device died. Does the system boot if you install to a different USB stick and boot from it?

The system boots, the pool is mounted, some jails are successfully started.
But when the openvpn_2 jail is starting all hell break loose, errors scrolls too fast to read and the system reboots.

 

[Quaik8]

I fixed it, but I'm not very proud how I did it, but it worked.
The openvpn_2 jail was the 5th jail to start so I had about 10sec or less to log in the Web UI => go to the jail tab => edit openvpn_2 and untick autostart.
I tried it before this post without success ... but I tried and tried again ^^

Thanks dlavigne