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I am running the FEB 7th Beta5 build. Free radius starts, and the services page confirms this. However, it seems that pfsense may try to start freeradius more than once since clients can no longer authenticate correctly once the system is rebooted after the initial package installation. The log file reads as follows:

"Error: There appears to be another RADIUS server running on the authentication port 1812"

Essentially, you can't reboot pfsense once you install freeradius, otherwise it will no longer work.

This bug is stila actual on RC-3.
The webGUI shows freeRADIUS running but clients cannot authenticate anymore. This is after rebooting/restarting pfsense.

My workaround is:
connecting with ssh and then kill the "radiusd -s" process and then do a service restart over the webGUI.

I think the problem is in freeradius.inc because the process there is killed only with "killall radiusd -s" and this is not working when I am using this command on the shell (it is the same command which the stop button under services is using - and not working).
it is only working with "kill -9 <PID>".
Perhaps we should use the kill command from squid package which is using "grep" and "awk" to focus on the correct PID.