Good day people,
I was running on 6.11 (can't remember which version exactly) I recently decided to change my server chassis from Rosewill RSV-R4000U to RSV-L4412U, for swapping disks if ever needed since I was nearing 2 years of current HDD use, then I thought, new chassis, why not upgrade to Unraid 6.12.3 ?
And so I did some research, tried to look for anything that I have to be aware of, but in the sea of information it was hard to find anything indicative of any failures and everything I read kept indicating that upgrading to 6.12 was a breeze and there will be no issues.
and so I did, and now I regret, first issue was unraid didn't want to boot at all after the upgrade, I kept getting hardware error messages ( that I still get until now - attached below ) at boot, it was very hard to capture, because the moment that screen comes up, it would go blank about one second later and the system would just freeze, I had to long press the power button to get it back, but that happened more than once and I wasn't comfortable doing that so I decided to keep it powered down, and I just removed all disks then went online to try to find out the cause but it was really hard to pin point the issue.
I got a new USB dongle, I restored a backup from unraid connect, and still the same then I read somewhere online that unraid now can run using UEFI so I did try that and viola it doesn't throw a lot of errors and when it gets stuck the screen doesn't go blank or lose signal, then I decided to start in safe mode, and thankfully it did end up booting in safe mode and I can see my settings are intact, I read online to disable plugins and so I did and installed 4 plugins ( Unassigned Devices, CA, Dynamix System Temperature and Unraid Connect) , and then I restarted the server and it booted back normally and I started the array and all was well, until it froze some few hours later.
So I decided to do a fresh install and then move the config files back to the new install maybe that would change the outcome or so I thought. I continued reading online anyways and I found something about macvlan vs ipvlan, I tried to find such an option on unraid on how to disable it but couldn't find it, so I just stopped using that one container that used a vlan setting, (And after this post I will remove vlan altogether from the Interface in network settings within unraid), rebooted and the server stayed up for 3 days all good until today when it also decided to freeze.
I have no clue why it does freeze but here is what I already did, I enabled syslog mirroring and I will attach it hopefully something useful would come out of it, I have no clue how to read the syslog, can't understand it even though I tried, I only saw one pattern which doesn't make sense but it kept saying error and throwing the PID to CPU 3, not sure if this is something related or not.
I also attached diagnostics of after the crash.
even though I can ping the server, I cannot enter the GUI, the monitor has no signal so I will restart the server now, I will run a memtest.
The hardware is the same, I only added an HBA (DELL H310 6Gbps SAS HBA FW:P20 9211-8i IT Mode ) to be able to actually use more HDDs.
Also now I am using a PiKVM V3, so I switch from the KVM Screen HDMI to the PiKVM when I leave home for a long period ( like when I did 3 days ago and only came today to find the server frozen although I did use a VM for cloud gaming around 4 hours before the crash )
At the moment the PC specs are as follows
Intel i7 11700
32GB DDR4 Ram (Corsair LPX)
Asus H570 Pro Motherboard
RTX 2060 Super (passed through for VMs) with a fake HDMI dongle attached
3 Seagate ironwolf nas hdds as parity and 2 data disks 8TB each
1tb nvme drive passed through for a VM
1tb SSD share
240gb ssd share
850W platinum PSU
looking forward for help. and thanks in advance.
syslog
unraid-diagnostics-20230827-0047.zip