bpharrison

I'd tried root with no password and that didn't work. I shut it down and pulled the flash drive into my Windows machine and backed up and renamed those files like you suggested. And it appears to have worked. The server is back up, webui works again, and all Docker containers are up and running. Question - Is there anything other than a password issue that could've been resolved by deleting passwd, smbpasswd, or shadow? Thanks for your help. I'm gonna go let the wife know Plex is back on the menu.

I ran a chkdsk on the flash drive and it has no errors. I don't believe the password has been changed as it acts different when I enter the correct password versus when I enter an incorrect one. After the correct one, it shows the last log in and the previous log in failures (matching the attempts with the wrong password).

I built a Plex server about two years ago and it’s been running close to constantly since. I access it through my main Windows 10 PC via the webui. I typically keep Chrome tabs open for the main Unraid webui, Plex, NZBGet, Radarr, Sonarr,and Tautulli. The other day, the webui tab appeared to time out after sitting untouched for a few days. I refreshed it and it prompted me to log in (which it doesn’t typically do) and then it wouldn’t accept my credentials, which I know are correct. The other tabs for my Docker containers continued to work fine, so I know the server was still up and running. I messed around with my Windows credentials, cleared my browser cache, tried other browsers, and restarted my PC, but had no luck. I hooked a monitor and keyboard up to the server but had no signal to the monitor. Eventually, I quick-pressed the main power button which initiated a server shutdown. After a reboot, I was greeted with the log in request, which I still couldn’t get past. I rebooted and tried in the GUI mode, as well as Safe Mode without plugins, but nothing other than GUI mode giving me a message that said something like “Failed to execute login command.” In the non-GUI mode, I can tell a slight difference between when I enter the correct password and an incorrect one. After the correct password it shows me the Unraid version and the number of failed log in attempts before popping up the log in prompt again. Any help would be much appreciated.