Jeff in Indy

Thanks for that. It does show a GUID. However, at the top of the screen it says that the flash drive is corrupt or offline. Is that due to the drive not having a valid key, or could that be part of the problem with using it as a replacement?

I copied Pro.key to the config folder and restarted. I went through the replace key procedure and it failed. Since I've never replaced the USB before, I assume it's a GUID issue. Is there a way to tell if a USB has a GUID? Also, should I copy over the other items in the config folder? I hadn't made any changes to my system in months.

Yes, I’m so sorry. That was rather vague. But I’ve been many different places trying to figure it out, so I wasn’t sure where to begin. I was able to get UNRAID to boot as a new trial version. I scroll down from the main screen and click on the link to register. It offers me the chance to buy it or recover my key, but not to replace a key so I’m not sure where I need to go to register this new key. It offers me the chance to buy it or recover my key, but not to replace a key so I’m not sure where I need to go to register this new key. I’m away from home, but can show you a screenshot you might need when I get back.

Yesterday I started to get crashes every half hour or so. A lot of "SQUASHFS error" messages, so I guess I need to create a new USB drive for my server. So I found an old thumb drive, ran it through the installation process, and booted it up on my server. Now, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get it up and running with my system. I've got my login for my online Unraid account, but I have no idea how to get the system back up and running. Searches turn up methods that no longer work, I'm just at a loss. Any help would be appreciated.

I set up a VM, installed Debian, Casa OS, Crafty, and set up a Minecraft server. It's worked flawlessly for about a month. Until a couple of days ago. Now it's crashing once or twice a day. It just says "reason-crashed". But hours before the crash it says something about being tainted: 2025-07-29 20:01:40.701+0000: Domain id=5 is tainted: high-privileges char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0) 2025-07-30 06:27:37.974+0000: shutting down, reason=crashed I don't know what that means, but it SOUNDS bad... ;-) Any ideas why this is happening? The VM log doesn't have a ton, is there any other logs I should be looking at?

As the title states, over the last few weeks my server's been crashing every 2-3 days. Any help would be greatly appreciated. syslog.log

My server's been crashing every few days, and I want to post the logs here. I THOUGHT the proper procedure was to go into Settings, Syslog Server, and set Local syslog server to Enabled, and set the Local Syslog folder to a share on the system (I set up one called "Log" and set it to Cache Only). When it crashes, there is nothing there. I'm missing something obvious...

That worked, though I figured it out before I read your post. I created a clean install USB, copied all the files from the zip file to it, and it worked like a charm.

So I replaced my MB/CPU/RAM for my server. I wasn't sure how to restore my config, so I ran the UnRaid tool and created a bootable drive for the version I was using. I didn't realize there was an option to use the backup zip file as the source, so I ended up installing a new version of UnRaid on the thumb drive. I tried running the tool again, and this time I noticed that at the very bottom you can point it to your zip backup file. But when I did this, the thumb drive was not bootable, so I couldn't load the OS. How do I get a bootable OS AND have it contain my backed up files?

To button up this thread, it was already connected to MOLEX, so I knew that wasn't it. But itimpi made me wonder if that port was bad. I found a MOLEX splitter and split another port in the PS, and connected it there. It rebuilt and is running great! Thanks for the idea!

My current load is 153W, according to UnRAID's UPS tool. Maybe something with that branch of the power supply? Would that be possible? I'm not sure if I have any Molex ports available. I'll try to shut down the server tonight and see.

I'm using UnRAID primarily for Plex, that's the workhorse. I also have a couple of VMs - Home Assistant, a few basic desktops. I've got about $500 to spend. Would it be better to buy a video card, or replace the MB/CPU/RAM? Here's what I've got: CPU - Intel Core i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHxz MB - ASRock B365M Pro4 Mem - 32GB DDR4 No Graphics card - uses the Intel for GPU I could get something like: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, MSI X670E MAG Tomahawk WiFi, G.Skill Flare X5 Series 32GB DDR5 for $500 or I could get something like a NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB or an AMD Radeon RX 7700XT or an 7800XT. Any advice would be appreciated.

Bought a 14TB Exos a while back to shuck and use in my array. I always pre-clear prior to shucking the drive. Pre-clear went great. When I put it in the array (running 6.12.14, if it matters), while rebuilding the array, it would make an awful whistle/grinding noise every 5 seconds or so. But it did rebuild. It worked for a few days, then fell out of sync for some unknown reason. I plugged the USB panel back in and tested in Windows using SeaTools. 100% fine, no problems. Re-read the above paragraph 2 more times. 3 attempts to rebuild, it works, then falls out of sync. I have tried everything. I don't think I can RMA it, because Seagate would test it and it would come back fine. Anyone else have problems like this with Seagate? I'd buy another drive and use this in my personal drive, but I'm afraid it will happen again.

My UPS load is at 127W. This drive replaced a 4TB that had no problems at all, so unless this hard drive has more power consumption than the last one, it didn't change. I wasn't seeing any errors about losing connection to the drive, but I'm not sure. I DO know that my #6 drive has connection issues, it fell out of sync again. When my new one finishes rebuilding, I'm going to swap cables. The server has been up for 26 hours, and the rebuild is at 22%. So it is getting better, and I'm not hearing the chirping as often. So maybe it will resolve itself.

If you're getting that from the log, that log was obtained while it was plugged into my Windows machine.

Here's the CrystalDisk Info, if that'll help: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskInfo 9.5.0 (C) 2008-2024 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (06) ST14000NM0121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model : ST14000NM0121 Firmware : SN01 Disk Size : 14000.5 GB (8.4/137.4/14000.5/14000.5) Buffer Size : Unknown Queue Depth : 32 # of Sectors : 27344764928 Rotation Rate : 7200 RPM Interface : Serial ATA Major Version : ACS-4 Minor Version : ---- Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600 Power On Hours : 291 hours Power On Count : 9754 count Temperature : 29 C (84 F) Health Status : Good Features : S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, GPL APM Level : ---- AAM Level : ---- Drive Letter : -- S.M.A.R.T. -------------------------------------------------------------- ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name 01 _82 _64 _44 00000898D269 Read Error Rate 03 _96 _94 __0 000000000000 Spin-Up Time 04 _91 _91 _20 00000000261A Start/Stop Count 05 100 100 _10 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count 07 _79 _60 _30 0000045A9886 Seek Error Rate 09 100 100 __0 000000000123 Power-On Hours 0A 100 100 _97 000000000000 Spin Retry Count 0C _91 _91 _20 00000000261A Power Cycle Count 12 100 100 _50 000000000000 Vendor Specific BB 100 100 __0 000000000000 Reported Uncorrectable Errors BC 100 100 __0 000000000000 Command Timeout BE _71 _44 __0 00001D1B001D Airflow Temperature C0 _96 _96 __0 000000002615 Power-off Retract Count C1 _96 _96 __0 00000000269D Load/Unload Cycle Count C2 _29 _56 __0 00110000001D Temperature C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count C7 200 200 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count C8 100 100 __1 000000000000 Write Error Rate F0 100 100 __0 344E000000BF Head Flying Hours F1 100 253 __0 00138E2F646F Total Host Writes F2 100 253 __0 0018A54EA75D Total Host Reads

Bought a new 14TB Seagate drive during Black Friday. Did Pre-Clear x2, everything turned out fine. No issues. Hooked it into the server, replacing a 4TB drive (as drive #8), and started the rebuild. For some reason shortly after starting, drive #7 also fell out of sync (I've got double parity). So I stopped, set both up for rebuild, and restarted it. The new drive (#8) started making a chirping noise, and the rebuild was SLOW. Going to bed, I woke up to it being 2% rebuilt. So I stopped it, set #7 to rebuild on its own (it ran a LOT quicker), and moved my new Seagate to my Windows machine, and ran SeaTools on the drive. It checked the whole drive, no issues, no sound. After #7 rebuilt and SeaTools finished scanning, I hooked my new Seagate as #8 again. This time #6 fell out of sync. It ran really slow again. Again, I pulled the new drive and rebuilt #6. During that time, I discovered that there can often be problems with Seagate drives with auto-head parking. I ran the tool to fix that issue. Now #6 is done rebuilding and I plugged #8 back in again. This time nothing fell out of sync! But again, I've got this chirping noise that only occurs when I'm rebuilding, and it's slow (4 hours and I'm at .7% - so a rebuild will take... 24 days?). I've attached a video of what the noise sounds like. Does anyone have any ideas why it's chirping and it's so slow? Hard Drive Sound.MP4

Got an out of memory error. Any insights would be appreciated. P.S. Yes, I'm aware I ran out of disk space. kaokulk-diagnostics-20240930-0909.zip

Never mind. I can't ssh in nor access the server directly (it was on the "login" prompt, and times out).

I've been having problems with UnRAID where it will not load the web page, and the dockers are non-responsive. I can still ping it, so it's technically "up". I did not load the GUI on the server. I know I can reboot the server, but is there any way from the prompt to check and see if I can get logs before rebooting? I'm not Linus savvy...

I was out of town a few days, and returned to "Your server has run out of memory, and processes (potentially required) are being killed off. You should post your diagnostics and ask for assistance on the Unraid forums." So here I am, and here are my diagnostics. Any advice would be helpful. kaokulk-diagnostics-20231218-2013.zip

I royally screwed up and reformatted one of my hard drives, but I didn't see any other option. Let me walk through what happened and set me straight on where I went wrong (besides, obviously, reformatting). I had a SATA card go belly up. It resulted in one of my drives getting out of sync. After I replaced the card (thanks for the day delay, Amazon), I did the whole stop/start/stop/start the array to get it to rebuild the drive. The server faithfully rebuilt my drive, which took a day plus. I came home tonight, and it was completed. The drive had a green dot, the array said it was good. But my drive did not have the Browse option, and on the right side, it said the drive was not formatted. but otherwise, it all looked good. It wasn't emulating the contents, etc. Not seeing any other option, and the drive telling me it didn't have a format on it, I ignored the "Don't format a drive when rebuilding!" warning, and faithfully destroyed 12TB of my data. So a few questions: - Why did it spend 2 days rebuilding when it said there wasn't a proper format on the drive? - What would the right option have been when it said that? - Is there any tool to periodically get a list of the contents of each drive, so I would at least know what was missing? - Can Unraid change the warning message to "Hey! Jeff! Don't be an idiot! I don't care WHAT the message is! DON'T reformat the drive!" Thanks all.

Trying to access my server by its IP address produced no results (the server was headless), I told it to reboot. A few hours later, it did the same thing again. I plugged in a monitor, and it is not displaying anything. I'm going to reboot it again. If I understand correctly, the logs that would help me troubleshoot the issue gets erased when it restarts, yes? If so, is there a way to record the log in a way that it won't be lost when it restarts?

My Plex server was not responding well (I could browse, but nothing was streaming) - I was on 6.11.1 (I upgraded to .3 soon after). I went to Processes, and saw this: I paused, then stopped the nzbget docker. Even after stopping it, the process still remained (unless it somehow doesn't update). So a couple of questions: 1) Is there a way to sort the processes by CPU usage? Or is there a better plug-in to use? 2) Why would the process continue, even after stopping the docker?

So I’m using the steps on the website to back up the cache to the array. I changed the shares to Yes where appropriate and started the Mover. It took the cache from 600+GB to 483GB used. it hasn’t moved in the past couple of hours. The mover is still running, but nothing is happening. How can I see what’s happening, and why it’s stopped moving?