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Thanks for the ideas, but after fiddling with it enough, I finally got it to boot without it going into the loop and logged on from my laptop. Then told it to revert to Version: 6.9.2 and after more fiddling, it seems to be back to pre-upgrade normal. I'm going to wait awhile to upgrade until I'm certain the kinks are out.
I saw somewhere that powering down completely help in some of the reboot loop situations. And it seemed to.
Thanks for the help.
Mike
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Maybe shoulda left well enough alone. Previous version has been working fine.
Backed up the flash drive and have the zip on my laptop.
Upgrade appeared to go ok and then it said it needed a reboot.
Reboot went ok but when I tried logging in, it would not take my password and after a few tries, it said too many failed logins.
So, I tried using the method here:
https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Troubleshooting#Lost_root_Password
Lost root Password
Occasionally users lose their password for managing Unraid via the Unraid webGUI or console. This may be that they simply forgot the password, but corruption of the flash drive can also result in the password not being recognized.
Passwords for shares can be changed/reset from the Unraid webGUI.
To reset the management password, use the following process:
Shutdown server and then plug the USB boot flash device into a PC or Mac
While there it is a good idea to run a check on the flash drive and make a backup of its contents
Delete these files:
config/passwd
config/shadow
config/smbpasswd
Plug the flash back into the server and start up again.
Note that this will reset all user passwords including ‘root’ user to null (blank).
After trying that, it goes through the boot process and immediately restarts.
Tried extracting the zipped boot flash file to a spare blank usb2 drive.
Using that to boot, plenty of messages that it can't find hardware, including network card. Can't even get to a login screen.
any help would be appreciated.
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Finally stumbled across the solution. How things got screwed up, I have no idea. Plex support asked me to enable logging on the ROKU and send them the logs. Was trying to do that tonight, but could not connect to the ROKU. After much irritation, I looked at the ROKU settings and saw that the ROKU was connected to an old 5GB guest network I had long ago created for use with the ROKU but had not used in years. Switched the ROKU connection back to the 5GB network I had been using on the router and everything worked again.😝
No idea why the ROKU changed networks since the update was to the Plex server and not to the ROKU. Have disabled the guest network that caused the trouble.
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Tried lots stuff. No help. Finally left a request for help on the Plex support forum.
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Still haven't figured it out. Let me know if you do.
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Plex has been running fine on unraid for a long time. Got a notification this morning that there was an update available for Plex, so I updated it. Seemed to go ok, but later when I tried to look at something using plex on our TV using ROKU as we always do, it said the server is not available.
However i can still watch Plex on my laptop on the home network at https://app.plex.tv/
Tried setting IP of the server manually using TV interface. No help,
All the online internet TV stuff that Plex provides that I never use works fine. Only content on the Plex server can't be accessed, although, as I said can watch in on the laptop.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Never mind, for now anyway. Following a suggestion, I cleared browser cache.
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Made mistake of listening to some warning about needing to make root password more secure. Should have left well enough alone. After changing password, could not log in using the new password.
Finally used procedure for lost password in Manual Troubleshooting page
Delete these files:
config/passwd
config/shadow
config/smbpasswd
After putting the flash drive back in and starting up: unraid boots, Plex runs and I suppose it's checking parity since I could not shut down cleanly with logging in after the password change. But, I can still not log in. The Troubleshooting page says all passwords are set to null by deleting the config files. But unraid at first said I needed a password and I now keep getting the error shown below.
I still have copies of the config files I deleted.
Help please.
While I'm asking, have backed up the flash drive to server on occasion, but have no idea how to recover the backup without logging in.
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On 3/18/2021 at 5:33 PM, Djoss said:
What is the location where you are restoring the files?
Sorry. Just found this. Created a separate share to eliminate variables. This is it, along with permissions. Not a linux wiz, so may be something simple.
Thanks.
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let me know. I'm sure I'm just doing something stupid in Cloudberry but lord knows what.
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I can't get a restore to work either.
Originally created a big container using encryption and backed up a lot to it. Using the "browse fiies" option on the Backblaze site shows what looks iike the correct files, tho couldn't download them because of encryption.
To eliminate encryption as a variable, I created another container for pictures with no encryption. Backup completed and I could browse the files on the Backblaze site and download and view individual pictures in my browser.
Below are permissions.
But still can't get a restore to work. Created a new folder to restore to.
As per a previous post, checked the time and it was correct.
Each time I try to restore a picture folder, it fails with the following error
I asked it for a detailed email report and it sends this which is not helpful
Help?
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Never mind. Think I found the answer. Can't do it on Backblaze or most other cloud storage. This supplies some answers.
How to Encrypt Cloud Storage in 2021: Better Safe Than Sorry
These services are a bit more limited (and pricier) than Backblaze, so I suppose the solution would be to split info that you want really encrypted from ordinary and only encrypt the critical stuff.
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A little confused. Signed up for Backblaze and got the trial version of Cloudberry as was described. Used to use Cloudberry Windows Backup and so am comfortable with it. No problem with the cost.
When I used to use Cloudberry with Rackspace I had set an encryption key for the containers and had to use that to get into the containers. Somewhere in the setup yesterday I believe for cloudberry, there appeared an option for an encryption key, so I created one and let the backup run. Seemed fine.
I just logged onto Backblaze B2 and browsed the container which appears to be unencrypted. I can browse the files without any key and the B2 site says it is unencrypted. It also says under encryption: "Backblaze B2 key (SSE-B2), an encryption key that Backblaze creates, manages and uses for you."
Don't really want that. Too much snooping these days. I want to hold my own keys. I looked through the options for the Cloudberry container and found no option for encryption. Is there any way to have a private encryption key?
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FWIW For anyone like me who spontaneously could no longer see your Tower on your local network from within a Windows 10 VM on the Tower, I poked around after reading through this thread and found that SMB 1.0 had been turned off, presumably by an update around November 10, 2020. All the other machines on my local LAN could see the Tower fine.
I turned it back on and the Tower reappeared in my Network Places.
The blame doesn't appear to be with Lime Tech but with MSFT monkeying around with network settings in updates I hope that Lime Tech will put a permanent fix for this Windows issue in a future update.
Thanks.
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Just installed the docker and got it to connect using PIA defaults. After watching SpaceInvader's vid on it. Thanks.
Haven't looked into airvpn yet.
I have used another non-US VPN for years and looked for reviews of others.
I wasn't thrilled that PIA is US based and ran across this which is a bit troubling.
FWIW
https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn/reviews/private-internet-access/
Hope I'm not causing problems unnecessarily.
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Looking at one of these but don't know much about 10GB. Is Cat6 network cable compatibale and sufficient?
Thanks
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On 4/19/2020 at 2:41 PM, Ford Prefect said:
...came here to look for a solution to the same issue.
The problem as I understand it, is in the environment settings of "LS_COLORS" and "LS_OPTIONS".
Normally something you would specify in your .bashrc file.
For user root in unRAID, a .bash_profile exists, but I could not add any new LS_OPTIONS or LS_COLORS setings and make them stick.
I now solved this issue by simply adding "alias ls="ls --color=never" to the end of the .bash_profile...now everthing is simple, without colors.
IMHO much better than before
Who the heck made blue with a green background the default ??
I would appreciate info on how to do this. My eyes are getting worse and I really have trouble reading with the highlights
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BTW, you might see a Seagate Exos 14TB drive being precleared. Had been using Ironwolf drives, but Newegg had some specials with good prices. Specs looks good and they have a 5 year warranty. Runs much cooler that the Ironwolf. Hope it's good.
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Noob here. Have spent a few weeks blundering about in Unraid and have a reasonably functional system. Unfortunately, did not encrypt the array and will have to bite the bullet on that at some point, tho don't have anything confidential on it yet. But at least I have plenty of space to move things around. But that's not the subject of this post.
Was intrigued by Space Invader One's videos about encrypting unassigned drives and decided to encrypt an old drive and use that for confidential files. Short cut the video directions by just formatting the old drive in encrypted xfs format and assigned a passphrase. That seemed to work fine. Put some files on it to test it with no problems.
The problem is that if I unmount the drive, it just remounts without asking for the passphrase. I assume there is a key file somewhere with the passphrase and if I delete that, it will require the passphrase. I can keep the pass phrase elsewhere. Problem is, I don't know enough to know where the key file is. Have watched the videos, but that didn't help as to the location.
Would appreciate a pointer on that.
Attached is a copy of my current UD configuration.
Thanks
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Thanks. Since I've got it running now with the spare 1GB Intel card and am a noob, may just wait til it comes out of beta to change it.
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16 hours ago, ChatNoir said:
I see that your board has a 1Gb and a 2.5Gb Intel NICs.
Since you are running 6.8.3, the 2.5Gb will probably not work, try the 1Gb port (I think it is the black one).
Thanks for posting this. Have been tearing my hair out most of the day with my first unraid install. Could never find it on my network and even tried setting an IP for it to no avail. Built a new server with an I5-10500 and Asus Z490 Strix Gaming A. Not an expensive board but it had an I225V_Intel_Gigabit built in which impressed and worked fine in Windows. Finally thought of a driver issue and found this. Never worried about it since everyone supports Intel 😆
Fortunately had a spare Intel NIC I had bought for a old home server I was going to try FreeNAS on and it was said that doesn't like the Realtek NIC built into that one. Once I installed the spare, it worked fine am about to get my trial USB Key.
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"no medium" error trying to reinstall plex
in General Support
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Have used plexpass without a problem for several years. Last month we had some power outages and when I got my server back up, plex could not access the data share where my videos were still located. After fiddling with it unsuccessfully, finally decided to reinstall plex. I keep getting the following :
docker run
-d
--name='Plex-Media-Server'
--net='host'
-e TZ="America/Chicago"
-e HOST_OS="Unraid"
-e HOST_HOSTNAME="Tower"
-e HOST_CONTAINERNAME="Plex-Media-Server"
-e 'PLEX_CLAIM'='claim-P6jJSKcHnBXAQbhbu4Zo'
-e 'PLEX_UID'='99'
-e 'PLEX_GID'='100'
-e 'VERSION'='latest'
-l net.unraid.docker.managed=dockerman
-l net.unraid.docker.webui='http://[IP]:[PORT:32400]/web'
-l net.unraid.docker.icon='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plexinc/pms-docker/master/img/plex-server.png'
-v '/tmp':'/transcode':'rw'
-v '/mnt/user/PlexMedia/':'/data':'rw'
-v '/mnt/user/appdata/Plex-Media-Server':'/config':'rw' 'plexinc/pms-docker'
c0689b7aff31b59d78853ce046e72037c1f38b03102b6a1aef8b6174fab3a819
docker: Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/user/appdata/Plex-Media-Server': mkdir /mnt/user/appdata/Plex-Media-Server: no medium found.
The command failed.
Any help would be appreciated.