Hi there,
I'm sorry I didn't find a better title I'm still in the Trial period of unRAID, it's a safe purchase for me (just waiting for some components). But I also mention this to emphasize that I'm a new user, not only with unRAID but Linux stuff in general.
So, here's the situation. I was just coming home and my unRAID was terribly loud. All fans (controlled by the mainboard) blasting at full speed. I was not able to reach it over the WebUI on the network, my router showed it as disconnected. However, the ethernet port (normal Gigabit connection from the mainboard) was still blinking. No imagine from the HDMI (onboard graphics), but I also didn't start in GUI mode. I tried using the switch to safely boot it down through ACPI, no dice, no reaction. So I pushed and held the power button till the power went out.
I left my appartement ~3h before and everything was fine. So it should have happened between 19:30 and 22:30h
After rebooting the machine the sound was back to normal, inside the WebUI I saw the CPU was sitting at 60°C (but you know how much peak heat can vanish in a short amount of time). All HDDs were in good temp, as far as I can tell all shares still work (no data loss), parity check is now running (and will likely take 10h+)
I only run few dockers, like a Plex server or jDownloader2, and a few others that don't run by default. Yesterday I installed my first and only VM, but I think I switched that one off in the evening (macOS Catalina through Macinabox).
So, I panicked a bit. Now I'm asking myself if and how I could find out what happened?
I opened the system log (not that I understand any of it), but it just starts at 22:30h when I booted the machine again :o
Best,
Rick