bnevets27

Version 1.0.11 downloaded a few hours ago

Well the upgrade hasn't gone smoothly for me so far (coming from 1.05 fresh install). Dumped most of the plugins into the plugins folder and I couldn't get unraid to respond on //tower, I could get it on putty though. Rebooted and didn't respond over the network at all. Moved the plugins out of the plugins folder and booted and accessed //tower without any problems. Sorry didn't get any logs, though there might be one.... Anyhow, started to install the plugins manually and ran into this. root@Tower:~# installplg /boot/config/plugins/simpleFeatures.system.info-1.0.10-noarch-1.plg installing plugin: simpleFeatures.system.info-1.0.10-noarch-1 file /tmp/plugin-prepare: successfully wrote INLINE file contents /bin/bash /tmp/plugin-prepare ... success file /boot/plugins/simpleFeatures/simpleFeatures.system.info-1.0.10-i486-1.txz: downloading from http://unraid-simplefeatures.googlecode.com/files/simpleFeatures.system.info-1.0.10-i486-1.txz ... wget: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory bad download, deleting Warning: unlink(/boot/plugins/simpleFeatures/simpleFeatures.system.info-1.0.10-i486-1.txz): No such file or directory in /usr/local/sbin/installplg on line 70 I got that for stats and temp also. Active streams, activity monitor, cache dirs, core, disk health, email and log all installed fine.

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Just curious what everyone uses for port numbers. I can understand if you don't want to share what ports you use. Just looking for suggestions. Seeing as the defaults are as such for following: 8080 = unmenu and sabnzbd 88 = what I have used before for sabnzbd because 8080 is taken by unmenu 9090 = sabnzbd ssl 8081 = sickbeard 5000 = couchpotato v1 5050 = couchpotato v2 8003 = utorrent 8181 = headphones 89 = unraid-web 4040 = subsonic 4141 = subsonic I was thinking of using 8081, 8082, 8083, etc... But something tells me there is a better idea. Or am I just over thinking it? Thanks EDIT: Completely forgot to mention I do have some of those programs open to the world. All of them aren't on the default ports and I wouldn't want to keep them there. I'm redoing my install and will be opening them up again. Currently they are accessed by username and passwords (16 digit alpha numeric) and most of them over ssl. I know this is a loaded question but is there anything else I can do within reason to protect the apps? I am not giving up the ability to access them threw my phone as that is one of the reasons I run most of those apps. All the apps use a ip combined with port and user/pass.

Wow, that's weird. Reboot several times with the plugins in the plugins folder and they didn't install. Manually installed one of the plugins and they all installed upon next reboot.

Unless I'm missing something, plugins are supposed to install on boot, correct? So why don't they install? Manually installing works fine.

I like the idea that has come out of this but I do think a small list of hardware would still be good. It would be nice to know what hardware limetech (Tom) is using for his development. There is/was two officially recommended MB's from limetech, but they are now dated. Having a small known list of the most compatible hardware is good. That way if someone wants to go build a reliable system the info is there Sure it might be difficult to find or might not be the most cost effective but it is what it is. Also a small list of what hardware to avoid would be nice. IE, realtek chipsets will probably work but intel would be a better choice.

Just remember that which ever hardware is recommended it is only available for so long till it stops being produced. So the recommended hardware list would have to be a constantly evolving list. There is a hardware compatibility, located here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility But it is/becoming out of date. In theory buying anything on that list that is "level 3" tested you will be good to go. For even more assurance you can get the "official Lime Tech recommended board"

Not that I know of. But it sounds like they are getting more stock. I'm not in any rush so I can wait, If I decide to go down that route. I'm sure the new batch will be a different config but similar and I assume it will still be a few generations back hardware and thus not be able to run ESXi. If by some chance they do run ESXi then its a no brainier but I think that's extremely unlikely.

That's definitely another option. Only reason I was looking at a rack mount is because I was looking at a specific one, the used ones by tam solutions here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=21958.0 for about $300. For that price I would have a hard time even buying just the hotswap bays. A norco case alone is $400. That's why it interests me. But unfortunately doesn't ESXi pass through. I have no real need for newznab. But it was something I would like to play around with. AndrewT, I just read you signature, you seem to be running just about everything I can think of. What is the your spec's, how do you have your unraid setup? Does it run without crashing unraid?

Well I was going to just mount my Unraid shares on my "apps box" using clifs, that way they would function as a local drive. Not being very knowledgeable in Linux, not sure it that will work well or not. My other board has a single core celeron and uses ddr2, it's just a crappie little computer put together with free parts. Only reason I mention it is I could start using it as the "apps box" just to see how it would work out. I am looking to spend a little money, I feel like I need an upgrade. I can't decide if the 24 bay rack mount server is the right fit for me or if I should try and build an ESXi server. If I go with the rack mount then I'm really not changing how I'm going to be running addons, they will have to run with Unraid. ESXi won't run on that server. But I do like the fact that it is quite powerful, it's a purpose built server and it has hot swap bays. If I do an ESXi build, it looks like it will be a lot more expensive. I'll have to try and build it on the cheap by reusing my psu (hopefully it would be compatible), case and hard drive cages.

There is also nzb 360. Its paid and was actually one of the few things I've bought. Good developer and the best GUI out of all I've tried but missing a little functionally here and there.

I need some help trying to figure out which is the best road to go down. I have many "plugins" (running 4.7) and other features added on to my unraid install and will admit to fiddling with it and installing more addons/plugins over time. With that said I will admit there's a good chance my fiddling causes a little instability in my unraid server. Therefore I would like to move all my plugin tasks off of my unraid server and leave it to only store my data. Now I'll be honest, I don't really WANT to do that but having to do hard shut downs of my server with all my data does not leave an easy feeling with me. I figure this leaves me with two options (I am open to suggestions). 1) Use a separate computer running a linux distro (ubuntu?) to run my plugins. Plugins I would/do use, sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato, headphones, mysql, subsonic, possibly a minified version of xbmc, newznab, and for the record/some other pvr backend. And anything else I come across that seems interesting. Only problem I see with that is there is going to be a lot of data moving between the two boxes. The linux box would be doing all of the work and data would be moving in and out of it from the unraid box a lot. 2) ESXi looks to be popular around here.I know nothing about it other then its VM software and that to run it you need compatible hardware for full pass-through support. Seems like having separate VM's would be nice, though I have no real NEED to have them, but it would be fun to play with. Third option? Find a way to make unraid not crash due to my messing with it? I may have a problem with running out of memory due to trying to run so many plugins but I have had a very large swap space setup on a ssd. I figured that would prevent any out of memory errors. I know it would be more helpful if I knew what errors I was getting. Though this looks like an interesting way to prevent emhttp from being killed: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25609.msg222985#msg222985 Also I think a large part portion on the issues I have been having is with my onboard ethernet chipset (Realtek 8111C) seen here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6776.0 I'm currently running an old 10/100 card which is more stable but slooooow. I need to find a replacement that isn't too expensive but most look to be using realtek chips and they don't seem to play well with unraid. What it really comes to is this: Do I look at getting a 24bay rack mount that comes up for sale for about $300: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=21958.0 or Do I build a ESXi build into my current form factor, a CM590 with 5-in-4 cages (not hot swap bays, which is only starting to bother me slightly lately). With a good quality MB. I want it to be rock solid and I did like my brief experience with IPMI on a supermicro board I had for a little while. Only thing is the cost to do this with a supermicro board and the supporting CPU, RAM, and controller cards is defiantly more expensive then the prebuild server route. Though I also see little need for 24 bays, 15 is doing me fine for now, it currently has a slot or two left and still a few low capacity drives in it. This is what I am currently running: CPU: Intel Celeron 3.0GHz Single Core MB: Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR Mem: 2x1GB OCZ PSU: Corsair TX650 Cards: 4x SYBA 2 port SATA II (SiI3132) Case: CM590 Caddys: 2x Cooler Master 4-in-3 UnRAID: 4.7 Pro I have a second PC with comparable MB, MEM, CPU. All this is keeping in mind that money is definitely a factor, less is better but I'll spend what I have to, so as not to have headaches down the road. Currently power consumption is not a concern, and space/noise could possible be a factor but I do have a couple corners I may be able to hide a server if its larger then a normal PC, ie the rack-mount. Sorry for the long post and what is basically my ramblings. Just need some help on direction.

These look like a steal. So whats the catch? What cons do these have? I read the 4U's are noisy and that the psu's are the cause so once they are replaced they are a lot quieter. I also read the 2U's they were offering were a lot quieter. Aside from that, anything else I'm missing? Are they "too old"? Only con I can see is that from what I can tell they can't do hardware pass through on EXSi, and I was considering getting into that.

good to know, thanks

How did you end up solving this, I'm having the same problem. First off, how do you unhid the hidden files? I can't for the life of me figure that out, I would like to do it recursively to my top folder. Second how did you get couch potato to stop making the files hidden? I did see the last comment in the bug report was this from RuudBurger: I would venture to assume that worked because you never came back. Thing is as far as I know couchpotato is running as root. And I'm not sure what the rest is referring to. (I'm running Couch Potato v2 and unRAID 4.7 if that makes a difference)

Anyone had a look at this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=132919 It's purpose is to build a headless XBMC install to run on your media server and update the local MYSQL db so you do not have to have a separate XBMC box updating the MYSQL db. Which I would assume most people in this thread would be interested in. The thread is a little all over the place/hard to follow. But apparently the build instructions are here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=132919&pid=1182615#pid1182615 I have no idea how or what to do with that info and have no idea if this would even run on an unRAID build. But if someone smarter then me who is also interested wanted to take and look and report back..... It looks like it would fill in the final gap in having a complete server backend for XBMC. FYI, it does require Frodo, tho there looks to be an Eden patched version....

Fixed!!!! Added the drive back on my primary server in the same slot. Ran initconfig and its now building parity! I don't know what the hell went on. I guess somethings got loose during the move. Any tips to enure everything it in tip top working order? I assume just run a long SMART test on all suspect drives?? EDIT: Not quite yet. I can't catch a break. Looks my disk3 is throwing out a ton of read errors. syslog was too big to attach. It's full of: Oct 26 01:17:09 Tower kernel: handle_stripe read error: 112728728/1, count: 1 Oct 26 01:17:09 Tower kernel: md: disk3 read error Oct 26 01:17:09 Tower kernel: handle_stripe read error: 112728736/1, count: 1 Oct 26 01:17:09 Tower kernel: md: disk3 read error Oct 26 01:17:09 Tower kernel: handle_stripe read error: 112728744/1, count: 1 Is it possible for a "bank" of my controller to go bad?? I have 6 onboard sata ports. The 3 on the left contain the 3 drives that have been giving me trouble. disk3,disk5, and disk 7. Motherboard is: Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR EDIT2: Solved, checked my disk3 with reiserfsck everything was fine. So I ran initconfig and started up the array.

Well I pulled the drive and moved it to my other unraid server. I just ran reiserfsck again. This is the output. I guess between when I ran reiserfsck the first time and when I grabbed the SMART report from the drive I must have fixed a loose cable. So it looks as if I should go ahead with the --rebuild-sb option. I assume it shouldn't matter that this drive is in a different server? And I assume it's still advisable to make a clone of the drive first? Thank you for your help!! EDIT: oops. I guess I was supposed to run: reiserfsck --check /dev/sda1 Its checking now root@Tower2:/lib# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15504336 cylinders Units = cylinders of 63 * 512 = 32256 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2 15504336 488386552+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. root@Tower2:/lib# reiserfsck --check /dev/sda reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to [email protected], ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sda Will put log info to 'stdout' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes reiserfs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/sda. Failed to open the filesystem. If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is corrupted and you need to run this utility with --rebuild-sb. EDIT2: Yeah! Everything looks good from what I can tell. root@Tower2:/lib# reiserfsck --check /dev/sda1 reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to [email protected], ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sda1 Will put log info to 'stdout' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes ########### reiserfsck --check started at Fri Oct 26 04:39:30 2012 ########### Replaying journal: Done. Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree.. finished Comparing bitmaps..finished Checking Semantic tree: finished No corruptions found There are on the filesystem: Leaves 51852 Internal nodes 331 Directories 5047 Other files 71951 Data block pointers 44200889 (0 of them are zero) Safe links 0 ########### reiserfsck finished at Fri Oct 26 04:43:38 2012 ###########

I received bread: Cannot read the block (2): (Input/output error). when I ran: reiserfsck --check /dev/md7 I seem to be in the same situation as snsumner in this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11648.0 But according to the wiki: Important Note!!! Do NOT run reiserfsck with the --rebuild-sb or --rebuild-tree switches, unless you are instructed to, by the instruction of a previous run of reiserfsck, or by an expert user! So don't want to try anything until an expert tells me its a good idea. snsumner ran the options in this order: --rebuild-tree --rebuild-sb badblocks -nvs /dev/sdb Result: So overnight I ran badblock and long smarttest and both completed with no errors! To troubleshoot further I moved the disk to another controller. I then went into UnRAID and assigned the drive back to disk4. Now unraid is telling me its a new disk and giving me the option:

Ok, maybe I'm just losing it but my parity is orange and it says my parity is invalid in unmenu. I moved my disk 7 to a different controller to troubleshoot. Now my server is in this state (attached). What do I do?

Well I have been searching since I first got this problem and this is what I have uncovered: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Check_Disk_Filesystems According to the above wiki I can run reiserfsck with these options: --fix-fixable --rebuild-sb --rebuild-tree I would like some advice on which option to run reiserfsck with. Also, should I make a clone of my disk7 to a spare disk (outside of unraid) encase one of those attempts with reiserfsck causes more harm then good? Can I remove my disk 7 and work on recovering it in another unraid server, so I can remove it from my primary server and start building parity to protect my remaining disks? According to Joe L. : Possibly, but the inability to read block 2 could just as easily be because either the power or data cable is loose. Have you powered down and re-seated them? Joe L. More suggestions for running reiserfsck: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11648.0 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=21984.0

Here's the current status of my server. Parity invalid and disk 7 unformatted. I bought new cables and installed them on disk 7 and parity as a precaution. Attached is my syslog from start up till now. Current status of unraid's main page and the smart report for my parity and disk 7. Update: Ran: reiserfsck --check /dev/md7 Output: root@Tower:~# reiserfsck --check /dev/md7 reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to [email protected], ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/md7 Will put log info to 'stdout' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly. bread: Cannot read the block (2): (Input/output error). Aborted root@Tower:~# Update 2: I also just bought a 3TB drive, assuming I can't trust my disk 7 any logger and feel a little unsure with my current parity. But the thing is: A) this is my first and only 3TB, so it will have to be parity. B) I'm on 4.7. Is it possible for me to assign the 3tb to parity and unraid only see and use 2tb? I do plan on upgrading to 5.0 relatively soon but not right yet and I have no other 3tb so I don't need my parity to be any bigger then 2tb anyhow. syslog-2012-10-24latest.txt disk7.txt parity.txt

I'll try to make this short. I recently moved and was extremely careful of my server when doing so, as I always am. I left it unplugged for about 3 weeks. I plugged it in two days ago and stared to watch some shows. I checked the unraid interface and everything was good (all green). Last night I checked the interface and saw my parity drive red and disabled. I tried to update the parity but when it tried I just got tons of write errors and then it would give up. I decided to power down and check the cables. Powered up and one of my other drives went missing. Powered down got that drive back but lost another. Long story short, I now my parity drive is invalid and a data drive is now showing as unformatted. Question is, now what do I do? Is the data still on the unformatted drive? I've attached some of my system logs. One had a lot of repeating unimportant data so I trimmed it. Currently the server is powered down at home. I can get a current log when I get home and post it syslog-2012-10-23.txt syslog-2012-10-24.txt

Had to reboot my server and when it came back up I had a drive come up with a blue ball. Got the syslog then rebooted and it came up as a red ball. Quick look at the smart report says its ok but I'm unsure if that is true. I added the drive back to the array and its currently rebuilding data. I should probably run a long smart test report on that drive I assume? I've attached my syslog and smart report taken from the drive, the failed drive is sdi. Thanks for your help syslog-2012-08-09.txt smart_report.txt