intelligent-recliner7788

Ended up just redoing the whole thing because I couldn't really find a way to fix it.

So quick little update, turns out the clean VM was just taking its sweet sweet time to start up (>15 mins) but does actually work No clue where my old vm is getting stuck though, logs are still unhelpful sadly as they produced no new lines.

Hello all, I was tinkering with my HA instance and restarted it to apply some changes but it never came back afterwards. Unraid however, appears to thing the VM is running, showing it as started. Trying to stop it however fails every time, the VM just going back to the green play icon and saying "started" VNC fails to connect and the webui is unreachable so I can be quite sure it is not actually online. What I tried so far: reboot unraid update unraid reboot again restore snapshot from today through vm-babysitter restore older snapshot through vm-babysitter set up new homeassistant vm None of these things did anything to resolve or even alter the issue at hand. Even the new VM fails in the exact same way as the old one. No VNC, no nothing but showing as started. Not a clue what could have caused this behavior as the only thing I changed as add something to the automations.yaml file which by right shouldn't prevent the whole vm from booting. Much less an entirely separate and clean one. Old vm was set up according to this guide: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/install-home-assistant-as-a-vm-on-unraid/270195 The new one was set up through Homeassistant-inabox using the default parameters. Here's the log of my old vm when trying to start it in case there's anything helpful in there. New VM spits out a near identical log which you can find beneath this one. 2026-01-25 17:24:35.795+0000: starting up libvirt version: 11.7.0, qemu version: 9.2.3, kernel: 6.12.54-Unraid, hostname: Tower LC_ALL=C \ PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin \ HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-16-Test \ XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-16-Test/.local/share \ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-16-Test/.cache \ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-16-Test/.config \ /usr/local/sbin/qemu \ -name guest=Test,debug-threads=on \ -S \ -object '{"qom-type":"secret","id":"masterKey0","format":"raw","file":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-16-Test/master-key.aes"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}' \ -blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-pflash0-storage"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/1577d354-4b9f-4fc5-b6a5-32a7fdc448ac_VARS-pure-efi.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash1-storage","read-only":false}' \ -machine pc-q35-7.2,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,mem-merge=off,memory-backend=pc.ram,pflash0=libvirt-pflash0-format,pflash1=libvirt-pflash1-storage,hpet=off,acpi=on \ -accel kvm \ -cpu host,migratable=on,topoext=on,host-cache-info=on,l3-cache=off \ -m size=4194304k \ -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"pc.ram","size":4294967296}' \ -overcommit mem-lock=off \ -smp 4,sockets=1,dies=1,clusters=1,cores=2,threads=2 \ -uuid 1577d354-4b9f-4fc5-b6a5-32a7fdc448ac \ -no-user-config \ -nodefaults \ -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=44,server=on,wait=off \ -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \ -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew \ -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay \ -no-shutdown \ -boot strict=on \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":8,"chassis":1,"id":"pci.1","bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":9,"chassis":2,"id":"pci.2","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":10,"chassis":3,"id":"pci.3","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x2"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":11,"chassis":4,"id":"pci.4","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x3"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-ehci1","id":"usb","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x7"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci1","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":0,"bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x7"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci2","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":2,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci3","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":4,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x2"}' \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-serial-pci","id":"virtio-serial0","bus":"pci.2","addr":"0x0"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/mnt/user/domains/haos_ova-13.1.S20260125143027qcow2","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false}}' \ -blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-1-format","read-only":false,"discard":"ignore","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"driver":"qcow2","file":"libvirt-1-storage","backing":null}' \ -device '{"driver":"ide-hd","bus":"ide.2","drive":"libvirt-1-format","id":"sata0-0-2","bootindex":1,"write-cache":"on","serial":"vdisk1"}' \ -netdev '{"type":"tap","fd":"45","id":"hostnet0"}' \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-net","netdev":"hostnet0","id":"net0","mac":"52:54:00:78:54:ed","bus":"pci.1","addr":"0x0"}' \ -chardev pty,id=charserial0 \ -device '{"driver":"isa-serial","chardev":"charserial0","id":"serial0","index":0}' \ -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,fd=43,server=on,wait=off \ -device '{"driver":"virtserialport","bus":"virtio-serial0.0","nr":1,"chardev":"charchannel0","id":"channel0","name":"org.qemu.guest_agent.0"}' \ -device '{"driver":"usb-tablet","id":"input0","bus":"usb.0","port":"3"}' \ -audiodev '{"id":"audio1","driver":"none"}' \ -vnc 0.0.0.0:0,websocket=5700,share=ignore,audiodev=audio1 \ -k en-us \ -device '{"driver":"qxl-vga","id":"video0","max_outputs":1,"ram_size":67108864,"vram_size":67108864,"vram64_size_mb":63,"vgamem_mb":64,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1e"}' \ -global ICH9-LPC.noreboot=off \ -watchdog-action reset \ -device '{"driver":"usb-host","hostdevice":"/dev/bus/usb/001/005","id":"hostdev0","bus":"usb.0","port":"1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"usb-host","hostdevice":"/dev/bus/usb/001/002","id":"hostdev1","bus":"usb.0","port":"2"}' \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-balloon-pci","id":"balloon0","bus":"pci.3","addr":"0x0"}' \ -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \ -msg timestamp=on 2026-01-25 17:24:35.795+0000: Domain id=16 is tainted: high-privileges char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 (label charserial0)2026-01-25 17:15:28.044+0000: starting up libvirt version: 11.7.0, qemu version: 9.2.3, kernel: 6.12.54-Unraid, hostname: Tower LC_ALL=C \ PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin \ HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-15-HomeASSistant \ XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-15-HomeASSistant/.local/share \ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-15-HomeASSistant/.cache \ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-15-HomeASSistant/.config \ /usr/local/sbin/qemu \ -name guest=HomeASSistant,debug-threads=on \ -S \ -object '{"qom-type":"secret","id":"masterKey0","format":"raw","file":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-15-HomeASSistant/master-key.aes"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}' \ -blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-pflash0-storage"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/bf7b21b6-ee0e-4e79-86d0-ee65241dad2c_VARS-pure-efi.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash1-storage","read-only":false}' \ -machine pc-q35-9.2,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,mem-merge=off,memory-backend=pc.ram,pflash0=libvirt-pflash0-format,pflash1=libvirt-pflash1-storage,hpet=off,acpi=on \ -accel kvm \ -cpu host,migratable=on,topoext=on,host-cache-info=on,l3-cache=off \ -m size=2097152k \ -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"pc.ram","size":2147483648}' \ -overcommit mem-lock=off \ -smp 2,sockets=1,dies=1,clusters=1,cores=1,threads=2 \ -uuid bf7b21b6-ee0e-4e79-86d0-ee65241dad2c \ -no-user-config \ -nodefaults \ -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=44,server=on,wait=off \ -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \ -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew \ -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay \ -no-shutdown \ -boot strict=on \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":8,"chassis":1,"id":"pci.1","bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":9,"chassis":2,"id":"pci.2","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":10,"chassis":3,"id":"pci.3","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x2"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":11,"chassis":4,"id":"pci.4","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x3"}' \ -device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":12,"chassis":5,"id":"pci.5","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x4"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-ehci1","id":"usb","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x7"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci1","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":0,"bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x7"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci2","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":2,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x1"}' \ -device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci3","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":4,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x2"}' \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-serial-pci","id":"virtio-serial0","bus":"pci.2","addr":"0x0"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/mnt/user/domains/HomeASSistant/vdisk1.img","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false}}' \ -blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-1-format","read-only":false,"cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"driver":"qcow2","file":"libvirt-1-storage","backing":null}' \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-blk-pci","bus":"pci.3","addr":"0x0","drive":"libvirt-1-format","id":"virtio-disk2","bootindex":1,"write-cache":"on","serial":"vdisk1"}' \ -netdev '{"type":"tap","fd":"45","id":"hostnet0"}' \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-net","netdev":"hostnet0","id":"net0","mac":"ac:87:a3:f1:c8:56","bus":"pci.1","addr":"0x0"}' \ -chardev pty,id=charserial0 \ -device '{"driver":"isa-serial","chardev":"charserial0","id":"serial0","index":0}' \ -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,fd=43,server=on,wait=off \ -device '{"driver":"virtserialport","bus":"virtio-serial0.0","nr":1,"chardev":"charchannel0","id":"channel0","name":"org.qemu.guest_agent.0"}' \ -device '{"driver":"usb-tablet","id":"input0","bus":"usb.0","port":"1"}' \ -audiodev '{"id":"audio1","driver":"none"}' \ -vnc 0.0.0.0:0,websocket=5700,audiodev=audio1 \ -k en-us \ -device '{"driver":"qxl-vga","id":"video0","max_outputs":1,"ram_size":67108864,"vram_size":67108864,"vram64_size_mb":0,"vgamem_mb":16,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1e"}' \ -global ICH9-LPC.noreboot=off \ -watchdog-action reset \ -device '{"driver":"virtio-balloon-pci","id":"balloon0","bus":"pci.4","addr":"0x0"}' \ -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \ -msg timestamp=on 2026-01-25 17:15:28.044+0000: Domain id=15 is tainted: high-privileges char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0)Any help would be much appreciated as I am thoroughly stumped by this issue.

Hm, the file was only 2 GB in size but I guess it being a pretty budget tier SSD it might just be that. Would certainly explain the very brief burst of higher writes at the start. As for it getting tired, the drive isn't that old yet, bought it about a year ago. Not entirely sure how getting hammered by unraid would affect the lifespan though. By comparison, the crucial drive is about half a year older and still doing fine at least in terms of writes. All in all, I guess a solution would be to get a new drive and test with that after removing the old drive from the array. Wouldn't be too inconvenient as I do need a new drive for my main PC anyway.

Whoops, forgot to include those. Here they are tower-diagnostics-20250709-1853.zip

Hello all, been having some strange issue with one specific HDD in my cache only writing at ~140 MB/s and thus dragging down writes to the entire cache. I've run a test with iperf to ensure I haven't somehow dropped to gigabit ethernet speeds. Next I ran hdparm to check writes to the individual drives in the cache and confirmed that one drive in particular is being slow Also confirmed the issue using a plain ol' file transfer over the network. Other things I did: Rebooted and updated Unraid, move sdh drive from its own Sata connector to my HBA, checked manufacturer speck to make sure it can actually do the usual SSD speeds, checked SMART and checked everything is plugged in correctly None of which showed any significant change in write speeds. Interestingly, reads from the cache are fine, giving me some 700MB/s in windows The share is set to use Cache mainly and only fall back to the array should it fill up. Current utilization is 52% and minimum free space is 10 MB so this shouldn't cause this issue either. Sleuthing the forums and search engines hasn't really given me any answers either which has brought me here to ask if anyone else here has had issues like this. As is customary I've also attached a syslog in case it helps. tower-syslog-20250709-1635.zip

Been a bit longer because I did have a random server hang overnight but one reboot fixed that too and it's been rock solid since. Makes me wonder what caused the plugin to create sigterm events but oh well. As long as it's gone now

Uninstalled the plugin and updated to 6.12.10, so far it's looking stable. Will wait and see if it manages to run through the night and then get back to you but fingers crossed!

Heya, since updating to 6.12.x I've been having this issue of my unraid server powering down with no discernible reason after a couple of minutes. Looking at the syslog I notice that it seems to be a graceful shutdown as it receives a sigterm signal from somewhere, can't tell where though. The issue doesn't reliably occur on 6.11.5 which is what I have been using as a fallback until recently. I've attached a diagnostics zip below. Happened in the syslog-previous. tower-diagnostics-20240619-1755.zip