Tight_wad

Thanks, but I did do a shut down with out change. I also forgot to mention, I have 2 unRaids, tower and tower2. Both are on 4.7 with unmenu. This problem is with both. Only have a couple of packages installed. mysql on one email notification on both, still getting daily emails of status. another package I believe that goes with the notification. Don't remember any others, can check tonight.

Just started having issues with accessing unmenu with "tower". Can't use "tower:8080" either. Have to use ip "192.168.xxx.xxx:8080" to get main page. Can't navigate from there without changing tower to ip upon failure. When it fails to access, give a message "the server refused connection" I'm still using 4.7 with unmenu 1.6. Accessing with windows 7 computer. Can't see anything in my syslog to indicate issue, doesn't log anything when connection is refused. Besides possible syslog any ideas? Any help would be great.

Thanks I am working on contacting our software provider to answer this. Thanks for that link, that will help too!

Not related to my unRAID systems, but thought I would ask. My business computer system had a motherboard failure. I am told that I must find the exact same one to get the unix system back running. So, I am looking for a Tekram brand motherboard. Model # P6F 40K-A5 If anyone could help direct me to where I might locate one, I would really appreciate it.

Me too. Finally just uninstalled it for now.

Using openelec pre eden build r9963 on 3 different zbox hd-id11. Running mysql and shared thumbs. No real issues and works great. Windows Eden on my backend computer. Not as happy with it, but I don't watch anything on it, just for working on adding movies and such.

That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, works perfect for me to make minor changes to my movies.

Thanks, I will give that one a try.

I would like to make some manual changes to the data with out having to refresh the movies in XBMC. Is there a program that I can install either on my Windows Vista or on the unRAID itself and be able to access the Mysql database that I setup for XBMC? I used the unMENU package to install mysql on the unRAID ver. 4.7. I have try Mysql workbench, but could not gain access to the tables. It would recognized the database, but nothing else. Prior to using mysql, I would use the XWMM web interface to access the XBMC original database, but I don't think that they have made it work with mysql.

Seems to be issues with skp-name-resolve in the my.cnf if installed as I did with the unmenu package. Referring to your thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=18417.msg167366#msg167366. Will try doing the same on mine and see how it goes.

I finally did mine over the weekend. Originally I was going to install a 30gig ssd as cache last week. That ended up being a total nightmare! UnRAID was recognizing it as a 32gig instead of 30gig that it is. I didn't realize it until the next day when I was going to do the mysql. I was having drive errors in my syslog every 3 seconds and it also showed HPA. Since the forum was down at that time, I had no clue what to do about it. So, I decided to scrape the ssd cache idea, and just use one of my regular drives and not cache. Oh well enough whining. Everything went fine over the weekend. Using unRAID 4.7, Openelec ion 64 build r9963 on 2 of my zboxes, and windows eden rc 2. I didn't follow all the directions at the beginning of this thread completely, from what I have read, they are a little dated. Fine for Dharma, but not for the Eden builds. I totally skip for now the swap file. Not sure if I will need it or not. In all the messing around that I have done so far, I would say that I won't. I did this CREATE USER 'xbmc' IDENTIFIED BY 'xbmc'; GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'xbmc'; Didn't do this CREATE database xbmc_video; CREATE database xbmc_music; Used this for my advancedsettings.xml, first with Windows computer. <videodatabase> <type>mysql</type> <host>***.***.***.***</host> <port>3306</port> <user>xbmc</user> <pass>xbmc</pass> </videodatabase> <pathsubstitution> <substitute> <from>special://masterprofile/sources.xml</from> <to>smb://***.***.***.***/xbmc/userdata/sources.xml/</to> </substitute> <substitute> <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from> <to>smb://***.***.***.***/xbmc/userdata/thumbnails/</to> </substitute> </pathsubstitution> I then copied my Thumbnails folder and my sources.xml to the unRAID and then did my import on my windows xbmc from the export file that I had created. Everything good, mysql database populated just fine. Don't do it this way. Let the database make them. It ended up giving me some errors on my Window XBMC and was the cause of it being so much slower than my Openelec. Did cure all my issues but some. Tested with my Windows computer, XBMC rc 2. Here is were I just about said forget it again. Slow. Extremely slow. About 30 seconds to enter my movies library. This is about the same as the last time I tried doing this. The slowness is still the Thumbnails, pathsubstitution didn't seem to be helping me. I removed the pathsubstitution for the Thumbnails, used local, and no more lag. I did try added the index's, but it had no effect that I could notice. I have since read that it is also outdated for Eden builds. use MyVideos60; ALTER TABLE movie ADD INDEX ix_idFile(idFile); ALTER TABLE movie ADD INDEX idMovie(idMovie); ALTER TABLE movie ADD INDEX idFile(idFile); I decided to proceed with the openelec's and see how the speed was with them. Using the same pathsubstitution, I found them to be faster for movie library access. Only about 18 seconds. That was a big improvement, but still too slow. Then, I got to thinking. Why am I trying to share everything that is in the Thumbnails folder when the only thing I want to share is actually in the Thumbnails/video folder. I decided to try the pathsubstitution directly on the actual video folder itself. I changed the pathsubstitution to this <pathsubstitution> <substitute> <from>special://masterprofile/sources.xml/</from> <to>smb://***.***.***.***/xbmc/userdata/sources.xml/</to> </substitute> <substitute> <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/</from> <to>smb://***.***.***.***/xbmc/userdata/thumbnails/video/</to> </substitute> </pathsubstitution> Now this really improved the access speed. Now it only takes 7 seconds to enter the movie library with my openelec's. It still not as fast as having the thumbnails local, but it is now at a speed I can live with. I can't say the same for the windows computer, it still takes about 20 seconds to load up. But since it is only for my backend work, it's not that big a deal. That's it, I'm very happy with the end results. It's definitely going to lessen my work load being able to have instant updated movie and TVshow libraries. Another good thing, though all my speed testing was done bringing up the complete movie library, we seldom do this. Normally we use the genre or the recently added, and those load up almost instantly! Might try this with a cache drive some time again, might help the write speed when stopping a movie. That is the only thing that is slower than I expected, but not too slow, it might not be worth the extra efforts.

Is there any real advantage of accessing with putty and doing MC to Move, Copy, or Delete files instead of using something like teracopy in Vista to do copy, paste and such? I get similar speeds from either one. Using Teracopy at least shows me what percent I have to go. MC doesn't. What other way could I be doing this that might be better?

Try redoing it and instead of none for the guest access type in 'none' That is what I did to have guest access on my 4.7 basic 3 disk system that has no users. It is my router address. Glad that it should not be an issue. But just wonder, if anyone else is have this happen in their syslog. Mine occur every 37 seconds. I am using it on a 4.7 unRAID basic 3 disk system.

I finally installed this on my newest unRAID server tonight. Everything went smooth, except that when I was setting it up, I type none instead of 'none' for the users so I was not able to access it through guest. I reinstalled it doing the correct 'none' with the marks and then guest work no problem. My first backup has already finished so all is good. Except I am getting syslog entries every minute or so now. Here is an example Jan 4 20:21:14 Tower2 afpd[4638]: afp_disconnect: primary reconnect succeeded Jan 4 20:21:25 Tower2 avahi-daemon[2952]: Received response from host 192.168.1.1 with invalid source port 32768 on interface 'eth0.0' (Network) Jan 4 20:22:06 Tower2 last message repeated 2 times Jan 4 20:23:23 Tower2 last message repeated 3 times Jan 4 20:24:53 Tower2 last message repeated 3 times Jan 4 20:26:23 Tower2 last message repeated 3 times Jan 4 20:27:53 Tower2 last message repeated 3 times Jan 4 20:28:06 Tower2 afpd[4635]: afp_zzz: entering extended sleep Jan 4 20:28:07 Tower2 avahi-daemon[2952]: Received response from host 192.168.1.1 with invalid source port 32768 on interface 'eth0.0' (Network) Jan 4 20:28:44 Tower2 last message repeated 2 times Jan 4 20:29:51 Tower2 last message repeated 4 times Any ideas what I need to do?

I would consider disconnecting any hard drives in the test computer if possible. I made the mistake of not doing so, and my hard drive would no longer boot windows anymore. Not that it will happen but be careful if you leave drives hooked up.

These are from my syslog that is most current, restart today doing a replacement of a 1TB drive for a 2 TB drive. Dec 22 14:48:51 Tower kernel: ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [ECEN] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:48:51 Tower kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\] (Node c14760c8), AE_NOT_FOUND (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:48:51 Tower kernel: ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table [OEMB] - 1E, should be 19 (20090903/tbutils-314) (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:48:51 Tower kernel: ACPI: I/O resource it87 [0xe85-0xe86] conflicts with ACPI region SENP [0xe85-0xe86] (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:48:51 Tower kernel: scst: ***WARNING***: Patch io_context was not applied on your kernel. SCST will be working with not the best performance. (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:48:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (6): killall -HUP smbd (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:50:37 Tower ata_id[2702]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/block/8:64' (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:50:38 Tower ata_id[2735]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/block/8:64' (Minor Issues) Dec 22 14:59:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (64): killall -HUP smbd (Minor Issues) I don't think that my drive replacement has any thing to do with them, just wondering if there anything I need to do?

My vote went to I run one or more preclear cycles, and I have never seen a drive fail which is true for new drivers that I have precleared. But not true for older drives. I have had first pass failures on some 1TB Seagates that were already out of warranty. I don't usually run anymore passes on used drive that can make it on the first one. New ones usually get 3 pass. I have also had new drives that were slow preclears on first pass, but would then run the next 2 pass at normal preclear speed.

Your second step didn't work for me. I had to run the install at root@tower:/boot# Is it going to be a problem if I did this?

First let me say "Thanks Rajahal!" for all your work putting the build info together. This is my second unRAID build. First one was the unRAID 12 drive Budget build. This time, I chose to do something a little smaller, that would be used for the rest of my family storage needs. To do this, I decided to use the microserver build from Raj's Prototype Designs with the only change being the use of different hot swap bays. This was a great build to do, and it was a fairly inexpensive one too. I had less than 250 in it, without the drives. OS at time of building: 4.7 current stable CPU: AMD Sempron 145 Motherboard: ZOTAC GF6100-E-E RAM: Kingston 2GB DDR2 800 Case: Rosewill R101-P-BK Drive Cage(s):Rosewill RX-C525 5.25" SATA Trayless Hot Swap Mobile Rack for 3.5" SATA HDD x 3 Power Supply: CORSAIR Builder Series CX430 V2 430W SATA Expansion Card(s): None at this time Cables: Include with Hot Swaps and one include with motherboard Fans: Stock case exhaust fan plus Rosewill RFA-120-BL 120mm 4 Blue LEDs LED Case Fan front intake. USB SanDisk 2GB Parity Drive: future 1TB Data Drives: future 1TB WD EADS x 2 Cache Drive: future 1TB Total Drive Capacity: Primary Use: Data storage and preclearing drives for expanding my 12 drive Budget build that I use for media server Likes: Small, cool running, and pretty lights Dislikes: Rosewell must have made some changes. My side cover doesn't have the air baffle that draws the air for the CPU fan directly from side like the pictures I had see show it having. Add Ons Used: unMENU preclear Future Plans: cache_dirs, Time machine *Future listed in drives is because right now I am running preclear on 2TB WD EADS x 2, 2TB Hitachi, 1TB WD EADS. Once the 2TB drives are done, they will be re-installed in my 12 Disk unRAID budget build and the 1TB drives will move to this one for preclearing and use. Will keep at least one hot swap bay open for preclearing use. Everything is up and running really well. Memtest went good, under 20 minutes per cycle. It runs pretty quiet, not even audible at 4 feet away. Not sure how the cooling would have been without the front case fan. When I did the build, I added the fan, and to help keep the upper hot swap drives cool, they don't have any fans, I taped off most of the side cover vents, and then add some air baffles near the lower case mount drives to help direct the air flow across the upper hot swap bays. This seems to be working well, the temps that I have while running preclear on 4 drives at the same time is 21 to 29 C with an ambient temp of 16 degress C. I will get some pic's up soon. I was so excited to go to work and fire it up for the first time, that I forgot my camera! Here are the pic's Taped side vents help create an little draw of air on the hot swap drive's vents This pic doesn't do justice to the pretty lights. Blue lights show drive in place, while the orange lights show hard drives activite, in the middle of 4 drive preclear. Interior pic shows the baffles used to redirect air flow to hot swap drives. With side cover off, you can feel a nice flow going past them. Another interior pic. Will clean up the wiring a little more. Notice that 5 drives installed. Only 4 hooked up, max number for the MB. Bottom 2 are 1TB each that will remain in place. The 3 drives in the hot swap bays are all 2TB that will be moving on to my 12 drive unRAID. future edits Mod Edit: Fixed broken URL - Raj Edited for pictures -Tight_wad

I was thinking of using SNAP to add a 30gig SSD to my system. I thought I would do 2 partitions. 1 would be used for a MySQL and Shared Thumbs for XBMC and the 2nd partition for a swapfile for unRAID. What format would I want to use for the SSD to do this?

Thanks for all that you have done. How to looks easy. Going to give it a try tonight. One question, is there a process that will be running that will need to be killed off prior to powerdown?

Thanks for the reply Swixxy! I was think, which is usually a bad thing, but here goes. Could I set up my SSD with 2 partitions and use one for the MySQL database and thumbs folder, and then use the other partition for swapfile? Seems like it would work if you can have a swapfile on the usb flash drive (not that that is the best place for thou). Another question that I have is what format should I do the SSD in? NTFS, Fat32, or rieserfs? I appreciate any help.

My wife just purchased an airbook mac, so perfect timing, but have good no clue to time machine , but told to set it up. Was going to get a mac solution but would rather use what I have. Only problem for me is, I don't know the proper procedure to use your script. Please post a little how to. Dealing with a new mac has cause a little brain damage for me!

Last time I try to do this, I had some issues and decide to hold off for a while. But since Eden will be out soon, and the nightlies for it are using the <pathsubstitution> in the advancedsettings I thought I might give MySQL a new try. I have an extra 30 gig SSD that I am doing nothing with. I was thinking that I might add it to my unRAID, and use it for a Centralized database and thumb art for XBMC. I don't have any extra room inside my case for a regular drive, but could easily fit a little 2.5 SSD. To do this, which way would be the best to add the SSD to my unRAID, as cache drive (without using the mover script), as just another disk in the array, or using the S.N.A.P. application to make it an accessible drive that is outside of my array?

I'm getting ready to start setting Mysql up on my unRaid, but have a couple questions please. How necessary is it to have a cache drive with a swapfile, for being able to use Mysql on the unRaid ? Wouldn't increasing the Ram be an option instead of using a swapfile, or am I not understanding the actual use of swapfiles? Also, is it better to have the Mysql setup on a cache drive since it is not in the array as apposed to just having it on one of the drives that is in the array?