JonathanM

I use firefox all the time, never had issues. The noVNC for VM's works fine for me as well.

So the apps that do have the install button give an error?

WAG without looking or more info, but I'm guessing the install button is missing because of compatibility with the version of Unraid you are on? Maybe go to tools, update OS, and select the next branch to install 6.10rc8 and see how that works for you. BTW, preclear is kind of a red headed stepchild, as it's not really needed for most people, the issue it solved has been taken care of internally by Unraid for MANY (10ish?) years, so the only use is really just for extended testing, which can be accomplished many other ways.

That normally means an issue connecting or authenticating with your VPN provider. Post the supervisord log file, be sure you redact credentials.

Why, exactly, would you want to do this? There are many reasons NOT to, and very few reasons to do it.

I recommend creating a permanent "utility" VM with all the toys and tools installed on its vdisk, then temporarily attach the vdisks you need to operate on as secondary disks. Much easier to manage boot order, and almost no chance of accidentally booting the target vdisk with the wrong XML by mistake. Plus, you can install quite the array of solutions, you aren't locked into just gparted.

No. Any physical event that effected your Unraid machine could wipe out your backup. Physical separation of your backup from your main data is good, the more separation the better. If you can manage to convince a friend to keep the machine at their house, and pay them a little bit for power and internet, that's the best backup. Ideally you would remotely wake the machine, send an updated backup, then shut it down. That's rather complicated at someone else's house, but easily doable in another room of your house.

Click the words docker run.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/123132-am-i-just-expecting-the-wrong-capability-from-unraid/?do=findComment&comment=1122528

What happens if you stop all the containers in that group, update them, then restart them in the correct order?

Some expanders have power connectors and don't even need to be connected to a slot at all, it's just there to provide a convenient mounting location and power if needed.

please attach a plain text, not docx, of the supervisord log, be sure to redact credentials.

The new font is perfect as far as I am concerned. I had my display set at 90% previously to get the look I wanted, now it's just right at 100%. Hopefully it ticks all the boxes for everyone else, it's a keeper for me at least.

I already told you all my servers have 0KB set, I'm not trying to convince you. However, I do think it would reduce the amount of posts complaining about getting backed into a corner with free space. I think the users that care enough to install FCP deserve to see a message, they can either fix it, ignore it, or complain about it.🤣 I believe it truly is a "Common Problem".

Read the cache : prefer section of the help, see if that explains things better. If it doesn't, please ask for clarification.

I don't think there is any intelligence applied, it just reads what the motherboard reports via DMI, so you would need to talk to your motherboard vendor about their BIOS reporting incorrect values.

That's ok, I doubt it's ever been set on a huge number of machines, for 2 reasons. 1st, and this is my excuse, I OCD about which files are where, and manually move items to different drives to satisfy my need to keep the drives as tidy as possible. If you never allow a drive to even get close to full, minimum free space is never an issue. 2nd, and this is the one that bites most users, is ignorance of what it does and how it does it, and how important it is. 50GB sounds reasonable to me as a value to set as a default. I think it's wise to leave a fair bit more free to allow file system checks room to work well, but what I think is prudent others will find wasteful. Maybe FCP can bitch about 0KB? If we have a good FAQ entry to point to, the onslaught of posts should be somewhat manageable.

You are right, I don't think I've EVER seen or recommended that someone set minimum free space to be 0 to solve some issue or change an unwanted behaviour. I think the problem is finding a default value that will upset the least amount of people. If Unraid were a huge company, I'd be all over suggesting a setup wizard, that walked you through all the settings and explained them screen by screen, with various suggestions for optimizing based on usage, media server, office documents, backup server, etc. However, since the company resources are stretched as it is, and I'm not willing to volunteer to program it, the setup wizard will have to remain a dream for now.

I don't like the idea of trusting your data to old "may be broken" hard drives. Unraid requires the entire capacity of all drives in the parity array to be read without error to reconstruct a failed drive, so it's never a good idea to use questionable drives on purpose. That bit me and caused data loss over 10 years ago, and I've never forgotten how bad it felt to have an old empty drive fail during the rebuild of one of my "good" drives that unexpectedly died. You really need to figure out a way to keep those qnap drives as backup, so that if something happens you can just redo the copy. Unraid or any RAID is not a replacement for proper backups.

Try SSH. If you can log in that way, type diagnostics and it should create the zip file on the flash drive to upload here.

Each data drive and pool is a distinct file system that doesn't allow single files to span multiple drives or pools. You need to set the minimum free space so Unraid knows to select the next preferred destination after that free space is reached. Alternatively you could set that specific share to go directly to the array instead of going to the cache first and then moving later. If you are regularly filling the cache pool, you probably would be better off going directly to the array, or massively expanding the cache pool size.

There is a way to do USB over ethernet, such that each end has an IP address and can pass through routers, but I forget where I saw it. What you have, and what I run as well, is USB over CAT5 point to point. It's really just a pair of dumb transceivers, that attempts to clean up and impedance match the signal enough to use over a long run of network cable. The adapters I have don't have a provision for power, so what I did was make sure to have a powered USB hub at one or both ends of the run, depending on what I am connecting. I have runs to 3 different spots in the house with monitors, keyboards, and mice. The HDMI is split with a monoprice blackbird amplifier, and all the keyboards and mice feed back to a single VM. That way I can play media or browse simultaneously all over the house. If your 5v adapter was at the zstick end, it's possible that the ground leg on that circuit wasn't bonded properly to the circuit at the server end, causing a constant trickle of power through the whole USB circuit. Or the 5v adapter was poorly designed or faulty. In any case, if it runs fine without the power supply, great, but if you start getting glitches, try using a powered USB hub at the server end or the device end instead of the adapters native supply and see if it helps.

Yes, but for some reason it crashes hard on some people's hardware. The 6.10 rc versions have IP Vlan, which seems to solve the mac vlan crashes for those people. You can always roll the dice and see if it works for you.

If you have daily health reports from the server, regular (typically monthly) parity checks, and pay attention to warning signs by acting promptly, then single parity should serve you fine. If you are the kind of person to let things go as long as they seem to be working fine, and only act when there are obvious signs of trouble, then 2 parity drives could possibly save your bacon. There is no way to accurately predict how and when a drive will fail 100% of the time, many times there are warning signs, and Unraid will try its best to keep you from losing data, but it's up to you to stay on top of your drive health. An Unraid server can continue to serve files seamlessly with as many bad drives as you have parity, but exceed that tolerance by waiting for another failure and you will lose data.