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http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/slackware/a/infozip-6.0-i486-1.txz

I presume this is because you don't have zip installed and that would be a pre-requisite for powerdown-1.02 to zip the syslog.

Hi speeding_ant, until it gets fixed I guess it should be possible to start the webserver from the command line (...and the go script)? If this is a fair assumption, could you please help me out what would be the command to run from to go script?

Many thanks speeding_ant!

Hey speeding_ant, Amazing work on all these. Thank you very much. Just upgraded today from 4.7 and started to use SimpleFeatures. I've got everything up and running and works great. I only have one small issue being that the Web Server always comes up as stopped during reboot. Can this be because I have the www directory on a non-array apps drive which I only mount from the go script, while SimpleFeatures kicks in earlier so it doesn't find the www dir yet?

Probably nobody cares, but I would support this approach.

Many thanks for picking this up Tom! I am willing to summarize you what is needed, but can you advise what approach should we take to support different cards? I can tell you exactly what is needed to support my card (...and alxscott's), but there are plenty of cards out there. Shall we add only those cards/adapters we know about or add all (that would be a bigger footprint impact)?

+1 Shall we get the core hardware working before we start bolting on extras? Save it for 5.1? Well, PPP is not quite core either. We can argue on vmxnet driver, but I wouldn't consider this to be core either. My request doesn't require development and can be done in no time, just like PPP and vmxnet driver, so wouldn't delay anything for you. Just because you don't use something, don't jump on someone who does.

What exactly do I need to configure in the kernel? Do you want slackware's ppp package as well? If you are taking requests of kernel modules, having the vmxnet3 NIC driver would be nice. Added it for -rc2. Tom, I fear to ask, but seeing you in good mood I give it a go: Would it be possible by any chance to have Multimedia, Video for Linux and DVB for Linux modules in their as well to make it easy to run TVHeadend? Currently this requires massive customization and recompiling the kernel. I don't think this would generate any overhead (other than the slightly bigger package file) to those who don't use this, would it?

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea. Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server. Either: -Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS or, if you MUST have only one physical box -run VMWare ESX Well, 'REALLY bad idea' is too strong to say here, I would say. Including those modules wouldn't harm so much. On the other hand there are more important priorities to focus on. My thoughts: (and I haven't looked into the unraid kernel config much) -if the unraid kernel is compiled staticly (without module support enabled) then I don't want it in the kernel potentially pushing it out of cache pages -if the unraid kernel is compiled with modules enabled, then it's trivially easy to load a slackware VM with the same kernel revision, build the modules in question, then copy them to the USB stick and load them from the go script Either way it's apparent he has limited hours to work on unraid and thus should not spread features thin. If limetech was a 30 person team, then sure, have a specialized version for everything you can think of! unRAID uses modules. It is not statically compiled, although there are some modules compiled into the kernel for various file systems. In fact, the "md" driver itself is a loadable module. You are correct, just need to set up a dev environment with the same Slackware release, use the .config as supplied by lime-technology as a starting point, and build whatever module you like. Joe L. Hmmm. I know how to do this and shared it with the community as well: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Tvheadend_in_unRAID I was just saying it would be good to have those modules by default and that I cannot understand statements like "REALLY bad" idea for something which potentially doesn't harm. Don't see why it was a problem for you and why you can only imagine the support for these things in "specialized versions". Anyway, I am not gonna pushing on this and as being said I also don't think this is a high priority at the moment. It's definitely not.

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea. Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server. Either: -Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS or, if you MUST have only one physical box -run VMWare ESX Well, 'REALLY bad idea' is too strong to say here, I would say. Including those modules wouldn't harm so much. On the other hand there are more important priorities to focus on.

Right after the upgrade I was able to set back the "classic" theme which I liked more than this new one. This one is with too big fonts and less densed, so less information fits into a screen. Today when logged in I am back on the new theme and the theme chooser disappeard from the profile settings. Has this forum been feature disabled after a while?

The first one 'installpgk' was indeed a typo, I corrected this. Thanks for pointing out. The other one was not a typo, but a potential 'bug' in the command. I think I corrected this as well (I have a separate apps drive, that's why I didn't experience the issue). The option '-C' is doing something different than '-c'. I understand your permission issue now. Maybe you should try to run tvheadend in the name of the user (i don't have user level security, hence I am not experiencing this).

Well, this is a step-by-step guide. It works just by copy-pasting the commands and doing the neccessary ammendments according to what tuner card you have. Since you have the same card as me, you can really just do the copy-pasting excercise without any thinking. I am doing the same when I need to reinstall for any reason. There is no typo, no corrections needed to the wiki instructions (not sure what you were referring to previously). Also I don't really understand what is your status now. Are the live TV and also the recording working now, you just cannot read/watch the recordings?

I presume the issue is caused by the firmware file you use.

I see this regularly on disk upgrades too. Would be great if this could be fixed in the 4.7 line.

OK, finally I pulled out and replaced disk1 (sda) which reported 1840 read error and 76 pending sector. Then the followings happened: - I ran preclear on it and preclear reported 1 pending sector after post read (so -75 pending sector in total) - I ran preclear once more and then it reported 0 pending sector But there was no reallocated sectors reported. So shall I trust this disk? I presume no, but could anyone please explain what could be this (pending is not going to be reallocated at the end)?

My unRAID box logged serious errors during upgrading one of the disks (1.5TB->2.0TB). The errors were logged not on the new disk, but on another (massive read and parity errors). Syslog and smart report (short self check didn't finisih) on disk1 attached. unRAID reported 1067 Parity errors after finished rebuilding the new disk (which is strange in itself, since this was a disk rebuild from parity). I presume this means I have to consider the just upgraded disk8 (sdf) as corrupt and disk1 (sda) as a disk to be RMAd(Current_Pending_Sector=76; Raw_Read_Error_Rate=1840)? Is that a fair statement? Also, how can I recover from this situation? I still have the old disk8 with all the data on it. Shall I put this back, reset the array and initiate a new parity? ...and shall I remove disk1 from the array to avoid corruption and try to recover the data from it outside of the array? Thank you! Syslog: http://pastebin.com/qtScYvHm smartreport-sda-2011-09-18.txt

Hi WeeboTech, that solution works perfectly for a while, but then all of a sudden Tvheadend starts logging in the name of 'nss_wins'. I couldn't find out what is the trigger of that. I tried to do some search on this and found some forum posts about this issue/bug, but couldn't figure out any solution to my case. Did you experienced anything like that or do you know any potential solution for that? Thank you in advance!

Thank you for your time and efforts!

Hi Joe L., thank you for your response. I am also not doing any extraordinary hacking when I invoke the command, in fact I am also only doing a couple of excludes and nothing else. However I have 4GB RAM and a diverse dir/file structure. Cache_dirs is working perfectly, and the initial find stops after a while, and then there is no issue with shuting down the array. But this "after a while" for the initial scan takes about 5-15 minutes (never measured that) and at my friend who really has an insane structure it is more 15-25 minutes. This means if I want to stop the array for whatever reason in this initial scan, then I have to telnet in and kill the find command(s) in order to do that. So based on this experience that this period can be even 25 minutes, I thought it would come more handy if cache_dirs -q was doing that kill in its own.

Hi Joe L., Was it that dumb question that you don't have any feedback on it or you missed this one? Cheers!

Hi Joe L., not sure this has been already brought up by someone, but I think it hasn't. When you stop cache_dirs with 'cache_dirs -q' it is only terminating the cache_dirs instance running in the background, but it is not killing any running (ongoing) 'find' command. So when you try to stop the array soon after you started up cache_dirs, the running 'find' command(s) can keep drive(s) busy even for longer time, resulting a long 'unmounting' on the unRAID interface unless you kill the 'find(s)' manually. Could killing of 'find' command(s) be added to 'cache_dirs -q' so that it can shut down gracefully? Thank you for your feedback in advance.

Sorry for being offtopic, but http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Tvheadend_in_unRAID

Indeed very impressive build! Slightly offtopic questions: 10 degrees ambient temp? Is this in your living room? That I would feel cold to spend most of my time at home.