DanielCoffey

I have not found which file got corrupted on my machine but I decided to take a fresh USB stick, use the LimeTech unRAID USB Creator tool to make a new 6.4.0 install and request a Trial key. My original drive is back at 6.3.5 which has allowed me to make a note of my drive order so once Parity has rebuilt, I am free to perform the task of reinstalling all the plugins and dockers (bleargh).

I have reverted to 6.3.5 by copying the contents of previous to root and rebooted. The configuration (apart from my two cache drives) was immediately picked up properly and the Plus license was correctly identified. I could start the server without errors once I had reassigned my cache drives. I do however think there is file corruption on this drive since Win10 reports it but cannot identify what it is to fix it. When I copied the contents of the USB stick to another spare one, the file corruption went with it. I do have a clean USB stick and will do a clean install and migrate the license key. I will mark this issue as Solved since it was not a blacklist problem.

Thanks but it looks like the UEFI issue was a red herring. I renamed EFI- to EFI, popped the original flash drive back in and rebooted. I could see the difference in the shell since the typeface appears differently between Legacy and UEFI. I still got the error spam. I think, although I could see UEFI prefixing the flash drive in the BIOS, the presence of the EFI- folder shows I was booting in Legacy after all. How much of the syslog can I post with its errors without giving any personal information away?

I have just transferred my entire UNRAID flash drive over to a new one in preparation for requesting a new key, ran make_bootable.bat and tried to bring unRAID up. I get the same thing... loads of error spam in the log and no GUID detected so the new flash drive is reported as blacklisted. Next I will try the USB device on one of the rear panel sockets instead of hanging off a USB 3.0 cable inside the case (although 6.3.5 was perfectly happy booting off that). I wonder if it is something to do with UEFI? The 6.3.5 version was booting off UEFI because I have a SAS card which takes ages to boot if Legacy is used. Maybe 6.4.0 is confused by this? === EDIT : moving the USB to the rear port instead of the internal cable made no difference.

Odd... Win10 did detect an issue with the USB stick but then found nothing to correct when I asked it to. Ejecting and reinserting the drive in Win10 and the issue did not reappear. The drive appears readable as normal. I put the drive back into the unRAID box and there was no change - it still booted, spewed errors and reported it was blacklisted. jonathanm has suggested I contact Tom as a duplicate GUID may have been registered since I originally purchased that USB drive. I do have good quality spares fortunately.

OK, I can certainly do that... but any idea what might have happened since the machine was working perfectly on 6.3.5?

I have been happily using 6.3.5 on the system in my signature and today decided to update to 6.4.0 using the "Download Now" link on the bottom of the Main page. It successfully downloaded the update and advised that I should reboot. I stopped the server, selected reboot and then ended up at a blank unRAID screen with no devices. In the banner area at the top was the message "unRAID server - flash device blacklisted". I have tried capturing diagnostics to attach but nothing is being saved to my downloads folder in Firefox. I can however view the syslog and it is spamming errors like these... Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: cannot execute "/bin/sh" Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jan 14 14:55:32 NAS-PLEX init: no more processes left in this runlevel Jan 14 14:55:33 NAS-PLEX emhttpd: Unregistered - flash device blacklisted (EBLACKLISTED2) Any ideas on how to start resolving this?

For those of us with Plex Pass, do we just stop the docker, edit the XML, edit the VERSION field and change it from latest to plexpass, apply and restart? When I do that it seems to keep showing linuxserver/plex:latest on the Docker screen.

Actually the movies were not bought on the Apple store - they are my own. I hold all the MKV files in an archive but took the decision to use ffmpeg to convert them to a more Apple-friendly format up front so we don't have to transcode every single time they are watched. The NAS is capable of transcoding up to two streams at a time so I can test using the MKV rather than the M4V version to see if I made a transcoding error. When we watch a movie I can see on the Plex UI that the video is streaming direct but the audio is being transcoded from 5.1 (or whatever) down to stereo which is all our TV will handle at the moment.

I am having random loss of audio when playing movies. It has been reported a couple of months ago on the Plex Support forums without resolution and I wondered if there was a way I could work round the issue to be able to use Plex? Yes, I am a Plex Pass user. The symptoms are that I will start a movie on the Apple TV, everything will start as expected with video and audio playback then, within the first ten minutes the audio will drop out but the video will continue. If I press pause and then play on the remote, the audio will immediately resume at whatever place the video had got to. Then, after a few more minutes the audio will drop off again. It does not appear to be dependent on which movie I watch... it seems to be all of them. It does not appear to be at a fixed interval. All hardware components are ethernet, not wifi. Since my wife is disabled and cannot operate the remote herself, it makes the app useless. Because of her illness we had taken a couple of months break in watching films in her library so the issue has appeared with either a TV OS update, the Plex App for Apple TV or the PMS docker itself in the past two months. I would really appreciate help finding a work around while the Plex team continue to look into it. This is the thread on the Plex Support forum. It has just spread to a second page... https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/288620/apple-tv-audio-stops-randomly/p1 NAS : unRAID 6.3.5 in my signature Docker : linuxserver/plex:latest PMS Version : Plex Pass 1.10.1.4602 Apple TV : 4th Gen Plex App : 1.20.1 4th December 2017 The movies that drop the audio are in the following format... <MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="1" librarySectionTitle="Movies" librarySectionUUID="5671a3cf-9bfb-4ba2-8cb4-368abfd574cc" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1513172439"> <Video ratingKey="192" key="/library/metadata/192" guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt0120917?lang=en" librarySectionID="1" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/1" librarySectionTitle="Movies" studio="Walt Disney Pictures" type="movie" title="The Emperor's New Groove" titleSort="Emperor's New Groove" contentRating="G" summary="Kuzco is a self-centered emperor who summons Pacha from a village and to tell him that his home will be destroyed to make room for Kuzco's new summer home. Kuzco's advisor, Yzma, tries to poison Kuzco and accidentally turns him into a llama, who accidentally ends up in Pacha's village. Pacha offers to help Kuzco if he doesn't destroy his house, and so they form an unlikely partnership." rating="7.0" viewOffset="411871" viewCount="7" lastViewedAt="1513528694" year="2000" tagline="It's All About.....ME!" thumb="/library/metadata/192/thumb/1505178281" art="/library/metadata/192/art/1505178281" duration="4715744" originallyAvailableAt="2000-12-09" addedAt="1461776848" updatedAt="1505178281" chapterSource="media"> <Media videoResolution="1080" id="206" duration="4715744" bitrate="27135" width="1920" height="1080" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="6" audioCodec="ac3" videoCodec="h264" container="mp4" videoFrameRate="24p" optimizedForStreaming="0" has64bitOffsets="1" videoProfile="high"> <Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="265" key="/library/parts/265/1461776585/file.m4v" duration="4715744" file="/MyMedia/Movies/HD/The Emperor's New Groove (2000)/The Emperor's New Groove (2000).m4v" size="15995437402" container="mp4" has64bitOffsets="1" hasChapterTextStream="1" optimizedForStreaming="0" videoProfile="high"> <Stream id="641" streamType="1" default="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="26741" language="English" languageCode="eng" bitDepth="8" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" frameRate="23.976" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="1080" level="41" profile="high" refFrames="4" streamIdentifier="1" width="1920"/> <Stream id="642" streamType="2" selected="1" default="1" codec="ac3" index="1" channels="6" bitrate="448" language="English" languageCode="eng" audioChannelLayout="5.1(side)" samplingRate="48000" streamIdentifier="2"/> </Part> </Media> </Video> </MediaContainer> I have also attached a Plex Log. The last audio drop would have been withing five minutes of the creation of the log. I am considering trying the original MKV version of the affected movies (2 out of 2 tried so far) rather than the Apple converted version that I have here but beyond that I am totally out of ideas. Plex Media Server Logs_2017-12-17_16-41-11.zip

Just what I needed, thanks. I have Krusader working again on 8081.

Oh, I see. Thanks. It may be because I have opened FTP from the server within my local network. What port would you advise using as I don't have experience of this.

I had Krusader installed on my 6.3.5 server, changed to dual parity, dual cache and added drives and got "Execution Error : Server Error" from my Krusader docker. I uninstalled the Docker and pulled another copy from the repo and got this... Pulling image: sparklyballs/krusader:latest IMAGE ID [latest]: Pulling from sparklyballs/krusader. IMAGE ID [a3ed95caeb02]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 32 B. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [a4656c904b12]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 63 MB. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [707a1369b69a]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 70 KB. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [2dcca790c489]: Pulling fs layer. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [ae857e8dd13c]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 11 KB. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [f441328fb96f]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 30 MB. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [259ad9d9b203]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 74 MB. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [2f0eb3e910fc]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 217 MB. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [cad18da7c7ff]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 337 B. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [5932ac7b31c0]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 120 MB. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. Status: Downloaded newer image for sparklyballs/krusader:latest TOTAL DATA PULLED: 504 MB Command: root@localhost:# /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.docker.manager/scripts/docker run -d --name="Krusader" --net="bridge" -e TZ="Europe/London" -e HOST_OS="unRAID" -e "WIDTH"="1420" -e "HEIGHT"="720" -p 8080:8080/tcp -v "/mnt/":"/UNRAID":rw -v "/mnt/user/appdata/kde":"/nobody/.kde":rw sparklyballs/krusader cd3a2c35910573635821ae3c7d90553e520363c41b2ed0542ef2b74d79b29a19 /usr/bin/docker: Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint Krusader (3eeb24f1052bd84e8f5ad4e188d712d21c83ff01a87ce33bb924ee106fae8023): Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:8080: bind: address already in use. The command failed. Any ideas what action I should take here please? Is it something to do with moving to dual cache? nas-plex-diagnostics-20171010-1201.zip

Windows Firewall is already off as it is managed by Kaspersky. Before I reinstalled Kaspersky today, I couldn't see the SMB shares and I still can't with Kaspersky managing the firewall. I would prefer not to disable the firewall even for testing as I have now found that FileZilla is more than capable of letting me into the unRAID shares through FTP with passwords set.

Yes I have a switch - 16 port Netgear GS116UK ProSafe Gigabit 10/100/1000 over Cat5e. My Mac Mini can see the server over AFP and as I now know I can FTP into it. It is just Samba to Win10 that is blocked. I don't have any other switches to try but I could find which cable was which in the comms cupboard and put them into the Router direct. To be honest now I know I can FTP my specific access issue is resolved. I wonder if the minimum supported samba version in recent versions of Win10 has drifted away from what unRAID offers?

Sadly \\IP-address does not result in anything. I have added the extra commands to the Samba options and restarted the server. It is still the local master just as before but I cannot reboot the Windows 10 PC at the moment as it is in the middle of a very long download (*shakes fist at rural internet*). I will wait till that is finished then reboot the PC. I will also read through the rest of the things to try in the thread, Frank. EDIT : Ooh, I can get in through the FTP side. I have created a user in unRAID that matches my Windows 10 login and put that in the list of permitted users for FTP. I can then go to ftp:\\IP-address\, get asked for the user name and password and I am instantly in. That does mean I can use something like FileZilla to do the same in a more elegant and useful way. It would still be good to know why SMB is not working though.

No change I am afraid. The unRAID server is simply not appearing in the list of network devices visible to Windows 10. The only place I can get to it is via the browser GUI.

I appreciate the help but here are my current unRAID settings... Array is started and accessible via a browser Dynamix Local Master plugin is installed Settings - Network Services - SMB - SMB Settings - Enable SMB : Yes (Workgroup) - Hide "dot" files : No - Workgroup Settings - Workgroup : WORKGROUP - Local Master Browser : Yes - Monitor Local Master Election : Disabled - Current Elected Master : NAS-PLEX is current local master browser Shares - User Shares - Download - SMB Security Settings - Share Name : Downloads - Export : Yes - Enhanced OS X interoperability : No - Security : Public

I have Win10 set to Private for networks and don't see the unRAID box at all in the list of Networked devices. I have set up a user on unRAID with a name and password and then tried to map a network drive to \\myserver\myshare and told it to use the user name and password but I just get the error message "The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred : the specified network name is no longer available". As far as Win10 is concerned, it is the only device on my network. I can use the browser to go to the unRAID server via its IP address (static) so it is definitely up.

I have the usual problem that I have read about on the forum in that I cannot see my unRAID server or shares from a clean Windows 10 PRO machine and I am wondering what is the "correct" way to resolve the issue so I can view the shares. Do I set up passworded users on unRAID with access to the explicit set of shares I want and if so, how? Do I use an FTP tool to get in from the Win10 box? Do I fiddle with SMB settings? Both the unRAID box and the Win10 PC are at home on the same LAN. So far I have the unRAID box with SMB active and it is set to be Local Master for WORKGROUP. Dynamix Local Master says that unRAID is the Local Master. The shares are set to Export and Public but Win10 sees no evidence of the server at all. I just get to see the Plex Media Server in the Windows File Explorer.

Thanks for posting the XML. The only significant difference I can see is that I have the GPU described as... <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <rom file='/mnt/user/domains/vbios/asus1050ti.rom'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> and you have... <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> The difference is that I have an address type with differing bus (0x02/0x03 and so on) but same slot (0x00) for each PCIe device and you have the same bus (0x02) but differing slot (0x05/0x06 and so on) for each PCIe device. I have no idea where the template picks those up from but it is the only significant difference I can find. I have tried passing the ROM. I am in OVMF and Q35_2.10. I just ge the black screen. Ubuntu on the other hand (with the same GRUB options) sees the card and boots perfectly to the desktop. I have no idea what Mint is doing differently.

While the D15 does block the very first PCIe x1 slot, it is not because of the fans. The issue is the space between the back of the cooler and the case. I could fit a very short x1 card in there but my USB card is just a couple of mm too long. I could also rotate the cooler 90 degrees to gain some space but I do not have a vented side panel. It is oriented front to back at the moment with an acrylic side panel in the CaseLabs S8 and I would like to keep it that way for now. Please could you have a look at the XML for your Linux Mint VM and show it to me because I would like to see how it is structured differently from what I am trying to use. Also which version of unRAID are you using and is it in Legacy or EFI boot mode?

Having swapped the 1080 Ti for the 1050 Ti I have spotted the following... 1. unRAID booted off the iGPU, 1080 Ti unused in slot 1 Linux Mint 18.2 OVMF - blank screen after GRUB. Nomodeset, nouveau.modeset=0, nvidia.modeset=0 no effect Ubuntu 16.04 OVMF - pink garbled screen after GRUB every time 2. unRAID booted off iGPU, 1050 Ti unused in slot 1 Linux Mint 18.2 OVMF - blank screen after GRUB. Nomodeset, nouveau.modeset=0, nvidia.modeset=0 no effect Ubuntu 16.04 OVMF - perfect boot, Ubuntu installs correctly first time with no extra parameters needed in GRUB There is clearly a difference between the 1080 Ti and 1050 Ti as far as Ubuntu is concerned but Mint likes neither of them. I wonder if it is the ASUS Maximus IX Formula incorrectly handling the virtualisation or if the ASUS 1080 Ti STRIX card is not playing nicely with virtualisation? Windows 10 doesn't seem to mind either card apart from the fact that you have to install it with VNC then switch to the discreet GPU once the install is finished as explained by gridrunner.

Thanks for the response. Yes I need the USB card - none of the onboard rear-facing USB ports have Reset which is why I got it. The cooler isn't any smaller the other way round - it is a Noctua DH15. I should have bought the DH15S but didn't know about the issue until this one arrived and I have fitted it now. There is barely a couple of mm too little space for the USB card in slot 1 so when I get a server board I will check the clearance again. I could certainly consider a PCIe x1 riser cable but again once I am on a server board it will be a non-issue. The one I have my eye on has an exposed NVMe slot which will free a PCIe slot. I will then be able to fit the 1080 Ti (2.5 slots) and its associated USB card, the 1050 Ti (2 slots) and its USB card (not yet purchased) and that will probably be all I need to fit. This board either locks the NVMe away under a plastic shroud (no good for cooling) or sticks it up in the air (and kills off two SATA ports). The two GPUs can certainly be swapped round on this board. When there is only one, it gets x16 but as soon as you fit the second they both drop to x8/x8 - the perils of consumer boards of course - not enough lanes to go round. I may try the 1050 Ti and see if Mint or Ubuntu will install with it fitted. If it does, there will likely be something different in the 1080 Ti BIOS which Linux doesn't like.

Argh! Tearing my hair out with this... now a fresh Ubuntu VM won't start properly when I assign the 1080 Ti to it. I could swear I had it working off the 1050 Ti a couple of days ago but then deleted the VM and tried to install Mint when I took out the 1050 Ti and put in the 1080 Ti. The reason for all the swapping is that the motherboard is a consumer board - Asus Maximus IX Formula - and I am short of both accessible PCIe slots and also PCIe lanes. My CPU cooler blocks the first x1 slot tucked behind the primary graphics card. I have the 1080 Ti in the first slot (2.5-width air cooler), the USB PCIe card in the second GPU slot, a gap with an unused x1 slot then the NVMe drive in the last x4 slot on an ASUS Hyper M.2 x4. That last x4 slot disables the adjacent x1 slot when used. Poop! I can't put the 1050 Ti in as well because that would force the USB card into the last x4 slot and the NVMe stick would have to go on one of the onboard M.2 slots, the only accessible one of which would disable two SATA ports... which I need for the array and cache. Anyway, given the ASUS Maximus IX Formula, an unassigned 1080 Ti, USB card and NVMe card, proper IOMMU groups and unRAID booted off the iGPU, here is the issue... VM : Windows 10, OVMF, 1080 Ti - perfect boot, desktop displayed as expected. VM : Linux Mint, OVMF, 1080 Ti - grub visible. Even with one of nomodeset, nouveau.modeset=0, xforcevesa and grub_gfxmode=1024x768x16 all I get is a black screen, no cursor. Passing the 1080 Ti ROM to the VM makes no change. VM : Linux Mint, SeaBIOS, 1080 Ti - no grub, slow boot, desktop displayed as expected. Tried changing unRAID to use UEFI boot mode... no change with Linux Mint OVMF VM. Left as UEFI. VM : Ubuntu, OVMF, 1080 Ti - grub visible. Either black screen if I try nomodeset, nouveau.modeset=0 or xforcevesa or garbled unmoving pink "snow" with five black blocks across the top. Passing the 1080 Ti ROM to the VM makes no change. VM : Ubuntu, SeaBIOS, 1080 Ti - SeaBIOS failed with No Bootable Device. Unable to resolve. Reset unRAID back to Legacy boot mode. Restarted server. No change with Ubuntu in SeaBIOS, still no bootable device. I am at my wits end here. I NEED to get a Linux VM working and do not understand why it just is not playing ball.