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/usr/bin/mc WORKED! ;D ldd /usr/bin/mc gives the following output linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb78b6000) libgpm.so.1 => /lib/libgpm.so.1 (0xb78ac000) libslang.so.2 => /usr/lib/libslang.so.2 (0xb77d0000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb77cd000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb77c9000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb770d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb75c1000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb759a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb78b7000) I'm running 4.7 and have several apps running (SNAP, Crashplan, CouchPotato, Sabnzbd, SickBeard, Headphones). What can I do to get the command to work again without typing /usr/bin?

easy way to do that is to type which mc it should show it is in /usr/bin/mc You probably created a file named "mc" in your current directory and it is executable, but empty, so it does nothing. it says it is in /usr/bin/mc still nothing happens when I type "mc" ???

alredy did, twice, still nothing happens and this is weird, I don't receive an error message or anything, just a new line in the prompt

ok, that's an option, how can I change the premissions? However, the issue is not writing to the folder rather than it can't find the folder. I'm sure it's a silly thing, but I can't get it to work.

Nothing happens when I type mc on the putty terminal, I just get a new line. Obviously I did something wrong, but I have no idea what it is. ???

everything is in lower case, a habit I acquired since I started in linux

It's not this. I know because I have put several audio folders at /mnt/cache/music to make sure it's not empty. I then selected this as the Music Library directory in the 'manage' tab and then pressed 'Submit Query' to force a libray scan. Nothing happens, the log says 'Cannot find directory: /mnt/cache/music. Not scanning', but the directory is there PS: I have changed the folder to /mnt/cache/_music to avoid it's moved, still can't find the directory

Anyone got this running? I can parse the NZB to SAB and get it to download music but I'm having issues getting to recognize the directories. I'm getting in the log the message: WARNING Cannot find directory: /mnt/cache/music. Not scanning even though the folder does exist. PS: sorry to have posted this message in several threads, it's the only missing piece in my SAB/SB/CP setup and it's getting me crazy

I don't know what I did when I first installed it, but this time I just followed your instructions and worked! thanks! PS: I re-started the server and everything seem to be working fine.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong here... My set up is as follows: XBMC center running on the entertainment room on a dedicated Win7 machine Fresh installation, also running on Win7, on my desktop Before starting I ran a backup from the dedicated xbmc box. I backed up twice, first into separated files (jpg, tbn and nfo files) and another one into a single file, just in case. I then installed mySQL as per post 1 following the instructions up to step 2. I had no issues here. the only major difference is that instead of installing into the cache drive (or any other disk), I installed it in an SSD drive mounted through SNAP. The path is /mnt/disk/apps. I have this set up to work with crashplan without issues. So then I installed XBMC at my desktop and added the sources, and this is where I can't get it to work. The steps I have followed are: select the source set the contents type (movies, IMDB scrapper) press ok I then get a message whether I want to update the library, press ok... and nothing happens, no more messages, libray is not updated and the sql library is not written to. I also tried to import the library, and everything looks fine, the progress bar runs up to 100% without errors, but the library isn't updated. I don't know anything (almost) about mySQL, but I'm suspecting is a write-access issue. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated

Hi Joe L, thanks a lot! I run the command and check the first program not installed, which was md5depp. I remove all occurrences from /boot/packages and then everything went fine. i check and all of them are there, lock'd and ready! BTW, how can I install md5deep, any ideas?

For whatever reason (I really can't think of a valid one), the auto install feature doesn't work for many packages. When I restart the server and go to the Pck Manager tab, I can see many of my addons not installed. They are downloaded though... so I just have to click on install. After this the option of re-install on re-boot is automatically selected, and I can see the packages on the /boot/packages folder, but it doesn't re-install them. Any idea? this is quite a pain, I was starting to feel happy with my install and then this happened Some of the addons not started are the basic ones, such as the monthly parity check and the mail and ssmtp. I can provide a list of the addons not working, if this really helps.

anyone? some guidance would be appreciate it PS: I started reading 'The Linux Command Line' from http://linuxcommand.org/

I just installed SNAP, no problems during the installation and i can see the share in my windows machine. However, anything I put there gets the flag of system file and it's hidden in the windows client. I can see it in the console and with midnight commander but it's invisible in windows ??? any idea?

True, but under Share settings I select No for "Use cache disk:" and I assume it's not used for cache. It just mounts the cache when it boots up. I was never going to replace cache with a removable disk. I was just wondering if there is any advantage to moving the apps disk I have to a SNAP mountable or leave assigned as the a non-caching cache drive. I don't really have an opinion on it. It might not be better either way. Just different. my 2 cents here... I'm thinking of using snap to install and apps drive outside of the cache for the simple reason of having the cache available as a hot spare... just in case does it make sense?

Bear with me on this one... I don't know how relevant my 'story' is, just in case... I have attached a picture of my server, I have 1 parity, disk1, disk2 and 1 cache drive. The screenshoot is from this morning and shows no errors. I've been running unraid without issues since june. Then in september I started having issues while watching some files (i use a dedicated XBMC box). At firts I though it was because the connection to the server was wireless (I know isn't good, but that's the best I can do right now), but after some investigation (and some help from you guys) I pointed out the root cause as a failing drive. BTW, the drive was 1 month old and was precleared 5 times (sh*** happens ). The failing drive was disk2. I went to buy a new drive but then I had a power failure. When I fire up again the server my disk 1 was missing. I panicked, I though I had lost about 1.5TB of data! I started 'playing' with the console and midnight commander and found out that disk1 was actually ok, and all data was there, but the array didn't detect it. With midnight commander I copied all the information i could from the failing disk2 to a new drive and the damaged wasn't so bad: i lost 'only' about 200GB. The good news is that I've gone from a complete linux newbie to user 0.5 Ok, so everything was fine, I started again the system and then parity drive was missing. I shut down, remove all cables, bought new ones, put them real nice within the box... and still the same result.... I have a backplane, so I removed the drive, clean dust and put the parity drive again, switched on the server, and then parity drive was ok, but disk1 was missing....... Shutdown, remove drive, clean backplane, check cables, put them back in place, but the same result. BTW, this was strange, unraid showed me disk1 as disabled (DSBL) but I could access its contents through midnight commander, any explanation for this? Finally, since I have 4 drives and my backplane takes 5 , I moved the disk1 to a different slot, and then voila, everything went fine... finally. I used the trust parity procedure and rebuilt the array. Speed was very high during rebuild (between 100-120MB) and I took this as a good sign. As you can imagine I have become a little paranoid and I'm monitoring the array closely. I have seen the syslog, and it has many errors, although I don't know how many of those are actual errors. Bottom line, I would like to learn to read a syslog. How can I do that? I'm a power user in windows and slowly moving into linux, but have very limited experienced so far. Any recommendations? BTW, if you could please check my syslog (attached) I would appreciate it PS: my syslog is too large to attach, I have posted it in pastebin http://pastebin.com/97qKk8Wd

Thank you guys, I think I have it clear. I think I can read now a SMART report

Ok what I thought. Why then the tests give me a PASSED result? Will Western Digital accept the drive if it passes the tests?

Hi guys, This is my first post here. I've been running unRaid without much trouble for about 3/4 months. Indeed the forum and a quick search on google got me out of a few problems, but now I'm completely puzzled. I bought a Western Digital drive (WD20EARX) about 1.5 months ago. I run preclear (v1.11) for 5 times (this is the standard I use after long readings on the forums) and got a PASSED result. Please find below report: http://pastebin.com/jm7HsqLp Then about 2 weeks ago I started having problems on my XBMC box. Image froze and "bufffering" message appeared. I looked into the smart view of the mymain plugin and started seeing errors on this drive, though the overall status was passed, so I didn't pay much attention. Today I got up willing to find out about what was really going on with my drive and run a long smart report from the console, I have attached the report. So now, I'm completely lost. From reading the SMART report I would say the drive is dying: 172 errors on a 700-hours old drive (I think these are too many). Besides all the errors on the log are UNC (I was told by a friend these are unrecoverable). The Raw_Read_Error_Rate is well over 95,000, but the overall result is PASSED ??? Although I'm quite good at computers, I know very little about linux, and even less about hardware diagnostics. I though this would be the right time to get to know you guys BTW: I'm currently running another preclear on a new drive (WD20EARX also) I bought a couple of days ago. Results are good so far, but how much shall I trust the results? smart.txt