mysteriouscrag

I just put in a different power supply at the same time that I did the other upgrades. Power supply is old to me, new to this computer. 1000 watts of overkill (previous one was 430W so I thought maybe I was having power issues). So, power cable has been changed out. SATA cable also swapped out. Ugh, I guess I try a different cache drive? I'll try it because it makes sense as a next best troubleshooting step but I do think there's something else I'm doing wrong that's causing the problem. Thanks!

Okay so I ended up moving everything back to the array and completely removing the cache drive then I went through with a previously planned upgrade. New motherboard, processor and memory. Everything went flawlessly. After that I removed the port multiplier and put in a previous expansion card that I was using (just 2 ports vs the 8 that the other card had). I have no idea if the current card is a port multiplier or not but now I have my cache drive plugged direct into the (new) motherboard. I moved the docker.img and appdata to the cache drive. Immediately all dockers missing. I did a docker restore and it went mostly okay. BUT, now I'm getting the same errors. The cache drive is flipping to read only and causing havoc (I'm checking using "cat /proc/mounts | grep cache". CPU starts maxing out and the Web GUI becomes impossible to navigate. I'm attaching a copy of my diagnostics report again. Thanks in advance! EDIT: According to "top" it appears that shfs process is floating around 80% - 90% and the Web UI is pretty much impossible to use (list of docker containers won't load). tower-diagnostics-20201130-0936.zip

Interesting... okay, sooo, forgive me for being slow. I have a PCI-E sata expansion card. Is the Marvell controller on the card? Is my card considered a "port multiplier" but there would be a different version of a similar expansion card that would work? If the answer is yes, I will search for compatible unraid expansion cards. Thanks!

Ugh. So basically I had a bunch of dockers set up. I moved appdata and docker.img to my cache drive. Cache drive was small so I upgraded to a bigger drive. I severely botched the process and lost my docker. Docker told me I needed to recreate docker.img. I did so and then started setting up my dockers again (mostly binhex radarr, sonarr, sabnzbdvpn and plexinc's plex docker). I never managed to get them working. For some reason the cache drive kept flipping to read only. I was monitoring this by running "cat /proc/mounts | grep cache" I finally gave up on the cache drive and moved appdata and docker.img back to the array. I deleted docker.img many many times. I've tried rebuilding docker containers from user templates and from scratch. The ones from scratch were working for a bit (hours). Now it seems that I'm getting similar problems as I was getting when the "read only filesystem" issue came up. Now when I toggle the docker service on and off, it sometimes won't start the docker service. The menu option shows up but then it says "Docker service failed to start." Rebooting fixes it but it has an almost impossible time unmounting a share/drive... Not sure which share. It was the cache drive that was mounted read-only before but now that i moved back to the array I have no what is causing it. The syslog shows "retrying unmount" over and over. Now when I try to start a docker I get "Error 403." Any help at all is appreciated. tower-diagnostics-20201127-1043.zip

Not sure which other VMWare products have the feature but VMWare Workstation allows for a VM which is hosted on one computer to be accessed and run from another computer. I'm realizing as I type that the actual virtualizing is being done on the "client" rather than the "server" in this case. Still I'd like to know if this is possible with unRAID.

Is there a way for me to run an unRAID-hosted vm on my local machine rather than accessing it via VNC/teamviewer/RDP etc? This can be done using VMware's products but I don't believe that can be used to unRAID

Kind of borderline not an Unraid question... hope this is okay with the mods: At work we are upgrading our server to all new hardware and will be replacing all of the aging hard drives. I'd like to run a really good test on all the drives before throwing all of our (mission critical) data on them. I was thinking of throwing them in an unRAID server and preclearing them all before forging ahead to seed out any bad apples. Obviously they would end up being formatted NTFS before using them on Windows. Would this be a reasonable idea?

I have edited my /etc/rsyncd.conf file and created an /etc/rsyncd.secrets file. The conf file keeps reverting and the secrets file keeps disappearing. I believe this happens on reboot (I've had to reboot a couple times in the last few days). What am I doing wrong?? Thanks.

Okay, I figured it out. I noticed that I could get to the WebUI if I turned off "Enable VPN" in the container settings. That finally gave me the idea to compare it to my SabnzbdVPN settings and I noticed that my PIA username in SabnzbdVPN was different than the one in DelugeVPN. I had the wrong PIA username/password pair. So stupid. Thanks for your help and thanks for the dockers!

Everything was peachy with my delugevpn and then I tried to change the port from 8112 to 8113 and ended up messing up WebGUI access. Upon changing the port the docker immediately disappeared from my docker containers page. I tried a couple things then hit advanced and removed the orphaned docker. I tried to reinstall using the "my-delugevpn" template. I tried going to the WebGUI and it wouldn't load. I just immediately goes to a "This page can't be reached". I tried removing and reinstalling, this time using the "binhex-delugevpn" template. Same problem. I tried changing the port and accessing using that port. No luck. I tried killing and removing all docker containers from the command line and then re-added each. ALL work after being re-added except delugevpn. It seems that the 8112 is lockedup or something from the original installation? Oh this could be 100% unrelated but I considered switching to rtorrentvpn since I couldn't get deluge working. I tried installing and accessing the WebGUI. Wouldn't work. Again though, all 5 of my other dockers' WebGUI's are loading no problem. Please help. Thanks!