LostAlone

My diag file is like four posts up and the problem it relates to was solved by another user. So super good contribution here dude. Thanks a lot.

The fix you suggested worked! The server is now connectable again. However one of my user shares is showing up as empty via Windows Explorerer. The files are still visible there through the web gui and looking through the putty command line so there's nothing actually missing, but the files are not accessible. The share still works; no error is thrown when I try to view the folder, it just appears empty.

Thanks, I'll give it a go. Yeah, I know my drives are really full but I need to wait for my Christmas pay check to get a couple of new drives in there.

I've managed to acquire a new error message; In putty when trying to telnet into the server it'll now throw 'login: Cannot possible work without effective root' at me. So that seems to suggest that there indeed is something very wrong with users or passwords or similar here. Following ljm42's suggestion I opened up /boot/config/passwd and it only reads: 'unraid-plex:x:999:100::/homfalsee/unraid-plex:/sbin/nologin root:x:1001:100::/bin/' Since I have no idea if that's what it's supposed to say I don't know where to start with fixing that; as best I can see there isn't a fresh version of the file in the download package; presumably it's created during first boot, but that means I can't just copy a new version over. Since my server runs headless I'm not in a hurry to start deleting stuff and repeatedly rebooting to see if I can spur it to remake users without knowing what I'm doing. So... What to do?

OK lets try this again tower-diagnostics-20161029-0852.zip

Here we go tower-syslog-20161028-1421.zip

Anyone? I hate to be that guy but right now my sever just doesn't work in any useful way and seemingly there's nothing I can do about that. A little help?

Hey guys. None of my networked machines are able to connect to my server through SMB or via putty. If I try every machine throws a different network error (one says server is refusing connections, another says it needs to reinstall TCP/IP, the other said something different still). However, I can still connect to the dashboard via HTTP and everything seems fine. Array is up, disks are read fine, SMB enabled. I wasn't poking any settings before this happened either, just normal operation then when I went to grab a file the server wasn't there. This persists through multiple reboots on both the server and remote machines, and updating Unraid didn't solve anything either. The only other symptoms are that the Web interface is very sluggish now, taking over a minute to access pages but nothing has changed on the networking side as far as I know. I tried to connect via IP address instead of server name to no avail and in the browser just http://tower gets me the page so it seems not to be a name/Ip issue but I can't rule that out. Any ideas what I can do would b greatly appreciated!

The i3-3245 is a FAR more capable CPU than the A8-6600k. While they have almost the same total processing capacity, don't forget the i3 is doing that with 2 cores vs. the 4 cores of the A8. For a transcoding task the much higher performance of an i3 core will run circles around the A8. ... Not to mention that if you go with a board that supports the i3, you could easily more than double your processing power in the future by simply switching out the CPU for an i7 I'd certainly agree that the i3 is a better chip all told... The thing is that if I'm buying an i3 then I'd be much more likely to build a new desktop with the i3 in and put the Core2Quad from my desktop into the Unraid, because that certainly has the power to transcode and I'd get a better desktop into the bargain Since we're opening the discussion up a little perhaps we should talk about some more general questions: Does Intels reported improvements in media encoding power translate to better transcoding performance per mhz? What's more important for this kind of application; cores or speed? What are the best benchmarks to look at to determine potential transcoding ability?

A major problem over here is that old hardware is damn near impossible to source at a reasonable price. On newegg the A6-6400k is the same price as an X4 640 ($79.99) but domestically the x4 640 costs the equivalent of ~140 USD, which kinda takes that out of the running. My worry with going up to an i3 is that I can get more theoretical horsepower from AMD and at a lower price. A quad core A8-6600K comes in about twenty bucks below the i3-3245, and has 400mhz more clock. It rolls in cheaper than the i3-3245 (new hardware we do tend to get at the newegg level) it CPU marks better (4616 for the i3 vs 4931 for the A8). It's right at the top end for what I'm happy to spend, but it seems to fit the bill pretty well. A quick answer to the transcoding questions: As for formats and properly recoding over transcoding, my collection of stuff has been building diligently for a decade and I've used a lot of different formats over that time, primarily to save space during the period where just buying more drives wasn't financially viable. As things stand now, I'm ok to keep things as they are unless it's coded into something obnoxious (I am proud to report there is no longer any .RM in my collection). If nothing else, I just don't have the dedication to find things that need to be recoded. Since I moved to Plex/Rokus as my playback to TVs and mobile devices there's nothing that just refuses to play. If nothing else, transcoding is something that I still want to have the ability to do. When I have mates over, it's cool to be able to plug in any media they have into the tower and it'll pull to whatever device we want it on.

Hey guys I'm thinking about (finally) buying some new hardware for my Unraid, instead of running her off old components. However, there's a LOT of competing hardware at the lower end these days so I thought I'd ask for some opinions from you guys as to where to start looking. Presently I'm running from an old Athlon 64 X2 5000+, so pretty much any more modern CPU is going to be an improvement. I run Plex on top of Unraid and stream out to a couple of Rokus so I do need some transcoding power in there, but at the same time I don't want to waste cash getting radically more crunching power than I actually need. Some shopping around has given me a few competitors, such as the Pentium G2020 as well as the AMD A-4 4000 but the field is wide open really. I've heard that the last two generations of intel chips has massively better performance at media encoding, but I have no idea if that translates into unraid transcoding performance, and (somewhat stunningly) the A-4 is cheaper than the Pentium and with a little more clock speed. Really I'm not experienced enough with the demands of Plex to know just by looking at specs how much power is enough, and in fact if either of those chips would actually have the power to run two high quality transcoding streams at the same time. My venerable old A64 will run one, although with some stutters, but definitely not two. On paper both of the chips I suggested are better, but not by a vast amount (2 cores at 2.6Ghz at the moment, against 2.9Ghz and 3Ghz respectively) so should I perhaps even be looking towards an A6-6400K? Not a huge price bump over the pentium, but certainly has more grunt. Both chipsets have motherboards with abundant SATA ports and gigabit networking, so that's not going to break the tie either. It really comes down to what's going to be the right performance for my system. As an additional consideration, when I do the new build I'll be putting in a proper PSU. Does anyone know off the top of their head what kind of wattage I should be looking at for these kind of CPUs with six drives, and the potential to support (say) another six as I expand? Thanks in advance guys!

Hey guys I just went up to RC3 and got through with running the new permissions script but my shares (as seen on my windows 7 box) are acting kinda hinky. The major shares (Tv, Movies etc) seem to be working fine and I can read and write with no issues there. However, my less used shares (apps, books) and most disconcertingly the Flash share give me a 'This refers to a location that is unavailable' message. If I go in via telnet I can browse those shares so they are obviously still there, I just can't get into them via samba. Most notably, I want my Flash directory back, I have unmenu packaged to install! Edit - Ok, apparently I can only write to a few browsable shares, but not all of them even though they all have the same setting. Thanks guys!

Hey guys I own a blackberry playbook, and one of its few slight issues is that it can't browse/playback from SMB shares. Now, a fine gentleman got annoyed that there was no official support for streaming media from networked devices and wrote a nice little lightweight server using PHP and LightTDP, leveraging the browsers ability to playback practically any video or audio you can throw at it. It's actually really rather good. Now, as it stands I am running those two programs on my windows box, which serves the web page with my network shares available on them. However, since this is somewhat inefficient (and requires having both my windows and unraid box fully powered on) I was wondering if I can get this same kind of arrangement running directly from the unraid tower. Since there are both PHP and LightTDP packages available it strikes me that its possible, but I wouldn't know where to start. You can see the work that the original developer has done here: http://forums.crackberry.com/playbook-apps-games-f243/got-irritated-wrote-media-server-my-pb-687532/. It would seem (to the very untrained eye) that since neither php or lighttdp are platform specific, that it wouldn't be hard to port the existing code over, but like I say, I just don't know enough to try. Any help you guys could give me, would naturally be greatly appreciated.

Thanks man, I was trying to run it on the drive by going to it as /dev/sdd rather than /dev/md3. Cheers.

Hey guys One of my drives keeps putting out errors that look like this: Jun 22 13:43:37 Tower kernel: REISERFS error (device md3): vs-13070 reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [91885 92057 0x0 SD] So I figured I need to run reiserfsck on the drive to either fix the problem or at least find out what it is. Anyway, when I run resierfsck, it tell me that I need to rebuild the superblock. And when I tried doing that it asks me about a Journal device, and I have no idea what that means. So if anyone could guide me through running reiserfsck (or has any other ideas at what to do about my errors), that'd be awesome.