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I currently have a cron job set up to restart my server every night. However if a parity check is running and has not completed, it gets interrupted by the shutdown process. Is there a way to check if a parity is running? Or ideally any disk process (like rebuilding a disk etc) I use the powerdown script to restart currently. I manually remove the cron when doing a parity check/disk upgrade. However would love to make it automated

I used to have this problem. Since moving from plugins to docker only for all my apps it was fine. I believe one of the plugins would not shut down and hang a drive, stopping the unmount, which would in turn cause delays on the startup. Are you using plugins?

Hey all, I used to use the SSH plugin by overbryn for my SSH needs, and it worked perfectly. I've since changed over to v6 and ssh is baked in - Great! unfortunately whenever i ssh in i get Access denied. i can telnet in fine, with both my users, however the SSH doesn't seem to like root or my username being logged in. I cant seem to find the sshd_config file. It is normally located in /etc/sshd/ however that doesn't seem to exist. Where abouts is it located? Also is there a way to make settings persist across reboot? Or should i just place something in my go file to achieve this. Or failing this is there a way to disable the SSHd in unraid so i can use the plugin?

The most important thing is don't panic, or rush. Too many times you see people post on here, then post an hour later about how they messed up even more because they weren't patient enough to wait. A machine can live (turned off) indefinitely, until you know the right solution to fix it, don't panic and guess at solutions. That should be on there.

I had this same issue when i first moved to v6, however after a few days plex returned to normal speeds and has been fine ever since. Could be to-do with regenerating all the media info, and parity checks etc. Give it a few days, and you might find the problem solves itself.

Hi all, With needos plex docker i seem to constantly be getting '>>>CURL ERROR: Operation timed out after 1001 milliseconds with 0 out of -1 bytes received' . Also after a while it seems the plex server crashes and needs restarting (Just seems to stop working, nothing in logs) Is this an underlying thing with dockers? My dockers are all stored in /mnt/user/apps/ directories. Never had a problem with plex running as a plugin, however i wanted to switch everything over to dockers as it seems to make the most sense. Does anybody else have any issues with plex in a docker? Or ways you've fixed these issues that perhaps ive overlooked. Thanks

I have Virtualbox v4.3.8 However it seems that there is no phpvirtualbox version compatible with this version out yet i just get this error 'This version of phpVirtualBox (4.2- is incompatible with VirtualBox 4.3.8. You probably need to download the latest phpVirtualBox 4.3-x.' Is there another GUI tool for managing a remote virtualbox i can install? Either on windows or on unraid. I don't fancy using the CLI to install my VM's. Edit: Nevermind, found it on the sourceforge site. Just the download button is linked to the last version.

Hi All, I currently have a drive showing as unformatted in my array, i was trying to sort a different drive and managed to mess it up (I believe i ran reiserfs on /dev/sdh instead of the correct drive) So i now have two drives that are unformatted. The drive i was orignally trying to fix i believe is dead (was trying to check for errors, and reiserfs just gives up) but the other drive is perfectly fine still, and i can mount it manually and access all the files, how do i get unraid to recognize it? I found reference to mkmbr on the forum, however when i try to run it it returns with This is for a 3TB drive so i figure since its GPT i need to use a different thing, but i cant find any reference to what. I'm on unraid 5.0-beta14. Edit: fdisk shows the following Edit 2: Okay so after some more reading (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20056.0) that thread seems to be almost the same problem, and it suggests if i can mount it manually, then unraid should be able to as well, by running the initconfig However, one of my other drives is failed, so is this the best course of action to go for, since hopefully it will come back online, with only the 1 disk as failed, which i can then swap out and rebuild. I'll wait for some advice incase i'm totally reading this all wrong Thanks for any help!

Hi itimpi thanks for the reply. Is there any recommended way of me testing this out? Or are you saying that it could well be, whatever the problem is has 'killed' the other drives as well & so just check all cabling & replace all drives? I don't want to put another drive in to then kill that drive, without first fixing the underlying problem. I just cant see how i can single out the cause. Edit: Just caught the edit! I will go check all the connectors and boards to make sure they're all properly seated. Thank you

Hi All, I'm running version: 5.0-beta14 I'm having a problem at the moment with drives erroring. I had a drive red ball on me about a week ago, so i swapped it out with a brand new drive and rebuilt the array with no problems, however since then i've had other drives error. I now have a drive say red ball saying Does anybody know the reason for this? All the drives that failed are in the same backplane, i've tried using direct SATA connectors instead of the breakout cable, with no luck in changing it. What could be the issue here? could a faulty backplane be causing this? Or is it much more likely the drives are actually all dying at the same time.

Hey all, i'm running 5.0-beta14 Basically i upgraded my parity drive to a 4TB drive recently, upgrade went fine, then swapped out an old 1TB drive for the old parity drive which was 3TB. Did data rebuild on it and after unraid had green lights on all drive, did a parity check to make sure & they all came up positive, but basically whenever i restart unraid at the moment its keeps doing a data-rebuild on the drive (Done this twice now) parity checks return 100% fine though, and all disks are fine and healthy. Should note my flash drive had some problems, just took it out and ran a chkdsk on it as it was read-only for some reason, put it back in and its fine now. Is data related to disks etc stored on the flash drive? Could this be the reason why its having to rebuild? as obviously it doesn't know about the new disk as it can't write to flash drive? Hopefully its the flash drive problem! If not if anybody has any clues, that'd be great. Thanks

Okay i've managed to fix it finally, i removed everything from the go script except obviously running emhttp and it seems to have come back to normal, so it seems like this command "cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c" was messing it up. Not entirely sure why but incase anybody else has this problem.

where is this .sabnzbd folder located? it shouldn't be sdb, it sghould be either /mnt/cache/ /mnt/disk1 etc or if its inside a usershare it should be /mnt/user/ShareName

Hey all im running 5.0-rc4 unraid i recently cleaned up my packages folder as it had plenty of random packages leftover from unmenu addons and such that i've had from previous versions, however now when unraid starts up the installpkg command returns not found? my go file is /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c unraid_notify start it also returns an error on the first line saying -c should have an argument, and then unraid_notify returns command not found. installpkg still works fine, as do most commands cd, ls etc. However shutdown, reboot, installpkg, unraid_notify dont seem to work (Presumably more do but i feel a bit out of my depth in this one, im not a linux expert by any means) I've tried googling the solution however it doesn't seem anybody else has experienced this with unraid I have attatched the syslog incase anybody needs it. This has obviously massively disrupted my unraid boxes usefulness, so i'd be super greatful if anybody has any solutions or things to try! I really have no idea how these commands etc are put into effect, so it could be something simple i guess? Any help would be much appreciation! If i've forgotten to include anything, appologies and just ask and ill try whatever the suggestion is. Having a bit of a bad morning with unraid today! syslog.zip

Joe is the most prolific and knowledgeable person on this forum. Suggesting that he is an 'ass' is not the most sensible way to go about getting help. I will re-iterate what he said: There are not any 'standard' plugins. If you are adding any applications which did not come in the original unRAIDxxx.zip file, then they are NOT standard. Perhaps it would be helpful if you were to to tell us what the ownership/permissions of the /tmp directory are before you issue the chmod command. Then disable ALL addons and reboot. Now what is the ownership/permissions on your /tmp directory. Are you sure that the problem is with the top level /tmp directory, and not some files or sub-directory being created by one of your addons? I know he is, ive always highly respected him and his dedication to helping people (I was even like "Oh great, joe replied to my thread") however when i was simply asking a question his post was basically just insulting me without really acknowledging the question. He could have shortened it to "What version of unraid? Have you tried disabling all plugins?". It just seemed to be far too hot-headed a post. I'm sure you can see what i mean. and i realize there are no 'standard plugins', i meant just actual plugins, not unmenu etc. i realize they are all third party etc etc and not part of unraid (hence PLUGIN) however since nobody reports issues like this about the plugins (and they're all popular plugins) i was trying to point out that it seemed unlikely i would randomly be experiencing this issue without somebody else having experienced it. Anyway, i noticed in my packages folder that i still had a lot of artifacts leftover from unmenu and old plugins, so i removed the folder and started up unraid again, however now i seem to have lost access to a lot of bash commands such as reboot, shutdown, installpkg however i still have installplg ? I realise this is (most probably) a totally different issue however on googling it i just receive thousands of threads of people on ubuntu saying it doesnt work and people saying "thats because its slackware.."

Sorry perhaps i was unclear. By standard plugins i meant plugins using the actual plugin API E.g not unmenu plugins, not stuff in the go script etc etc. (So stuff on the forum, and so obviously if this was a problem with a plugin - It would have been mentioned by somebody else by now) I've also tried disabling all other plugins and nothing else seems to do it. Unraid version is 5-rc4 however it has happened on other versions (have updated unraid a few times) and its never not happened, since i think version 11b? Was around when the problem first started happening (Although my box was 24/7 so i didn't notice it for a long time) which is why i didn't feel the need to omit the unraid version Which is why i believe its an unraid issue - or a hard drive issue? Something i'm not confident in troubleshooting -hence why im on the forum. So before you go all 'YOU'RE AN IDIOT' in caps next time, perhaps take a minute to to stop and think that maybe you're taking the message the wrong way, because its not exactly helpful. (Even if i didn't know the message you were trying to put across, there are plenty of ways to do it without being an ass) I just wanted to know if it was a problem anybody else had encountered before, or if anybody had any ideas on it that aren't just stabs in the dark.

Hi, recently i've had a strange problem with my unraid box. Every time my unraid box is rebooted, the /tmp directory is inaccessible by MySQL (The mysql plugin - running as nobody) so i have to do a chmod 1777 /tmp -R on startup. Also my sabnzbd directorys settings have the same thing, whereby the log file etc have the wrong permissions (a quick chmod 1777 fixes this) However does anybody know what might be causing this? This sabnzbd directory is located on my cache drive, so it seems weird that the permissions would be reset on a reboot, the tmp directory i can almost understand (however it didn't originally do this) Has anybody experienced anything like this before? I have nothing in my go file anymore except unraid_notify start and everything else is just the standard plugins, so i cant really see why this would be happening (as obviously nobody using any of the plugins i use have been reporting these problems) It's quite frustrating since obviously if i set my unraid box to shutdown and startup at certain times of the day it would mean that nothing is accessible until i ssh into it (or obviously i enter this stuff into the go file, but this seems more like a hack to fix something that shouldn't be happening and i feel like it could have deeper meaning hidden beneath it)

The 'buffering' with sabnzbd is more likely due to the drive I/O being saturated, verifying/unpacking read/writes a lot to the drive and will pretty much max it out, meaning anything else reading from the drive will unfortunately be slower (hence the buffering) You can get around this poblem though by going into the switches option under settings and add "-c2 -n6" to the IONice settings More info can be found here http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-switches

Seems to be connecting to data.com instead of the hostname. Have you tried using the ip instead?To get your local ip for your box if you're not sure just telnet/ssh in and type ifconfig Also, Make sure youre adding the http to http://data:80 Some browsers like to add .com to things assuming you've forgotten. If this is what youre doing it will be a dns problem, perhaps your router? Either way, Its an error on your end, not the servers (easy mistake to make!) since unraid doesnt run off of apache and so wont return that page regardless.

Sorry for the late reply, There shouldnt be a nobody user in u raid, no need to create it. Su nobody changes your user to nobody, it should have changed the login bit e.g root#tower: to nobody#tower: basically Are you using the sab etc plugins or is it a script? Really seems like a permissions thing, try setting the permissions for the folders to give access to, or running the full permissions script in unraids gui (Utils -> New permissions) Hopefully you've got it fixed by now though as its been like 2 weeks!

Just curious, Are there any advantages to this over CouchPotato? Or are they just simply different approaches & designs but the same functionality? Just curious as to any possible differences between the two. Edit: Sorry just noticed the link to the SABnzbd forums in the first post which outlines the exact question quite nicely. Here it is for anybody wondering the same thing.

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/mnt/user0/tv/ Seems to be your problem, what user are you running sickbeard/SAB as? You need to give the user permissions to your tv folder

Also just a quick note, but the python app Headphones uses beets to organise your music collection, similar to sickbeard & so on. It can be found here https://github.com/rembo10/headphones Then you just run it by having inside your go file # give nobody shell access usermod -s /bin/bash nobody # Run Headphones app as user nobody su nobody -c "python /mnt/cache/.headphones/Headphones.py -d" This is assuming Headphones is extracted inside the .headphones folder in the cache drive, change the path depending on where you extract it obviously.

Hey guys, I have a slight dilemma, my current unraid box is nearing full capacity and so i need to start replacing some of my 1TB drives to 3TB drives However, if i replace for example Disk 3 with a 3TB drive it will have 2TB remaining, however all of the other drives will still be full. Is there a way to balance the load out so that all drives have an equal amount of space left again? The reason i ask is due to my split level for TV shows being 2 (Show Name > Season > Episodes) then it means that once a drive is full, new episodes for a season that has already started cannot be added anywhere. Is there any quick-fire way to make this problem go away? Besides just moving a few TV show folders from one drive to another? I realize this is a bit of an odd question, but i feel as unraid is used by many of us to handle media like this, it should be a problem a few people have faced. So how have you overcome this problem?