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6-year old motherboard/12-year old flash drive - maybe time for an upgrade/change? (last week I was moving 50gb files around w/o issue - today I can't even move a 50mb file onto the server )

I actually have another v6 tower running that has no issues - (should have mentioned that up front) - the "good" one is a new one I spun up a few months ago for my wife

finally got Community Applications installed after multiple attempts - starting to feel like a HW issue at the root of all this

cool - sounds a little project once everything else gets sorted

Thanks for your help on this - same error when trying to install any plugin (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg download failure (Network failure)) I pinged github and saw 67% packet loss (I'm no expert, but that doesn't sound good ) Yeah - same flash drive from my initial purchase during the Bush administration - Potentially dumb question: how does one upgraded the disk formatting w/o destroying the data? (If possible, I'm guessing it's a "one disk at a time thing" and there's a detailed thread here somewhere!)

Long story short: Got my old system (been up for over 12 years) running smoothly again last week on V5, and then a couple days ago it started having issues: Mostly connection issues, explorer freezing up while trying to access files, and (seemingly) unable to write new data/files. Knowing how frustrating it is for folks to try and help out, I upgraded to Version: 6.8.3 yesterday. The data is telling me it's all still there, basic connection issues seem to be resolved, although I still have a hard time hitting the shares and individual disks. File explorer freezes/locks up, or it takes up to a minute to simply open a folder. This may be a separate issue, but I can't even install a simple plugin (plugin: wget: https://github.com/dlandon/unassigned.devices/raw/master/unassigned.devices.plg download failure (Network failure)) without having a problem. Certainly wouldn't surprise me if some bit of hardware was failing - this is my second mb in 12 years - but am completely at a loss as to how to proceed - thanks for your patience (as always!) tower-diagnostics-20201207-0724.zip

sweet - I hadn't found that before - sounds like someone over here just may have a new project in the near future - thanks for the tip!

I would - but miniDLNA is a hard requirement - I've seen a couple of threads where folks get it to work, although I'm not up to the task at this moment. I do actually have a v6 box in the house for my wife who uses it for her photo/editing business - really love it

Turned out to be a failing controller card - $30 and 24 hours waiting for Amazon to deliver a replacement and we're cooking with gas now! Thanks for all the help on this one

I'll give the memtest a go - (and I know this is old, I'm just tied to the miniDLNA plugin on V5 and although I've seen a couple of posts that talk about getting it to work in V6 I'm not sure I'm up to the task these days ) Much appreciated!

Really strange - server has been working fine and now some more behavior that leads me to believe that it's demon-possessed. Server boots, parity check is started, I can connect via WebGUI and my shares are all visible on the network. Everything looks great - after an hour I check progress of the parity check - up to some percentage, no worries. Some more times goes by, and then no connection on the network - no WebGUI, no share/server access of the files - I can connect via the console-but nothing else Anything in the syslog that would point to failure of some bit of equipment? syslog.txt

very cool - thanks!

As a follow-up I turned on DHCP on my server and I'm irrationally optimistic that things are better right now - thanks again for all the help and I've learned a ton over the past 12 hours - y'all rock!

Sorry for frustrating the heck out of everyone(!) - this is a black hole for me - I certainly never set up two subnets on purpose - mostly 'cuz I wouldn't know how or even want to - strange stuff going on over here indeed. For fun I pulled everything apart again this AM, fired up a single router and the tower and suddenly my TV was working again (from the server) and I could see the web gui on a couple of the wireless computers. Happy dance, right? Well - web gui stopped working on all machines, although the one TV I tested is still fine. (So - partial happy dance?) I pulled up the main router and looked at the rather large lists of devices in the house, and no surprise, everything that shows 'connected' is on the same subnet. Wondering out loud if there was a way to change the IP of the server to be on the same subnet (particularly w/o the web gui) Y'all have been great and I appreciate the willingness to hop in and help a (oftentimes) clueless brother out! Happy to accept further help, but I also realize that it's on me to figure out a solution from here as you've correctly identified the root cause. Many thanks!

Most, but not all - Unraid and Laser Printer are static

Great question - no idea??

Appreciate the help! (and different tech - but I'll give it a go) Pulled up another computer and the Web Gui opened partially, then timed out - just enough to see the disks and the parity check underway - but not enough for the navigation to appear IPV4 for one computer is: 192.168.1.88 (wired) Gateway 192.168.0.1 Tv is 192.168.0.118 Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 Dns server is 192.168.1.254 I do appreciate your patience - I've spent the last two weeks debugging shopping carts with "less than helpful" tickets submitted-so I know how much "fun" this can be

No love sys.log attached (probably some ugly in there) syslog.txt

thanks for the response jonathan - quick question if I may - do you think it would be enough to just plug the server directly into one of the PCs and power up that way? Lots of devices in the house (including TVs that don't want to lose power) and I'm trying to be mindful/less disruptive to the fam if I can at all avoid it!

Been running v5.xx for forever and a day - 13 drives and we're up to about 33tb these days. Had one of those (lovely) rolling blackouts the other day and am having a heck of time getting things back and happy again. Basically, can't see anything from the various computers/tvs in the house where I would access the shares/files. Every once in a while it looks like I can access the Web Gui from one of the machines in the house - but never for very long - so trying to do anything from there is pointless. Command line is never an issue. Happy to post a log here if I knew how to do this from the command line as I know this would be the first step for anyone to dive in - She's shutdown now - is there anything I can look for on the 12-year old thumb drive to get started? Appreciate the help - I'm fairly technical - just not with linux... (And yes, an UPS is already on order)

sadly no - I was so (over) confident in the data rebuild I thought was happening, I decided to run some tests to see if it had indeed failed. Oh so many (painful) lessons learned in the last 24 hours...

well that's disappointing - and certainly explains a lot - My memory says the new disk needed to be formatted when I installed it and I (of course) didn't read the whole error message. Sigh - Thanks for your help, even if it's not the answer I was hoping for - much appreciated

Here's what I've got - thanks the help! (and I'm getting that sinking feeling...) tower-diagnostics-20200702-1131.zip

"Interesting" problem here that has me a bit panicked. Very small array running on Version: 6.8.3 with just 3 drives - parity, data, and cache. Pulled up the GUI yesterday and it said that disk 1 had failed. Popped it out, replaced it with an identical (blank) disk and waited a few hours for the data rebuild to complete. Went in this morning and my shares were gone and I can't find any of the files anymore(!). (Array shows 38gb used out of 2tb - am unsure if that represents simply files the array needs to operate or if my missing files are somehow included in that total) Am I completely hosed? (I'm not a complete noob as I've been running another 30tb box for several years now-but never had an issue replacing a disk before like this, nor had an array this small)

Sigh Just built a new NUC for media access with windows 10 installed and can't map to tower or any of the shares. Have tried a few solutions here with very little love. what works: In windows explorer under "network" I can see "unRAID" - which appears to be my MiniDLNA server. I can access Tower from my browser. What doesn't: When I try and map to the share (\\tower\movies for example) I get a "The specified network name is no longer available" error. Am running a half dozen other machines in the house with no issues, but this one has me stumped. It's odd that I can see the MiniDLNA server, but not the shares on this one machine