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@ledfortr there's also Crafty 4 that can run multiple servers all with one docker. I use that one. Draw back there is there's another learning curve with that docker, like there was with this one. <shrug>

@ledfortr dang it, sounds like you got a real unRaid dumpster fire on your hands there. You're going to want to figure out which drives, specifically, are failing and replace them right away. While you're at it, buy one extra drive too, for when this happens the next time. If you have room, you can put it into the server, and plug it in and NOT assign it anywhere. It will sit there quietly, no reads/writes, waiting on bench for it's turn to replace a failed main drive. You shouldn't have to reboot the server, like almost ever. unRaid does have checkdisk stuff and disk health stuff built in. Go digging around in settings, then look up "how to replace data drive" in the wiki, and follow those steps. Do the same for your cache drive. Now to the sad news: even if you were backing your minecraft world up, unless it was somewhere that was NOT one of those failing drives, you may have lost your stuff. When you DO find your world files, get them outta there wiki wiki. This advice is hindsight 20/20 here, but it's smart to back up mission critical stuff separately from even your unRaid server. There's a mantra out there that I'd do well to follow myself: raid is not a backup. Truly, sometimes I get some file errors that are unfixable. I "fix" them with some command line interface thing, and it creates all these "lost+found" files, sometimes thousands of them, and happy day: they're all these family pictures with metadata stripped, renamed, and thrown into random folders. It was awful, I had to delete them all and let those memories go away. Raid is not a backup. There is a real good minecraft plugin! Drive Backup v2. I've had this going on several of my servers. It zips up and rotates the most recent XX backups to my Google Drive account. Now that's a backup. Not that it does you any good at this point. I'll find a few links for ya here... This should get ya going. Good luck! https://diskprices.com/ https://wiki.unraid.net/Replacing_a_Data_Drive https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/drivebackupv2 https://forums.unraid.net/topic/99899-help-determining-if-drive-is-dying/ ooo this is excellent advice: maybe the cables are falling off, or breaking. "Swap cables, and see if the problems follow the drive." Before you start messing with stuff, get a six'er of beers. Print out the Main page of your unRaid that shows which drives are assigned to what spots xda1, ssd3 whatever. At some point things may get boned, and you'll need to select which drive, out of all your drives, gets the drive4 spot. I recall the last 4-8 digits of the serial number of the hard drive is a good way to identify each physical drive. https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Troubleshooting#System_Diagnostics I won't look at these things (I should prolly figure it out one of these days), but the tech gurus around here will want to take a look at your system logs in the diagnostics.zip file. This is where to get them. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/59048-how-to-test-disk-health/

I had some problems near the end of this install, with Open Configurator. I got an error message when I ran the program: I'm not sure the right volume was there for the EFI mount, and one of the files was missing Just want to be sure I don't gloss over anything that will trip me up here. It's a little different from Spacedinvader's video.

Is this important from the SWAG log?

Roon Docker does not have good logging. As I’m thinking about this, I think it may have more to do with Docker and your system more than the Roon Docker specifically. It’s real odd that you can’t stop the Docker container. I’ve never had a Docker container like that.

I hadn't setup the gmail specific app password, that was certainly a problem. I opted to go with my webhost SMTP, which is a little easier. I was wrestling with that for a while too and found this to end up working: Secure SMTP: force_tls https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/test-smtp-email-settings/1020/5

I'm having no dice on the gmail smtp connection. Here's what I got and the error I get "Error sending SMTP test email. SMTP response error: incomplete response"

Good questions! If you haven’t solved them by tomorrow, I’ll see what I can find. 😉

I only ran this specific Docker briefly while Crafty Docker was having some issues a couple years ago. It wouldn’t hurt to get in there command line and tar up the entire appdata Minecraft server directory. You only really need the world folders, but everything besides the world folders is small enough you can just tar (aka zip) it all. You’ll want to grab the latest server jar and be running that for your server. If you’re getting version conflicts between server and clients, run an older version of the game on your clients to match the server as there’s nothing more that can be done with the server. It sounds like you’re concerned about losing existing progress. I would make a new server, build a house, back up, delete, and restore to make sure you’re familiar with the process before the poo hits the fan. Test it. have fun! A friend of a friend got me hooked on the game. I started playing with friend dads and their daughters. My daughter got into it, and I’ve been plugging away on several worlds since the for years now. It’s a real fun game. Enjoy! this video is real close to what you’d do

@Mercian it sounds like there are some issues going on outside of the roon Docker specifically. I’d try searching for those permission errors on the rest of the forum. I’m trying to recall when I last had permission errors. You can restart the server itself. There’s also a “fix permissions” setting process somewhere. I’ve had luck with that before too. I believe in the Docker setting there is a field for user and group. You’ll want to make sure that populates the same as you other dockers, though I’m sure the defaults should be fine. And if you removed the Docker image and the appdata files, you should be back to all default.

Can you nuke the Docker, delete appdata, and start over? you enter credentials via a Roon client after connecting to Roon core. If I recall. It will have to rebuild your server.

Ya know, I didn't get it exactly figured out. I ended up following these directions at docs.pi-hole.net. I'll also mention that you should watch the first 50 seconds of this video, it's funny. That being said, what I NOW have going on are TWO piholes. One is docker, one is on a RaspberryPI 3 (near impossible to get at the moment sad face). Each one is doing DHCP, but are assigning in different pools of IPs. Each pihole has itself + the other as the two DNS servers (clear as mud!?). Here's how I specified two DNS servers in the pihole DHCP settings. The reason I found that first youtube video up there hilarious is because having the only DNS server at home in the unRaid server kinda lends itself to ... failure. I had much better luck with a single dedicated raspberrypi; then thought I'd double up with unraid>docker>pihole. I digress: I hope one of these days pihole makes wireguard into the webGUI. But the instructions, while a little fiddly, are working solid for me now; and takes unraid out of the picture for remote access, which I like. hope that helps. happy holidays.

Maybe it did work, but you have to be OP to fly, if that’s the metric you were using?

That should do the trick. You should OP yourself anyhow. Go to that Terminal screen and put in op <username>

Make sure you’re editing the correct server.properties, and that you’re editing it in the correct format. How familiar are you with Docker file locations, there is a learning curve there. Many settings you can change from within the game using a chat /gamemode hard <enter> for example you do have to be “op” for that. from the Docker find you server and where you enter commands. op <username> <enter>

Restart server

I found this thread because I plugged in a piKVM and it has a hard time with the screen going to sleep, then waking. Anyone find a solution to the sleep time for monitor?

@Hoopsterhave you been able to wiggle the mouse, mash keyboard, wake the server up AND type into the console to login, all via the PiKVM? Mine won't let me type after waking up. I could when it first powered on, which is good. But it should continue to work.

Wowee is that thing awesome. I wrote it up here. Highly recommend, 5/5.

-=the business=- $250 remote access to: hard reset, power ON from OFF, bios -=my prattling=- Too many times over the past years I've had to call my significant other and walk her through: server hard reset, CLI (command line interface) commands, and other awful things. The time I spent on the phone was, let's say 10 minutes. But I've been paying for it ever since. Yes: today, unRaid is super stable, we can reset Dockers, it runs in RAM, what could happen? Well sometimes you just need a good ol' fashion Hard Reset. And that most frequently happens at the worst time: when I'm three states away. -=issues=- I can wake up the screen, but can't type anything into the console. I'm thinking it's a keyboard or motherboard mismatch. The important thing is to be able to turn the thing on and off. If that's ALL it is, $250 is steep for that. I'll report back and update post. https://pikvm.org/ PiKVM github project https://github.com/pikvm Purchase links https://pikvm.org/buy/ US based https://www.pishop.us/search.php?search_query=pikvm&section=product $250 cribbed from the pikvm.org site Linus Tech tips review youtube I found the documentation sorely lacking. Things were relatively straight forward to hook it up. The package I received Some miscellaneous ribbon cables for hooking up front panel buttons. Both male and female. The PiKVM and the breakout board, I'm gonna call it. I should also mention here: generally each side of the PiKVM box has it's purpose. This side is the HAT side and has the "ATX" ethernet out, that uses ethernet patch cord to connect to the breakout board. The USB takes that USB-C > USB A cable, and plugs into any USB port, where you'd normally plug in a keyboard mouse combo. The HDMI Video In is from the GPU/mobo HDMI to this PiKVM. The other side of the PiKVM box has the normal RaspberryPi ports on it: power input, also USB-C, and ethernet to your LAN. I have had this working via wifi, but this is all about backup connections here: we want as solid as possible. Plug it in. This little guy, with the ethernet outlet, is not for ethernet, but uses an ethernet wire to connect to the PiKVM. The PiKVM uses those connections to "push buttons." For those old school computer builders, you CAN "push a button" simply by touching two pins with a metal screwdriver and completing that connection: that's what the button does: touches the two pins. There are four pairs of 2x2 pins. You can see one is marked with a (+), and another with GND=ground. and what each of the pairs do. I only need the Reset and Power. I grabbed my multimeter to see what was already connected to what. Here's what I figured out: So it made sense me they pins, as they're pictured above, would be correct when touching horizontally; as the vertical ones are already the same pin. Oh yeah: I can STILL use the existing Power and Reset button: there's room for both. There are big ol' through hold solder pokie things out the bottom: this board can't be kicking around inside the case. I decided to drill, where it said DRILL HERE, and screw it down with some nylon spacers ($13 amazon) and small stainless nut and bolts ($15 amazon) I had from my drone building days. you can see how much metal there is sticking through that would cause all sorts of havoc uncontrolled in the case. Here is the breakout board installed, with pins hooked up correctly. You can see the regular case button leads AND the PiKVM leads sharing the pairs. The board installed into the case The PiKVM getting ready for it's final resting location At first I had dreams of putting it inside the case. There is room in there, it's a monster. But then I realized I'd have to route USB-C power IN, and the USB C > USB A male out of the case, then back into the back of the motherboard's usb, and it just seemed silly. In the future, I would like to see some sort of internal setup. Some IN and OUT plugs on a little PCI plate, and the entire PiKVM mounted somewhere inside the actual server. Perhaps in a slot, but just physically holding on there, with no electricity dependence on the board: that's what we're trying to avoid with this remote stuff. Initially I had also plugged this into my desktop machine, and was able to happily let my buddy dig around in my own bios settings getting the memory settings just right. That was slick. I ran out a real long ethernet cable, poked a hole in my router firewall, and I'm off to the races. When I first plugged it into the unRaid box, I couldn't wiggle the mouse, or mash keys enough to wake up the screen. But, once I did the most recent unRaid upgrade, and did a Shutdown. Time to take the PiKVM for a spin. BOOOOOOMMMMMM I haven't owned this for several years yet, but I'll keep an eye on this thread and I'm happy to report back, or help other would-be customers. Highly recommend, 5/5.

Yeah it’s a steep ask. Having been using the software for a year now, I’d say it’s actually worth it. For whatever that’s worth. $10/mo billed annually $700 lifetime After 1/1/2023 increasing to $12/mo and $830 lifetime I hear what you’re saying there too with all those little players all over the place. Have you looked into Plex? I got a lifetime of that years ago, and have been using it nonstop for the whole time - but only for tv and movies. They do have a music section, and it might have some neat sync listen stuff and “end points” and casting you could look at. Otherwise, Roon does seem to be the only game in town.

@Nodiaque yes you have to make an account at the Roon website, put in your credit card, and sign up for the trial. Roon is expen$ive software! and hosting a Docker doesn’t get us out of it, sadly. ARC certainly won’t work if you can’t find the core with a regular Windows Roon client or Roon client on your phone (also while on home wifi). I suggest sorting that out first. I’m not sure how it works exactly, but there are no ports to forward. Until you use ARC, then you will have to choose a port and forward it. There are details on those instructions above.

no no, that's OK! As I started to look into a little more: read/write to an SD card (which my raspberri pi has) it seems like too big a thing. I rarely make changes to the pihole anyhow, and I can just manually do it every once and a while. AND: thanks for your work and containers!

I was looking into getting https://github.com/vmstan/gravity-sync going for my two piHole instances. I would like to use the hardware rasperrypi as the primary, and the docker instance as the secondary - I'm thinking that isn't what this docker does. I guess I could swap 'em around? thanks!

I'm looking at this now. Following the posted instructions at the github it doesn't say anything about the lack of SSH in the docker. The dev says it does support docker (reddit), but mine has no SSH. Perhaps I should manually add ssh? Like this.? # which ssh # <returns nothing> This is funky "For both standard and container based Pi-hole deployments, Gravity Sync will run directly on the host OS and not inside of the container image." https://github.com/vmstan/gravity-sync/wiki/System-Requirements So I'd run the curl command just in the normal unRaid command prompt? That seems dodgy.