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Definitely a card reader. This is a clean install and I have a card reader plugged into a PCIe USB card that I normally passthrough to a VM and did not set my pci-stub in the syslinux.cfg file yet. I am using chrome...so I will try with another browser. Attached are screenshots with all drives assigned and array running then second is after a reboot.

I just reformatted my flash drive and did a clean install of Unraid 6.1.7. So I am completely stock and have not installed any plugins, dockers or VMs. The only changes I have made is to the networking section to setup a static IP and changed my workgroup name in the SMB settings. I went through and assigned all of my drives including my cache drive and started the array. Everything was fine. I then rebooted the array and when the main screen came up in the webgui...the cache drive slot showed as unassigned. When I looked at the syslog is says no device...see attached diagnostics. The second diagnostic is after I reassigned the cache drive and started the array. It just seems weird to me that the cache drive is not staying assigned??? tower-diagnostics-20160125-0730.zip tower-diagnostics-20160125-0744.zip

I followed the directions in this posting and have OS X 10.11.1 installed and have upgraded to 10.11.3 via the app store. I want to get clover installed but am having issues. When I download Clover v2.3 r3333 and install clover EFI I get a message that it is not compatible with my versions of the OS X...I hit continue anyway and then followed the clover instructions posted much earlier in this thread. I get a warning at the end of the clover installation that it completed with errors. I am not sure if this is because it is not compatable with my version of OS X or some other issue. I then removed the enoch line in my KVM and when I restart the VM it says that it is booting from hard drive and then stays there...never getting to the clover EFI. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dan Here are the Clover install instructions I as following from the earlier posting in this thread: Quote danofun says: October 29, 2015 at 5:56 pm Edit I was able to successfully upgrade to El Capitan using these steps. – Followed the above to successfully install Yosemite – Once installed, boot into Yosemite then download Clover EFI bootoader – Install without UEFI (choose setting install boot0af in MBR) – after the installation completes, copy /EFI/Clover/config.plist to ~/Desktop – download and open Clover Configurator – within Clover Configurator open ~/Desktop/config.plist – in the RT Variables section change CsrActiveConfig to 0x3 – in the ACPI section uncheck FixLAN – in the SMBIOS section run the wizard and select an appropriate template (for me 14.1) – I am using a PowerColor R9 270 video card and had to inject a fakeid of 0x68101002 in the Devices section -> Fake ID -> ATI – save ~/Desktop/config.plist – replace /EFI/Clover/config.plist with the config.plist you just modified – shutdown the VM – in the unRAID OSX VM xml, delete the chameleon line – boot your VM and it should load the Clover bootloader – once booted back into Yosemite using the Clover bootloader, download Install OS X El Capitan Application from the Mac App Store. When complete, the app will open. Please note, the Application will disappear after use. – Choose Yosemite system drive for install (Example: Macintosh HD). When complete, the computer will automatically reboot. – When Clover boot screen appears, choose Boot OS X Install option (Example: Boot OS X Install from Macintosh HD). Choosing your system drive will go back to your previous installation without updating. – Complete the OS X installation process. When complete, the computer will automatically reboot. – When Clover boot screen appears, choose Boot Mac OS X option (Example: Boot Mac OS X from Macintosh HD). The computer will then complete the update. – copy /EFI/Clover/config.plist to ~/Desktop – in the RT Variables section change CsrActiveConfig to 0x67 – save ~/Desktop/config.plist – replace /EFI/Clover/config.plist with the config.plist you just modified – reboot and you’re done

Trul, Disk3 is intentionally unassigned. I pulled the disk from the array a few days ago. I do plan on replacing it in the near future, but was looking to resolve the missing user share issue first, as I don't want to get into a preclear cycle if someone has a suggestion that requires a reboot. Dan

I have an AMD HD5450 GPU that I am attempting to passthrough to OSX. Based on google searches it appears that I either need to edit some kext files or replace them, however in El Capitan Apple has a System Integrity Protection enabled to prevent malware etc. from making these changes. To disable this protection you need to boot to the Recovery OS. Any suggestions on doing this with a VM? Please note that I know I am able to actually pass the GPU through...but I am not accelerated and I am in full resolution...so I don't think I have any issues with passthrough. Thanks, Dan

Trul, I have tested booting to the offical Safe Mode and can confirm that I have the same situation. I did discover something interesting while going through this exercise. I know what I am about to say doesn't make sense...I almost want to make a video to show this. If I boot the Unraid Tower from a cold start in Safe Mode and start the array, I get the exact same situation as shown in my previous couple of posts. No user shares in webgui or when I type ls -la in a putty windows, but I can type cd /mnt/user/Vdisks(or whatever the share is) and then ls -la the files and see them. If I then go to the unraid webgui and stop the array and then click the button for reboot then unraid comes backup and the user shares are present in the webgui and fully visible in the telnet putty window when I ls -la the /mnt/user folder. When I boot to unraid in regular mode...the exact same thing happens...from cold boot no user shares but if I stop array and reboot the user shares show up in webgui and telnet window. I attached a diagnostic for a cold boot while running in safe mode. Dan tower-diagnostics-20160120-1957.zip

Here is the output of my mount. To make thing further perplexing....my VMs on unraid are running (i.e. VMs are in my Vdisks share and they run) also my plex docker is setup to read my media shares: SageTV and Movies...I am able to play these shows/movies back from plex with no issue. Dan root@Tower:~# mount tmpfs on /var/log type tmpfs (rw,size=128m,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot type vfat (rw,noatime,nodiratime,umask=0,shortname=mixed) /dev/md1 on /mnt/disk1 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) /dev/md2 on /mnt/disk2 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) /dev/md4 on /mnt/disk4 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) /dev/md5 on /mnt/disk5 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) /dev/md6 on /mnt/disk6 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) /dev/md7 on /mnt/disk7 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) /dev/sdf1 on /mnt/cache type btrfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) shfs on /mnt/user0 type fuse.shfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other) shfs on /mnt/user type fuse.shfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other) /mnt/cache/docker.img on /var/lib/docker type btrfs (rw) /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.kvm.manager/domain.img on /etc/libvirt type ext4 (r w)

I did remove all plugins...but did not try the official safe mode...reason being my usb keyboard does not become active until after the unraid boot menu is gone and I need to dig up a monitor and keyboard to plug directly into the Tower. I was planning on doing this tonigh. I had another thought...could this be some sort of permissions issue. Check out the attached screenshot. Is it normal for the double dot to be root and root. I thought everything was supposed to be Nobody and Users. I haven't run the New Perms utility since I converted from unraid 4.7 to version 5 several years ago...maybe I should run it again.

OK...check out the attached screen shot from my putty session. I go to /mnt/user and type ls and no user shares are listed. On a whim, I decided to change directories to one of my known user shares "Vdisks" and I get to that path and am able to list the folders. I then tried a couple other known user shares and I am able to get to these. Coincidently I am able to go to /mnt/user/NOTWORKING identified in my post above. I also included a screenshot of my Unraid GUI showing that I have no user shares. Any suggestions? Why don't the user shares show up when I type ls -la?? Dan

Just a quick follow up, I am still having this issue with my user shares not showing up. I decided to try something...I attempted to create a new user share called: NOTWORKING As soon as I click a button to add the share I get a message in the webgui that says "Share has been deleted" and it never creates. Attached is my diagnostics....jump right to the end of my syslog and you will see the following...which doesn't look right to me: Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (88): mkdir '/mnt/user/NOTWORKING' |& logger Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (89): chmod 0777 '/mnt/user/NOTWORKING' Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (90): chown 'nobody':'users' '/mnt/user/NOTWORKING' Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (91): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower avahi-daemon[2935]: Files changed, reloading. Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower shfs/user: shfs_readdir: fstatat: (2) No such file or directory Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower shfs/user: shfs_readdir: readdir_r: /mnt/disk5/. (2) No such file or directory Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: Restart SMB... Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (92): killall -HUP smbd Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (93): cp /etc/avahi/services/smb.service- /etc/avahi/services/smb.service Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower avahi-daemon[2935]: Files changed, reloading. Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower avahi-daemon[2935]: Service group file /services/smb.service changed, reloading. Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (94): pidof rpc.mountd &> /dev/null Jan 20 12:52:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (95): /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk status Jan 20 12:52:15 Tower avahi-daemon[2935]: Service "Tower" (/services/smb.service) successfully established. tower-diagnostics-20160120-1252.zip

Docker Request: SageTV Below are some links including a docker that Coppit from this forum started...however there have not been any updates, so I don't know if it is still an active work in progress. SageTV Open Source Downloads and Instructions: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=54 SageTV Docker Discussion: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62326 Alpha SageTV Docker link: https://hub.docker.com/r/coppit/sagetv-server/ Vagrant Builds from leading developer: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62351

lsblk screenshot attached.

So I backed up my cache drive files and then reformatted my ssd cache drive as btrfs. Then copied my data back onto the cache drive. This made no difference. One thing I noticed was that when I stopped my array then unassigned the cache drive then rebooted, sometimes the cache drive would end up in its slot after the reboot...which I thought was strange. Shouldn't it remain "unassigned" So with this in mind I decided to do a new config in case something with the drive assignments was corrupt. On my first startup with the new config all the user shares were present...I did three test reboots and the user shares did not show up on the subsequent reboots. I also tried something new. I started the array and user shares were not present...then without rebooting or unassigning cache...I then stopped the array...then restarted...I repeated the start and stop 3 times and by the third time my user shares appeared. Any thoughts? I thought unraid created the user shares by reading the disks...what would make the third start/stop and different from the two before it? Since I am now on btrfs, I have attached a new diagnostic. tower-diagnostics-20160117-0829.zip

Am I missing something with the adblocker discussion. I don't believe I have one installed and what makes my situation different is that I am not able to see the files in windows explorer. I also further noted that I telneted into the console and there are no shares listed in /mnt/user. The problem is still occurring in 6.1.7...just didn't happen on the first reboot after installing it. I have intentionally rebooted my server a handful of times, there are some instances that don't follow my initial post i.e. sometimes the shares show up like you would expect with all devices including cache assigned. Very confused. Should I copy my VM and docker image off the cache drive and reformat it? I have been contemplating moving to BTRFS file system in prep for creating a cache pool.

No adblocker installed. If I telnet in and go to /mnt/user there are no shares ...so it is definitely not an adblocker issue. On a related note I upgraded to 6.1.7 rebooted the array with all disks assigned and it came up fine and the user shares were present. Dan

Trurl, My cache drive is XFS. All of my data drives are also XFS. I have not tried under 6.1.7 yet as I am in the middle of a parity check. Dan

My user shares have disappeared. It is not from an adblocker as discussed in other threads. The user share do not show up in windows explorer or the webgui. In another post I thought I discovered that it was tied to a plugin...so I did a clean install of 6.1.6 and it is still happening. This is stock unraid on the flash with not plugins, dockers or VMs configured (although the image files still reside on the cache drive that I am attempting to assign. Here is happens...if I reboot the server with the cache drive unassigned, all of my user shares are present in the webgui and in windows explorer. If I stop the array and then assign the cache drive all of the user shares disappear in both the webgui and windows explorer. If I then unassign the cache drive and restart the array the user shares do not return...however if I reboot with the cache drive unassigned they return...bringing me to the start of this paragraph. Any suggestions. I have two diagnostics...first grabbed right away from a boot with cache unassigned so user shares present. Second (1 minute later) is after stopping array and assigning cache then starting array...so no user shares present. Any suggestions? tower-diagnostics-20160115-1805.zip tower-diagnostics-20160115-1806.zip

Moderators...please feel free to delete/move this post. Not sure what is going on...with the shareUser="e", I rebooted into safe mode and the user shares were visible. I then rebooted in normal mode and user shares were gone. Decided to remove plugins one at a time and the first one I removed was the unassigned devices plugin. I rebooted and my user shares returned...and my shareUser="e" is still set. So this is clearly not a defect....sorry for the confusion. unassigned devices plugin had been working great...is it possible that it just got corrupted or something on my flash drive? I will reinstall the plugin tonight to see what happens. Dan

Share are not visible via Samba from my Windows 7 PC. Also when I browse with Chrome to the webgui, they are not available. In both places the disk shares are visible. Dan

No Adblocker installed. Just using stock chrome for browser. I am confused by shareUser="yes" not being a valid value...because right above it is the shareDisk="yes" setting and it spells out the word yes. That being said...I see what you mean as I reviewed a bunch of tower diagnostics files (back to August 2015) and see that this value has been set to shareUser="e" all the way back to then. I have had no issue with this until this past week when I began excluding some drives to move files and ultimately remove them from my array. I just made the assumption (big mistake on my part) that shareUser="e" was a typo. Maybe its just coincidence that when I change this value to "yes" and start my array that the user shares return? Again I have had no issues with this until this past week with excluding drives. When it first happened I did a complete shutdown of unraid based on forum postings to see if the user shares would return, which they did not...please note that the shutdown was before my tinkering and changing the value to "yes".

unRAID OS Version: 6.1.6 Description: User Shares disappearing after making a change to the Global Share Settings. I dug into this a little on my system and have discovered that unraid is writing the wrong value to the share.cfg file in the config folder of flash. How to reproduce: Go to Global Share Settings, add a disk to exclude and hit apply. The resulting share.cfg file saves shareUser="e" instead of the expected shareUser="yes" Expected results: Adding or removing a file to the disk exclude should not change the shareUser= setting. However I believe the issue is that the incorrect value is being passed to the share.cfg file. Actual results: shareUser="e" Other information: I can post screenshots or diagnostics if necessary, if you are unable to reproduce this. Modified original post as I mistakenly had an incorrect capital letter in the setting.

I could use some assistance and/or reassurance. I set out to remove two drives from my array. I took a photo of existing disk assignments…stopped array, did a new configuration and reassigned the drives making sure parity was in the correct slot. Then I restarted the array which initiated the parity sync. Once the parity sync started I attempted to start my VM and was unable to do so as my windows ISO and virtio ISO were missing…I thought this was strange…I then started to check my dockers and noticed that my library was missing from Plex….however I was able to add my media folders and initiate a new scan. I also downloaded a new windows 7 iso and the virtio drivers and got my VM running. I was perplexed as to why files were missing and then I discovered why…several weeks ago while converting from reiserfs to xfs, I added a Global Share Setting to exclude disk 1 to make sure that it stayed empty in preparation for removing the drive from the array. I forgot to remove this global exclusion before starting the array with the new disk assignments. So the good news is I understand why files are missing from some of my shares (I browsed disk 1 and see the files are actually in their appropriate share folders). So I assume once the parity sync completes successfully, I can stop the array and remove the global disk share exclusion and be all set, however due to redownloading the windows 7 iso, virtio iso, and adding folders to my plex docker, I will now have duplicate files when I remove this exclusion. I assume I could always delete the known duplicates before removing this global disk exclusion??? Plex I am not worried about as I have no issue blowing out the docker container and rescanning my media folders. Does this approach make sense? Is there anything else I need to consider? I assume letting the parity sync complete is better than canceling it...removing the duplicates and exclusion and then restarting the parity sync (I am currently 16% complete on the parity sync and it is going to take a day to complete). Thanks, Dan

Update: I believe I have my USB Passthrough issue solved. I am posting so others can learn from my issue. Over the past couple of weeks a couple of users have indicated that when passing through the GPU to make sure that you also passed the HDMI audio. This made me take pause and look at my VM xml file and I noticed that I was not doing this. My reason for not passing the hdmi audio on the GPU was that I was using DVI for my video connection and the 3.5mm audio from the motherboard…so since I was not using HDMI audio, under the soundcard section of the VM template, I was passing my motherboard soundcard. I never realized that there was a plus sign next to the soundcard in the vm setup to pass multiple soundcard devices. Once I passed the GPU’s HDMI audio along with the motherboard’s built-in soundcard, I was able to edit my VM xml file to passthrough the USB PCIe card. It has been 48 hours since I made this change and my system has been stable with USB passthrough and no issues with Unraid stability(previously it crashed after an hour or two). For reference the passthrough GPU was a Powercolor HD5450. I know some users indicated that they did not have any luck with this GPU and I am wondering if it was because they did not pass the HDMI audio through in the soundcard section of the VM template. I will come back and mark this thread as solved if I have a week without a crash. Dan

I am new to VM's so take this comment with a grain of salt....isn't each PCI device that is passed through supposed to have its own address, i.e. for the usb pci shouldn't it be addr=00.2 See step 11 in this guide: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36768.0 Dan

I have a disk that I am unable to mount. Here is the reason based on this entry in my syslog: Dec 15 17:12:44 Tower kernel: XFS (sdh1): Filesystem has duplicate UUID 92664c40-aa6f-436a-b4f9-e8b7cd8e6758 - can't mount I had a problem with a disk...so I unassigned it and replaced the disk with one that was the same a WB Black 1 TB and had unraid rebuild the disk. I now want to create MD5 checksums to compare the disks but am unable to mount the original drive. Does rebuilding a disk give it the same uuid? Any suggestions as to how to mount this original disk with this plugin? Thanks, Dan