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Yes, I am using SMB. For the syslog, I'm confused, to say the least. I provided the log from my server on the 13th 4:40. I didn't restart at 4:40 am, I was in bed. The starting point shows Restart at the beginning and then right up to Aug 14 7:36pm (ish) when I had tried to trigger the SMB to re-share everything, and then when that didn't work I restarted the server. There is no other syslog on my system for this timeframe. What is really weird, is the log before this was dated Aug 7, then and that one ends on Aug 7 6:45am. Then the one I uploaded here started on Aug 13 4:40. Where is the log for in between Aug 7 6:45 to Aug 13 4:40?? I'm looking in boot\logs\ Why and how could a syslog be missing? My server did not crash and was running the entire time. Has anyone had a syslog just dissapear? Maybe this is related to why the SMB stopped working. Again, when looking at the system at that time, my shares were all gone. The reboot brought them back. How can you tell that it isn't complete? What is the size limit before it splits and creates a new syslog file?

no, I actually wans't even home and my family went to watch a movie and said it was erroring out. When I got home I found that we were unable to reach any shares, from the pch the pc, etc. This happened all on it's own. the reboot fixed it but that should not of happened. I'm still waiting to see if anyone can figure out any clues from my syslog, but so far no luck.

same for me, all betas have been very solid. The only issue I have had is my shares dissapeared the other day and I don't have a reason as to why yet, as nobody can seem to tell from my syslog what happened. The SimpleFeatures and the bugs that go with those plugins are my only issue, as indicated in above posts. I still vote for FINAL.

Ok what do they mean?? Can anyone tell me what these entries mean and what I should do about it?

I'm getting the The ioctl errors too. When is the update expected to be released to resolve this? Thanks!

Ok what do they mean?? Yes, this is when I stopped and rebooted. Ok, I will look into that. thanks.

Yes, I've installed most of them, except the iTunes ones. I'm also runing Plex and APC, and that's it. All of these have been in place since I went to v5. I've actually had no issues with any of them or my server for that matter. This is the real first issue I've had. I hope the log shows something about why the shares would demon would just stop and why the server would think it has no shares anymore, just weird.

Ok, I've been voting to get this FINAL for a while now because I've had no issues. That changed today. My shares dissapeared so I went to my unraid server via web gui and I could see my shares, but my popcorn hour couldn't find the share and my pc also said the share did not exist. So I decided to pick the movie share and just hit Apply under the section where you select who has access. This used to be a good trip to get the share stuff going again in the older versions. This time I got an error saying the share had been deleted! WTF! So went back to the share list and they were all gone. I instantly just stopped the array and did a reboot. After the reboot all shares were back and everything seems normal. I have no idea why the server would just stop sharing the shares and why the web gui was reporting no shares exists. My server had been running a couple days and I've not had this issue since before 4.7 Final and certinaly not with v5. The good thing is my shares were really not deleted and the reboot fixed it. the question is WHY.... syslog attached I hope it helps idenfity what happened. Thanks! syslog-20120814-193624.zip

AGREED! :-)

This is a quiet thread for a rc, so this is very close to FINAL from the looks of it. Solid build so far for me. The only thing I haven't tested was NFS, but others have so good enough. 1 vote for FINAL here.

thank you sir! That was well explained.

sllighly off topic...sorry I was using only NFS with 4.7, then when I went to v5 I just used the default and only working solution - SMB, at the time. It seems that all NFS issues are now resolved, but I haven't seen any reason to switch back. Is there really any advantage of using NFS over SMB anyways? My pch, mobile, and my win7 pc have no issues with SMB.

HD swap went just fine with this release, parity rebuild did just what it needed and all continues to be good.....are we FINAL yet? I agree with PeterB, I don't see much complaining going on right now. This release seems very solid to me.

All, just for the record, this was my bad on the new flash drive and had nothing to do with this release. Tom sent me a new key and all is good again. Time to swap a very old hard drive today, so hope that goes well. I've rebooted about 8 times now and went through everything, can't find anything wrong. I think we are extremely close to calling this FINAL. Awesome work guys!

Ok, I wasn't sure if this issue was related to the new rc6 release or not. Which forum should it be in then? I setup my server back in 2009 and I don't recall ever having to do anything with a key. That said, your reply makes sense to me. I just now need to confirm that was the issue. Thanks for your reply.

I'm running v5 rc6 test now, no issues with the new build. I did have a weird thing happen when I tried to use my new flash drive. Re above, I prepared the flash drive and then copied all the files from my existing flash drive to the new one. I then replaced the two main files bzroot and bzimage with the files from v5 rc6 test. The system booted normally but after the server was running, the ARray was not running and it only saw 2 of my 9 drives. So I just did a Shutdown, put the old flash drive back in (updated those files with v5 rc6) and it came up fine, Array was running and it sees all drives. The new flash drive should have worked, unless there is something weird about having a fat32 64gb size drive. I even made sure that my config files were the ones from my old (working) flash drive. I'd like to understand why the new flash drive didn't work. Syslog attached. Thanks! syslog-20120724-184538_newflash.zip

I don't have the HP Format tool. Ok, how about FAT32? I was able to use my imac to format it to fat32. If that won't work, I'll go find the HP tool. Thanks update: the make_bootable batch file worked with it being FAT32. I've copied everything and as soon as my parity check is complete, I'll reboot using this flash and this new release. Almost there....

ExFAT is not FAT. FAT is required. Ah, I didn't remember that. Man, I setup my original flash drive back in 2009 and have drank way too many beers since then...LOL Ok, so my options in Win7 64bit OS to format this flash drive is exFAT or NTFS. No FAT option exists. I was expected to see FAT32 listed as a option at least, wtf. I guess I will need to find another system that will allow me to format in FAT.

Ok, I'm going to move to this version and I would like to use a new flash drive. I have a Kingston 64 (super crazy read / write speeds) and I thought I would do a mostly fresh installation. Allow me to define mostly. I want to use the make_bootable.bat and start with all fresh files from the AiO. The only thing I want to take with me is the config directory, as it has my share, disk, and other config files. I'm already running v5 rc5. I just thought I would interduce a new flash drive for the new release. My existing flash drive is from 2009 and has been in my unraid server the entire time. I formatted the flash drive as instructed, leave format as default which is exFAT. I then copied all the files from the AiO to the flash. Set volume name to UNRAID. I go to a Command prompt (yes I ran as Admin). When I run the batch file, it confirms everything and issues the syslinux.exe command. I then get a error that says...This doesn't look like a Valid FAT file system, then errrors out and ends. Did I miss something?

I must be missing something but I had the unmenu APC plugin working fine until I upgraded to v5. Unmenu is all gone and I have the SimpleFeatures installed, as well as Plex. I just can't figure out how to get the APC plugin working. When I go to the page that has the list of plugins for v5, the APC is listed but with no download link or instructions. Ok, you can download the picture of the APC battery icon, but that's it. Does any one have the APC plugin working with v5? I havce a brand new APC NS 600. I need to get that configured to auto shutdown when we lose power. Thanks!

I guess we have to wait for the guy who created this plugin to fix it.

post a syslog. As far as I know, it has NOT yet started upgrading parity if the array is not started. It is waiting for you. Joe L. Exactly, as I said it was not started and I wasn't sure if I should start it or wait. I would wait if it was busy doing something. I guess the thing to do was Start it, so I just did. It's building the partiy now..... Update: The parity build process completed with no issues. I'm now running a parity check for the first time on this new parity drive. All good so far... Update: Everything completed fine. The parity drive swap worked with no issues. I have now moved to v5 rc6, so moving on to then next thread...

Ok, I had to replace my parity drive today, v5 rc5. I did a parity check and zero errors. Powered down, swapped the drives, power up. The array was not started and showed a Red dot next to the missing drive it was looking for, as expected. I selected the new drive as the Parity drive (drop down list). At the bottom next to where it says the array is STOPPED, it says Upgrading Parity... The syslog is jamming by so it must be doing something. hd led light is flashing regularly too. My question is, should I Start the Aray and Start the Partiy Sync, or wait until the Upgrading Parity task is complete? Thanks!

Ok, I'll do all of that and report back. By the way, is there a APC UPS plugin that works with v5? I can't seem find it re Searching. Everything I find is for unmenu, 4.x. I just got a new ups today APC NS 600. I need to get that configured to auto shutdown when we lose power. Thanks!

hi Joe, So would you recommend that I move to rc6 TEST? If that release fixed issues for you and you have the same mb as me, then perhaps I should use that build. So that I understand, when you did have the issue, your network connection would actually drop? I don't think I've ever had that issue where my server dropped off the network. Thanks