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No, I didn't check any of that because I've had my server up and running since 2009 without this issue. It only came into play when I went to the v5. I need Joe or someone to tell me where this is failing based on the screenshot. I'm hoping they will know where in the bzroot loading it stopped. I would think that if I had any issues with the items you listed, I would see a lot more troubles. As mentioned, when my server does boot, it works just fine.

Ok, I've had a boot issue evey since I left 4.7 Final. Sometimes my system will freeze on the loading of the bzroot file, several dots go across the screen and then it will show this screen and freeze, see attached screenshot, sorry it's not more clear. Can anyone tell me what is causing this to stop? I have to hold the power button down to kill it and then try again. Most of the time, it will boot normal.

The 8168 test is for people with realtek hardware that doesn't work properly, I think this is the 8169 driver being replaced by the 8168 driver. You don't need the 8168 release unless you're affected by this particular issue. Thanks, that is what I figured but wanted to confirm. What is weird is I have a realtek network port on my Super Micro C2SEE motherboard, yet I do not have any network driver issues. This is what the specs are for my mb, Network Controllers 1 x Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit Ethernet Supports 10 BASE-T, 100 BASE-TX, and 1000 BASE-T with RJ45 output By the way, its mentioned above about a v5 rc6 release. That release isn't out yet, only rc6 TEST is out re what I see on this forum. The rest of us are on v5 rc5.

I no longer receive the email notifications during a Partiy check. I do get the hourly "I'm OK" emails. Also, if you change the time in between notifications, for example from 1 hour to every 4 hours, the plugin dies and stopps sending any emails until you reboot the server. Anyone else have this issue?

Discovered a new issue today with email notify. I'll post this in that forum, but wanted to see if anyone else has this issue. The email notify works fine, sends emails every hour by default. If you are running a Parity check, it no longer sends email notifications for Partiy Sync updates (progress). You continue to receive the normal "I'm OK" emails even during a parity check. Another issue with this same plugin is if you change the amount of time in between email notifications, for example change it so it only emails you every 4 hours instead of every hour, the plugin dies. It stops sending emails altogether and until you reboot the server. Stopping and starting the services doesn't help. On a separate topic, I also have a freezing issue on boot up when loading the controller drivers. I posted that questiopn in the rc6 thread...

Hey Joe, I need to swap my Parity drive and add another data drive. Any news on when you might have a button for PreClear?

sorry, but just checking in after being gone a few days...and now I see rc6 8168 test. I'm running rc5. Is this release for a specific group, or should everyone now be on this new TEST release? My only issue so far is when I reboot. Sometimes the system halts at boot and the screen shows it was at the point of loading the hd controller. I have to cycle the power. It sometimes takes a few attempts and then it will boot normally. The array never reaches the point to come online so I guess it's not critical in terms of screwing with your data, but it sure sucks. I will take a screenshot next time it does it to share. I have the Super C2SEE and a Adaptec RAID 1430SA card. I'm at 12TB with 8 drives in the array + parity drive + cache drive. Anyone else have this problem?

is this thread dead or what?? No replies worries me that we will keep this alive. Anyone know where the Plex server log is stored re our Unraid setup? I'm troubleshooting some choppy playback and need to review the logs. Thanks!

Hi Joe! Yes please! Please do write one. Thanks!

so there is currently no plugin for PreClear for version 5? if true, then we cannot peform a preclear in version 5. Like I had said, I have never done it, took my chances on previous drive swaps. I just thought if it were easy, I'd do it for my next drive swap.

so the preclear process is still Command line, no button option appear when a new drive is detected?

what is the current recomended process for version 5 then? I think the only thing we skip is the preclear stuff. Is that easy to do with v5?

I'm sometimes getting chopy playback and Plex has been running a long time. I'm thinking I need to monitor my cpu and memory to find out. I see the cpu and memory graphs on the Stats page. How much memory is recommended? I only have 4gb of ram so perhaps I need more. Anyone else notice performance issues re resources?

Cool, did you follow the same steps as I listed? Did you do the pre-clear, and if yes, how?

Has anyone had to replace a drive yet with version 5? Is the process the same as before, or has it changed? In short, this is what I've done in the past; -run a parity check -power down and replace drive -power up and confirm unraid can see the new drive -Some people run a pre-clear process, but I've never done that and don't even know how... If we should do this step, I hope this is a button for this and no command line junk is needed. -Rebuild the drive -When all done, I run another parity check -done. Thanks

another dumb question....after I add new movies to my folder, do I have to manually tell Plex to rescan the folder to pick up the new ones? Or does it scan on some schedule? The mannual process works but I have to go into Plex on the server and tell it to Update Selection to tell it to scan everything again. This takes a long time too. I have this all working now, I think. I'm able to view my movies from my pc, iphone, ipad, etc. The plugin server side of things seem to be ok. I guess I still have to manually stop Plex and Start it for reboots. I also need to move the temp and lib folders to the cache drive so my array will go to sleep. Oh, for updates to this solution, I would expect I just drop the new updated file in the extra folder and that's it....correct?

ok, I think Plex is running now, as it says this at the bottom when viewing the icon in Settings, Plex Media Server is running with version v0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 Is that the latest / best version? Also, I have a stupid question. All of my movies are stored on a Share, which means the files are actually located on several disks. Within Plex config, how do I point the Plex server to the movie Share? I tried \\ip address\Share but that didn't work. The Plex screen is blank, showing no content at all. I created library and temp folds on disk 5 and pointed Plex to those. I just selected a disk for now but I would prefer to move this to the Cache drive so my array can go to sleep. For my Popcorn hour, I have the new A300. I'll check and see if there is a special app for Plex. I will be happy to test this if I can get my Plex server running correctly. Update: I figured out how to point Plex to my share /mnt/user/share_name

For the above issue, I moved that to the correct board area, the unRAID OS 5.0-rc Board area. It is now resolved. I had to remove the PHP package re unmenu. The main web gui is now there and working fine. The only surprise was that the array started on it's own. The Release Notes say that it will come up in a STOP state and I would have to Start it, after confirming drives looked ok and after adding the cache drive back. That didn't happen, again it just started. Everything looks ok however. I'm now trying to figure out the email notification stuff. Status emails and ReSync emails now all look the same, and they are not very informative. Still doesn't tell you how much time is remaining on a resync nor if there are any errors. I will also have to confirm that the other packages are ok, APC UPS, etc.

Thanks! I will try that. Unmenu will not load now, so I'll have to power off and load the usb drive in my pc. I assume the manual process to remove php package would be to just delete the files in the Packages folder (I see 4 or 5) and to delete the one file in the UnMenu folder, php-unmenu-package.conf Would that be correct?

Need a little help. I'm going from 4.7 to 5 rc5. I'm following the instructions and I'm at the point where I reboot the server. I do not have a monitor on my server so I rely on Putty or IE. I prefer just using the web gui. However, I cannot connect via my web browser. I see mostly a blank page, but there is a Lime Tech banner at the top. There is one button / link below the banner, but it's not in English so I don't know what it says. The link doesn't work. There is another button at the top right that says log, it gave me the following, Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp_event: disks_mounted Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (54): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: Restart SMB... Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (55): killall -HUP smbd Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (56): ps axc | grep -q rpc.mountd Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (56): exit status: 1 Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (57): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event svcs_restarted Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp_event: svcs_restarted Jun 24 10:22:31 Tower in.telnetd[3928]: connect from 10.11.79.167 (10.11.79.167) Jun 24 10:22:35 Tower login[3929]: ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/pts/0' from '10.11.79.167' How can I access my server via my web browser so I can continue with the upgrade? Is there a special port I need to use now when accessing via web gui? Update: Putty works fine and so does UnMenu on port 8080. The main web gui is not loading. Another scary part is that UnMenu shows my Array started. This was the part of the instructions that said it should come up at a STOP state and I will need to confirm drives are ok, reconfigure cache drivce, then START. Not sure why the array started on it's own. That said, the drives all look fine. The cache drive is not configured so it looks like it saw everything was ok and just started. I only run the UnMenu addon and the packages within there are very limited, APC, Notify, etc. I didn't change any of these prior to my upgrade. I changed the root password via telnet. syslog attached. Thanks! nowebgui.txt

woops, thanks...done

browser cache not it...even tried from my mac. I only get the top portion of the page (banner)

I just tried to go from 4.7 to 5 rc5 and got no web gui either. Putty works and I'm able to use the web browser and get to the Unmenu screen, but the main web gui is gone. WTF?

Per the instructions, I've moved this question to the unRAID OS 5.0-rc Board area. Need a little help. I'm going from 4.7 to 5 rc5. I'm following the instructions and I'm at the point where I reboot the server. I do not have a monitor on my server so I rely on Putty or IE. I prefer just using the web gui. However, I cannot connect via my web browser. I see mostly a blank page, but there is a Lime Tech banner at the top. There is one button / link below the banner, but it's not in English so I don't know what it says. The link doesn't work. There is another button at the top right that says log, it gave me the following, Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp_event: disks_mounted Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (54): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: Restart SMB... Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (55): killall -HUP smbd Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (56): ps axc | grep -q rpc.mountd Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (56): exit status: 1 Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp: shcmd (57): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event svcs_restarted Jun 24 10:14:27 Tower emhttp_event: svcs_restarted Jun 24 10:22:31 Tower in.telnetd[3928]: connect from 10.11.79.167 (10.11.79.167) Jun 24 10:22:35 Tower login[3929]: ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/pts/0' from '10.11.79.167' How can I access my server via my web browser so I can continue with the upgrade? Is there a special port I need to use now when accessing via web gui? Update: Putty works fine and so does UnMenu on port 8080. The main web gui is not loading. Another scary part is that UnMenu shows my Array started. This was the part of the instructions that said it should come up at a STOP state and I will need to confirm drives are ok, reconfigure cache drivce, then START. Not sure why the array started on it's own. That said, the drives all look fine. The cache drive is not configured so it looks like it saw everything was ok and just started. I only run the UnMenu addon and the packages within there are very limited, APC, Notify, etc. I didn't change any of these prior to my upgrade. Perhaps the first thing I need to do is set the Root password via Putty -- Yes? syslog attached. Thanks!

Hi Joe! It's been a while. I just read the release notes, and wow there are a few more steps to go from 4.7 to 5. Are these additional steps required for each upgrade going forward, or was this only to move from 4.7 to 5? I hope going forward we just have to replace the two files and not loose any users or configuration data. Thanks!