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Running fine in safe mode, no activity, all drives spun down

ideally i dont want to run in safemode constantly ? i just spun down all the drives and they have all spun up again, it was never doing this, three of the drives have errors though they are not red balled so i assume they are just warnings. Is it being caused because i only have one stick of 8GB RAM in it ?

Well its been up and fine for well over a week and running in normal mode with no crashes after removing one stick of RAM... however, i started to notice the drives were chattering away by themselves and the GUI become less and less responsive, its not crashed like it was doing before but its not usuable and pressing power wont shut it down, the drives are going mad, have had to hard shut down and started up but stopped parity check this time, syslog and diags attached. loading things is painfully slow and just gets slower syslog syslog-previous warptower-diagnostics-20240602-1047.zip

Well, that would be a bummer and about my luck...at least i have stability for now, running on one stick of 8GB

So, popped the lid, removed one of the two RAM sticks, fired up server in safe mode and left all dockers running, been up for two days now, started a parity check yesterday and has finished, do the diags look better ? next i will swap sticks over, could it also be the RAM slot and not the actual RAM ? warptower-diagnostics-20240521-0902.zip

so i started in safe mode GUI no plugins, there were no VM's running (stopped) and i stopped all the dockers, parity check started but its just hung at 2.3%, it never completes parity check, it either hangs or the server crashes and have to hard reboot...safe to say its not the dockers or anything ?...time to start testing the RAM sticks ? warptower-diagnostics-20240512-1545.zip

testing RAM sticks is my next move, i have done memtest previously and found no error, when you say start in safe with dockers disabled, is that to say i start safe mode with GUI but no plugins and then disable the dockers manually one by one ?

warptower-diagnostics-20240511-1535.zip syslog So GUI is unresponsive and i hooked up a monitor to the server, thats just a black screen, i tried to SSH into server and it prompted for my user/pass but just hung when i entered password, shares were still working and showing in windows and i fired up a few files, i had to hard boot the server so the diags are from after that, i had enabled syslog server some time ago so i added that too.

Now this is odd... servers been up in safe mode for 4 days, i just went into the GUI and looked at my dockers but it seemed to snarl up, now the GUI is unresponsive and wont load at all but i can see all my shares in windows, i just went into a disk and clicked something and i can could hear the disk spin up so its still working somewhere.

Ok, that i will try, so is it pointless me just leaving the server with the disks unmouted to see if it crashes like this ? I do actually want to upgrade the board to one with two .M2 slots...any recommendations ?

I have been running on this equipment, mobo etc without issue for a good few years, this all started about 18 months ago, i use the server quite a bit so trying to get to bottom of it is frustrating, i am at the point of throwing money at it now

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Wow..have i been bumbling along like this for a year ! My server is still crashing constantly, daily if not left in safe mode, in safe mode i might get longer between crashes, parity usualy hangs at a certain point pretty much all the time, i have checked the BIOS for the C states but as far as i can see they are not enabled, couldnt really find the exact field to look as described in the thread for it, as you can see C states were off and had been anyway, restore AC power loss was set to power off. Now some of the drives have errors, i have spare drives to replace them and i actually want to change my parity drive to a 10TB disk, however, i am not sure if it wise to do this whilst its crashing like this ?, if it crashes whilst replacing parity i think i might be up the creek without a paddle, its been said it is 'probably' hardware issue, i had done memtest and looked at all the other suggestions, would the hard drives cause this crashing ? should i boot the server to get GUI but NOT mount the disks and leave for a few days, if the disks were causing the issue then not being mounted would they be out of play for the cause ? i am even looking to see if replacing the motherboard will resolve the issue but where do start with these kind of problems, the power supply was replaced very recently when it was found to be dropping out and causing disk error, the new psu resolved this. The attached syslof is the server booted without the drives mounted. warptower-diagnostics-20240506-1308.zip

So, it was up for over six days in safe mode and crashed again last night.. if this is hardware related where would the logical place be to start ? I have a 10TB drive i want to use to replace my parity drive, im guessing its not wise to do so whilst it is exhibiting this behaviour ? syslog (1) warptower-diagnostics-20230425-1348.zip

Thats going to be a headache if it is hardware related... where do you even start looking, i suppose i could remove the memory and just start with one stick and see if it persists, adding a stick at a time. Would be good if it was the mobo because i am looking at upgrading that to one with two .m2 slots

Ah, sorry, i forgot i had enabled this, is this syslog of any use ? it should show the times i have had to hard reboot the server syslog

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The server has been in use so i have not been able to do what you said yet, however, whilst in safe mode gui mode (no plugins) it has still been crashing, it just takes a longer time to do it. syslog warptower-diagnostics-20230114-1305.zip

Right, its been up for nearly 20 hours now, parity check has completed and no errors. All dockers are functional but no plugins installed, i chose safemode GUI no plugins. syslog

im still trying to find fan regulators for the 3 fans that face the drives, its like sitting next to a jet engine if they are just plugged in without any speed control

so i started it in gui mode no plugins, should i still start the array though or just leave it like that ?

the only thing i can think that is different..i set up next cloud, but recently i created a link for someone to upload files to me, about 40gb.... would this cause the server to crash ?

Well its crashed again, less than 30 mins uptime..i took it out before restarting this time and its populated now... syslog

I followed these instructions.. Go to Settings->Network Services->Syslog Server You can click on the 'Help' icon on the Toolbar and get more information for all of the options. Mirror to Flash: This is the simplest to set up. You select 'Yes' from the dropdown box and click on the 'Apply' button and the syslog will be mirrored to the logs folder/directory of the flash drive and is appended to on a reboot. There is one principal disadvantage to this method. If the condition, that you are trying to troubleshoot, takes days to weeks to occur, it can do a lot of writes to the flash drive. Some folks are hesitant to use the flash drive in this manner as it may shorten the life of the flash drive. The advantage of this approach is that it captures everything from the start of the boot process which can be important if trying to diagnose boot problems. Have i missed something ?...i hard shut down the server as it had crashed and then removed the flash drive to get the file off.

I turned on syslog server and have attached the log from the flash drive, there was also a diags on there to so have uploaded it also, there server crashed about 2 hours after turning on syslog server. syslog warptower-diagnostics-20221229-1210.zip