Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Unraid

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Can't reach GUI. Dead flash drive?

Featured Replies

So a few days ago I was over at a friends house playing some Minecraft off a server hosted on my Unraid server. We started getting disconnected, so I went home figuring the internet equipment just needed to be restarted. Roommate confirmed that it had been acting up. Reboot network equipment, and it still kicks my friend off after about 45 seconds. The network does seem to be stable now though, so I rebooted Unraid from the web UI. It did not come back. 

 

After reboot it showed just a terminal interface (should be a VM with GPU passthrough.) Could not connect to Web UI, boot in GUI mode can't connect to localhost..  So I pulled the flashdrive and took a look from my desktop. Chdsk repaired some errors (crap) but things look off.  It has renamed itself back to tower and there seem to be a lot of missing files.

 

Just got my new drive in and loaded up a fresh install and oh are there things missing from the old one.  So rebuild great just what I want to do.  I can't seem to find a backup of the old flash drive, but there may be one somewhere on either the array or the cache drive.  

 

Can any of you much more intelligent people than me help find a way to get things booted back without loosing my array?

 

I did find an old diagnostics folder from before so maybe that can help here? Including the diagnostics that I got off just recently and an older one that seems to still have some configuration in it.

 

 

TLDR: I think my flash drive died and I can't find a backup, but there might be one on the array.

tower-diagnostics-20210728-1741.zip ares-diagnostics-20210321-2150.zip

  • Community Expert

Have you changed any disk assignments since that older diagnostic?

  • Community Expert
1 minute ago, trurl said:

Have you changed any disk assignments since that older diagnostic?

Doesn't look like it. Take a look in the SMART folder in those old diagnostics and you can see your disk assignments.

 

You can create a new install on that flash and use those same disk assignments to get your array started again. Do you have a copy of your license .key file?

  • Author
2 minutes ago, trurl said:

Doesn't look like it. Take a look in the SMART folder in those old diagnostics and you can see your disk assignments.

 

You can create a new install on that flash and use those same disk assignments to get your array started again. Do you have a copy of your license .key file?

Thank you for your help.

So I think that older diagnostic is from right after (ish) I upgraded my parity to an 8TB. Found the drive assignments in the folder, there are two there though that aren't numbered. Not supper sure about those.  I have a couple of places to look for the license file will check but not high hopes.

  • Author

Okay, so I actually found the license key file! So one thing goes right.

  • Community Expert
14 minutes ago, xplicitsomebody said:

two there though that aren't numbered

 

Here is that same information from syslog. disk0 is parity. sdh (serial ending R2E1) wasn't assigned. Note that the sd identifier can change, only serial number is used to identify disks. I think sr0 is dvd drive.

Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: Device inventory:
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA1JJJA0 (sdj) 512 15628053168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K5HTR2E1 (sdh) 512 7814037168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_500GB_S3Z1NB0K146251A (sdg) 512 976773168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K7FRZ775 (sdd) 512 7814037168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: ST2000DM006-2DM164_Z4Z7NZA3 (sde) 512 3907029168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K6RFERDK (sdb) 512 7814037168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K0PJ5J27 (sdf) 512 7814037168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: TOSHIBA_MK5059GSX_1088P15RT (sdc) 512 976773168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K2YREU4P (sdi) 512 7814037168
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: Generic_Flash_Disk_F497B9B2-0:0 (sda) 512 30720000
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (1): import 0 sdj 64 7814026532 0 ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA1JJJA0
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk0: (sdj) ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA1JJJA0 size: 7814026532 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (2): import 1 sde 64 1953514552 0 ST2000DM006-2DM164_Z4Z7NZA3
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk1: (sde) ST2000DM006-2DM164_Z4Z7NZA3 size: 1953514552 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (3): import 2 sdb 64 3907018532 0 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K6RFERDK
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk2: (sdb) WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K6RFERDK size: 3907018532 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (4): import 3 sdc 64 488386552 0 TOSHIBA_MK5059GSX_1088P15RT
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk3: (sdc) TOSHIBA_MK5059GSX_1088P15RT size: 488386552 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (5): import 4 sdf 64 3907018532 0 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K0PJ5J27
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk4: (sdf) WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K0PJ5J27 size: 3907018532 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (6): import 5 sdd 64 3907018532 0 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K7FRZ775
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk5: (sdd) WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K7FRZ775 size: 3907018532 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (7): import 6 sdi 64 3907018532 0 WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K2YREU4P
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import disk6: (sdi) WDC_WD40EFRX-68N32N0_WD-WCC7K2YREU4P size: 3907018532 
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (8): import 7
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (9): import 8
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (10): import 9
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (11): import 10
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (12): import 11
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (13): import 12
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (14): import 13
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (15): import 14
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (16): import 15
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (17): import 16
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (18): import 17
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (19): import 18
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (20): import 19
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (21): import 20
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (22): import 21
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (23): import 22
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (24): import 23
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (25): import 24
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (26): import 25
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (27): import 26
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (28): import 27
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (29): import 28
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: mdcmd (30): import 29
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares kernel: md: import_slot: 29 empty
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: import 30 cache device: (sdg) Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_500GB_S3Z1NB0K146251A
Feb 19 09:53:31 Ares emhttpd: import flash device: sda

 

  • Author

Yes! Okay, so I got it spun up and yes the R2E1 was not assigned and i'm pretty sure that sr0 is in fact the DVD drive. Throughs me a bit that it would have an entry in the smart folder though. Found the backup as well now just figuring out how to properly recover with it. 

  • Author

Okay this is resolved, I am back up and running. Thank you so much for your assistance trurl.

  • Community Expert

You might consider storing flash backup somewhere other than on the server you can't boot because of flash problems.

 

Have you looked into the My Servers plugin?

 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.