Hi all,

 

TLDR: Unraid indefinitely hangs or is stuck during the boot process at this command:

 

I have been plagued with this issue for a while now but finally it boiled over since I cannot successfully boot unraid anymore. It has been days without being able to use my server and I am very frustrated.

 

If you search for this it really does seem like there are many people with the same issue. @limetech is this a larger problem worth investigating?

 

Here is a list of related posts I have found:

1. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/50963-solved-unraid-refuses-to-boot/
2. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/72755-hang-on-reboot-fine-on-cold-boot/
3. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/114019-unraid-startup-wont-complete/
4. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/59506-server-wont-boot-stuck-at-syslogd/
5. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/88212-boot-stops-in-syslog-on-second-boot-asus-rs720/

 

Here are a list of things I tried:

• Put your flash drive in your PC and let it checkdisk (chkdsk [drive] /f /r /x)
• Plugging flash into PC, make backup of your 'config' folder.  Then reformat the usb flash - volume label UNRAID - then copy over release from zip file.  Click 'make_bootable' as administrator (don't forget this step), then drag your 'config' file backup to the flash

 

I am pretty desperate at this point and would love any help.

 

Thank you!

Like every morning for the past week. Before I take the dog out I turn on the server and cross my fingers. This morning the server successfully booted up!

 

No changes since last time.

 

Is there something I can enable or do to add extra logging or verbose debug statements during future boot ups? This is still a serious problem.

 

Thanks

If it is currently running, you should post your diagnostics, they will give us a more complete idea of your hardware and configuration.

Here are my diagnostics.

 

Thank you!

unraid-diagnostics-20211016-1416.zip

See if it makes any difference between having rclone installed or not.

Following up here.

 

I uninstalled rclone and did a full shutdown (not reboot). One thing to note is that I stopped the array before clicking shutdown to make sure containers had been stopped.

 

That shutdown/restart worked flawlessly, first time in over a year!

 

I will keep playing with it this weekend and try to see if I can reproduce it:

- reboot vs shutdown

- stopping array before shutdown vs not

- having rclone installed vs not