Looking for help after running into some issues when changing a data drive this weekend.

 

I was swapping out a data drive for a larger drive which I thought would be a simple process (as have done a number of times before).

 

When doing this though I found that the USB my OS runs on was slightly bent and the USB case itself starting to fall apart (I have had this Unraid server running for 9 or so years). I was able to get the USB into my local machine holding the pins together and copied all the files over onto the local machine. I then reformatted another USB drive to FAT32 and copied all files over. I ran the make_bootable file and got the server turned on. I had to get a replacement key via LimeTech which all seemed to be working fine. The server connected fine and started the parity sync/rebuild for the new drive. 

 

I thought everything was fine last I saw it was at approximately 60% through the rebuild but after going out for a bit I came back and my server was disconnected and I couldn't access the GUI. I had to hard reboot the machine and thought the rebuild would pick up where it left off. 

 

When the server reboots I get a green message stating 'Parity sync/data rebuild finished (0 errors) Duration 12 hours, 9 minutes, 20 seconds. Average speed: nan B/s'

 

Starting the array again kicks off the parity sync/rebuild but now it gets to about 0.1% and the does not move past that. I've also noticed some that when it gets to this point although the time elapsed counter continues to move the GUI of Unraid becomes almost unresponsive - I can move between menus fine, but if I try and pause or cancel the parity sync nothing happens, same if I try and reboot or shutdown from the GUI.

 

I'm a bit at a loss at whether this is an issue with the data rebuild and something happened while that was working or whether this is connected with the OS USB change. I've attached diagnostics and sys log

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20211109-2216.zip tower-syslog-20211109-2217.zip

So to add to this the GUI is definitely very unresponsive - if I try and carry out any kind of action it seems to freeze up - examples - trying to run Fix Common Problems plugin - updating any dockers.

 

I tried rebooting the machine and not assigned the disk I was swapping to see if that would resolve the GUI issues (ie caused by the rebuild) but with that disk unassigned if I run the read-check then the same thing happens - it kicks off gets to approx 2GB in the 'current position' and then stops moving any further

Slight update, I have booted the server in Safe Mode with GUI with a monitor plugged in and started the data rebuild - this has moved past the 0.1% mark which at least is an improvement and is currently around 3% through. I will let this run and see if this can complete the rebuild and then hopefully make it easier to diagnose the issue with the GUI remotely