On rebooting, my server comes up - the shares work, I can ssh into the box, etc. But the web interface doesn't come up. Can anyone help me figure out how to bring it back?

 

How I got into this: I was trying to do some backups onto an external USB harddisk. Apparently the front-mount USB ports on my machine are flaky, and the device kept disappearing, then coming back. I moved it to the rear ports, where it was stable, but when I checked the external disk's filesystem there were lots of errors that were taking forever to fix. So I figured I'd just delete the partition and recreated it. But doing so while the fs repairs were still running angered the OS, with the log file advising me to reboot, so I did.

 

When I rebooted the web interface came up fine, but the array didn't. I figured out that this was because I've got 6 real devices, with the external disk being a 7th, thus exceeding my license. So I told it to shutdown, I removed the external device, and powered it up again.

 

Since this point, the system is coming up: I can ssh as I said, I can read and write to its shares, and from the ssh session I can see that it's also successfully connected to a separate NAS box in the house.

 

Another oddity I notice is that the CPU is constantly busy, from 30%-50%. This is a relatively weak machine, it's just intended as a NAS, but I don't recall seeing it busy like that before unless it's verifying the array parity or something (perhaps that's exactly what it's doing, and I don't know because I can't see the web interface?). There are two processes taking up almost all of this: unraidd0 and mdrecoveryd.

 

I don't even know where to look for the logs that would pertain to starting the web interface (or anything else for that matter). Can anyone offer guidance?

Edited January 23, 20224 yr by MoebiusStreet

9 hours ago, MoebiusStreet said:

But the web interface doesn't come up.

What does come up? Anything?  You should post your diagnostics (you can grab them via the command line)

3 hours ago, Squid said:

You should post your diagnostics (you can grab them via the command line)

Can anybody tell me where to find them via the command line?

 

BTW, I can confirm that the high CPU load must have been from parity checking, because this morning it's back to normal in that respect.

Can anybody tell me where to find them via the command line?
 
BTW, I can confirm that the high CPU load must have been from parity checking, because this morning it's back to normal in that respect.

Type ‘diagnostics’ at the command line.


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Hmmm. It won't let me do that:

 

root@jabba:~# sudo su
root@jabba:~# diagnostics
Starting diagnostics collection... mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/boot/logs’: Input/output error
done.
ZIP file '/boot/logs/jabba-diagnostics-20220123-1226.zip' created.
root@jabba:~# cd  /boot/logs
bash: cd: /boot/logs: No such file or directory

 

It might be worth using the ‘df’ command to check that the flash drive is mounted at /boot?   The messages you give suggest that it is either not online, or has problems.

I'm not sure if this is correct, but it looks reasonable:

 

root@jabba:~# df
Filesystem         1K-blocks       Used  Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs               5636072     879676    4756396  16% /
devtmpfs             5636080          0    5636080   0% /dev
tmpfs                5710776          0    5710776   0% /dev/shm
cgroup_root             8192          0       8192   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                 131072      23372     107700  18% /var/log
/dev/sda1            3907100     619744    3287356  16% /boot
overlay              5636072     879676    4756396  16% /lib/modules
overlay              5636072     879676    4756396  16% /lib/firmware
tmpfs                   1024          0       1024   0% /mnt/disks
tmpfs                   1024          0       1024   0% /mnt/remotes
/dev/md1          3905110812 3207670612  697440200  83% /mnt/disk1
/dev/md2          3905110812 2834683480 1070427332  73% /mnt/disk2
/dev/md3          5858435620 2931119740 2927315880  51% /mnt/disk3
/dev/md4          3905110812  278353664 3626757148   8% /mnt/disk4
/dev/sde1          117220792   10697084  105500996  10% /mnt/cache
shfs             17573768056 9251827496 8321940560  53% /mnt/user0
shfs             17573768056 9251827496 8321940560  53% /mnt/user
//THOTH/Media     2879515136 2416516620  462998516  84% /mnt/remotes/THOTH_Media
//THOTH/Other     2879515136 2416516620  462998516  84% /mnt/remotes/THOTH_Other
//THOTH/Pictures  2879515136 2416516620  462998516  84% /mnt/remotes/THOTH_Pictures

 

Editing to add: I should have thought to look inside that drive, too. And I can do so, but the contents don't look legit (and if these are the contents, how did I actually boot?)

root@jabba:/boot# ls -al
total 4
drwx------  9 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root  480 Jan 23 12:26 ..

 

Edited January 23, 20224 yr by MoebiusStreet

2 hours ago, MoebiusStreet said:

Editing to add: I should have thought to look inside that drive, too. And I can do so, but the contents don't look legit (and if these are the contents, how did I actually boot?)

root@jabba:/boot# ls -al
total 4
drwx------  9 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root  480 Jan 23 12:26 ..

It must have been online during the boot-tocess, but it looks as if it may have now dropped offline since none of the expected contents are showing.