Parity check not finishing

[JorgeB]

You need to find a way to create a new flash drive.

[loady]

45 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

You need to find a way to create a new flash drive.

the same drives wont let me make them bootable on my laptop or an old clunky win7 PC.  I have just download the usb creator tool and it shows two of the three flash drives as incompatible, the third one let me create the flash drive and it has booted now, though i cant access the GUI with the IP address. Do i back up the original flash drive, use the usb creator for the latest release (or the one you suggested to roll back too) then copy back the back up ?

Edited December 21, 2022 by loady

[JorgeB]

34 minutes ago, loady said:

Do i back up the original flash drive, use the usb creator for the latest release (or the one you suggested to roll back too) then copy back the back up ?

Worth a try since the cant access the GUI with the IP address is yet another issue.

[loady]

2 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Worth a try since the cant access the GUI with the IP address is yet another issue.

I got in, it wasnt letting me becasue my original installation was https// and now it wants http//, once i cleared the cache it seems fine now

 

So i have let the usb tool wipe and re-create the original flash drive, this time it doesnt seem to finish, just hangs on syncing file system, the one that is in now is 8GB and working, the old one is 32GB but its been a good 15 minutes sat like this..should it take this long ? if this other flashdrive is working fine can i just transfer the key to it and then copy whatever files i need from the backup ?

 

 

 

[JorgeB]

Try this

 

[loady]

18 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Try this

 

That worked thank you.  Now the server is booting from the original flash drive,  what do i need from the dump of the flash drive i made after i had over written all the bz* files ?bare in mind this back was made AFTER i over wrote the bz* files. For now i have just used the latest release of unraid just so i can use the server, i will monitor if the issue i had that caused me to roll back is resolved, if not i will go back to it over christmas.

[JorgeB]

To restore the old setting you just the to restore the /config folder from the backup.

[loady]

 

On 12/22/2022 at 11:49 AM, JorgeB said:

To restore the old setting you just the to restore the /config folder from the backup.

 

So it seems the issue is still there, i am going to try again to roll it back to the version you suggested, just to be sure, i download the version i need and overwrite ONLY ALL the *bz files and the changes.txt file. Last time i did it it wouldnt boot.

[JorgeB]

32 minutes ago, loady said:

i need and overwrite ONLY ALL the *bz files and the changes.txt file

correct

[loady]

On 12/27/2022 at 11:18 AM, JorgeB said:

correct

I still have the same issue and the server is on 6.10.3 now, i thought the problem was gone, it started doing a parity check and when i last looked it was at 38%, when i checked again later it was at 3%, i looked as thought it had either finished and just started another one or the server restarted itself, anyway, as of now i cant access the server and will have to hard reboot it

Edited December 29, 2022 by loady

[JorgeB]

Try running memtest, you might have a hardware problem.

[loady]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Try running memtest, you might have a hardware problem.

I already did that as recommended a few posts back, it passed. New diags attached if any use

warptower-diagnostics-20221229-1210.zip

Edited December 29, 2022 by loady

[JorgeB]

Those look normal, but they are soon after a reboot, you can grab new ones after the problem just to see if it's the same issue, Unraid driver crashing.

[loady]

29 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Those look normal, but they are soon after a reboot, you can grab new ones after the problem just to see if it's the same issue, Unraid driver crashing.

How do i get diags if i cant access the GUI ? i am only aware of the issue at the point i go to try use the server

[JorgeB]

Get them on the console by typing diagnostics or enable the syslog server.

[loady]

53 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Get them on the console by typing diagnostics or enable the syslog server.

Is that logging in with SSH using putty ? not sure how to enable syslog server

[loady]

On 12/29/2022 at 2:26 PM, JorgeB said:

Get them on the console by typing diagnostics or enable the syslog server.

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

[JorgeB]

Persistent syslog is empty.

[loady]

19 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Persistent syslog is empty.

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.

Edited December 30, 2022 by loady

[JorgeB]

Either it's not working or there wasn't anything to log, for example start/stop the array and post a new log.

[loady]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Either it's not working or there wasn't anything to log, for example start/stop the array and post a new log.

 

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

syslog

[JorgeB]

OK, now there's something, but nothing relevant logged before the crash, and not the same issue as before where the Unraid driver was constantly crashing, suspect hardware problem, one thing you can try is to boot the server in safe mode with all docker/VMs disabled, let it run as a basic NAS for a few days, if it still crashes it's likely a hardware problem, if it doesn't start turning on the other services one by one.

[loady]

4 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

OK, now there's something, but nothing relevant logged before the crash, and not the same issue as before where the Unraid driver was constantly crashing, suspect hardware problem, one thing you can try is to boot the server in safe mode with all docker/VMs disabled, let it run as a basic NAS for a few days, if it still crashes it's likely a hardware problem, if it doesn't start turning on the other services one by one.

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 ?

[JorgeB]

Try, but it shouldn't.

[loady]

37 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Try, but it shouldn't.

 

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