February 10, 200818 yr I am having a problem very similar to this with 4.2.1. I have had a working system for over a year and all of a sudden my tower will not connect to my network. I restarted the machine just for the heck of it because it had been running for a few months. When I turned it back on, it started up just fine but it will not connect to my DHCP network. I've verified my network.cfg and it is set to use DHCP and I have verified the netmask and gateway. My results from "ifconfig eth0" look very similar to the first post with the missing IP address. I also tried to do the following command cp /var/log/syslog /boot/config/syslog.txt but it returns cp: cannot create regular file '/boot/config//syslog.txt' : No such file or directory The last 2 lines before I get to the Tower login are /ect/rc.d/rc/inet1.conf: line 19 /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory /ect/rc.d/rc/inet1.conf: line 19 /var/tmp/network.cfg: No such file or directory Anyone have any ideas? Ive been at this all day, upgraded my motherboard's (asus p5pe-vm) bios also!
February 11, 200818 yr Author I have bought the Netgear GA311 thinking that my onboard LAN was dead. This card, which is supposed to work with Unraid, is still rendering me the same problems as described above. At this point I am very worried that I might lose my family photos and everything else I have cataloged on the server. Help please!?
February 11, 200818 yr It sounds as if your flash drive is not being mounted at /boot. Type ls -l /boot It should have the contents of the flash drive. If not, then that is why your network is not accessible. It can get to the config files it needs on the flash drive. Many times, this is the result of not having se the volume label on the flash drive to "UNRIAD" Could you have recently changed something on the flash drive? Plug it into a windows box and look at its "properties" Make sure the label says UNRAID To view the syslog, you can type more /var/log/syslog each time you press the space bar you will see the next page. Look for error messages and share what you are unsure of here. Your pictures and data on the unRaid server are probably just fine... Type mount To see if the disks were mounted on the mount points... and type smbstatus To see your shared drives if it got that far. All will be clues as to what is happening. If the network driver was loaded, you can see it if you type: lsmod Joe L.
February 12, 200818 yr Author Thank you for the reply Joe. I tried ls -l /boot and got total 0 back. Even after verifying that my flash drive is still set as "UNRAID" I see: mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID does not exist Here are the lines that caught my attention: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad? hub_port_status failed error -32 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110 device not accepting address 107, error -71 mount followed by smbstatus gave me the following: sessionid.tdb not initialised /var/cache/sambe/connection.tdb not initialized This is normal if an SMB client has never connected to your server. Failed to open byte range locking database /car/cache/samba/brlock.tdb ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database Can't initialise locking module - exiting lsmod gave me the following: module size used by ide_disk 13184 0 ata_piix 11140 0 libata 98252 1 ata_piix skge 33172 0 pdc202xx_new 6272 0 [permanent] r8169 22808 0 piix 7940 0 [permanent] ide_core 95748 3 ide_disk,pdc202xx_new,piix
February 12, 200818 yr The last time I had that problem was because I hadn't correctly set the name of the flash drive to UNRAID, but if you had been working for a while that probably isnt it...
February 12, 200818 yr Author I just triple checked that it was set to UNRAID on my windows machine and it was set correctly. I did not unplug this when I restarted my machine so it should be the same install as when it was running smoothly!
February 12, 200818 yr OK... from the errors you posted it appears as if your motherboard is having a difficult time finding the device on the USB hub the flash drive is plugged into. Now, obviously, it must be reading some of the flash drive, otherwise it would not be booting at all. The main issue is that unRaid is unable to locate the drive with the UNRAID label to mount it at /boot. Perhaps Tom at lime-technology will have an idea or two... Did you make any (hardware) changes since you last booted? Changed any bios options? Do you have any other USB devices plugged in that might be getting it confused? Did you upgrade to a new version of unRaid? (just trying to jog your memory... ) Joe L.
February 12, 200818 yr Author I have made no hardware changes besides adding the Netgear GA311, but I have also tried multiple times without it. No other USB devices are connected. The bios changes I have made are small, just turned off the onboard nic. I plugged in another USB hub to the onboard motherboard USB connections and still could not get anywhere.
February 12, 200818 yr Trying to see if the flash drive is being detected at all... try the following three commands... ls -l /dev/disk/by-label ls -l /dev/disk/by-path ls -l /dev/disk/by-id On my array, the ls -l /dev/disk/by-label returns this: root@Tower:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 5 02:40 UNRAID -> ../../sda1
February 12, 200818 yr Author Here are the responses I received: ls -l /dev/disk/by-label no such file or directory ls -l /dev/disk/by-path da1 lrwxrwxrwx root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-o:1 -> ../../hdb lrwxrwxrwx root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-o:1-part1 -> ../../hdb db1 lrwxrwxrwx root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-o:1 -> ../../hdb lrwxrwxrwx root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-o:1-part -> ../../hdb dc1 lrwxrwxrwx root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-o:1 -> ../../hdb lrwxrwxrwx root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-o:1-part -> ../../hdb dd1 lrwxrwxrwx root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sd a lrwxrwxrwx root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0- part1 -> ../../sd (followed be more of this b, de1...) ls -l /dev/disk/by-id ../../hde1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 feb 12 11:34 ata-Maxtor_6Y160p0_Y43XTA9E > ../../hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 feb 12 11:34 ata-Maxtor_6Y160p0_Y43XTA9E-part1 > ../../hdd ./hdd1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 feb 12 11:34 ata-Maxtor_6Y200p0_Y61YZZ6E > ../../hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 feb 12 11:34 ata-Maxtor_6Y200p0_Y61YZZ6E-part1 -> ../. ./hda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 feb 12 11:34 ata-Maxtor_6Y250P0_Y64TC8YE > ../../hdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 feb 12 11:34 ata-Maxtor_6Y250P0_Y64TC8YE-part1 > ../../hdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 ata-ST3320620A_5QF1PGJH -> ../../hdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 ata-ST3320620A_5QF1PGJH-part1 -> ../../hdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 ata-ST3500630A_9QG021Z0 -> ../../hdf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 ata-ST3500630A_9QG021Z0-part1 -> ../../hdf1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 scsi-SATA_Maxtor_7L300S0_L60LPVG -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 scsi-SATA_Maxtor_7L300S0_L60LPVG-part1 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 12 11:34 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5000KS-00_WD-WMANU1102909 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 12 11:34 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5000KS-00_WD-WMANU1102909-part1 -> ../../sda1
February 12, 200818 yr I was hoping the by-label entry was there... clearly, it is not. So... now we know why unRaid can't find the entry with an UNRAID label, it was not created. In fact, I don't see any evidence of any entries except those of your hard disks in the by-path or by-id listings. Perhaps Tom will get an idea or two when he reads this... We can search in google to see if it gives any advice if the entries are not created for the USB flash drive... Joe L.
February 12, 200818 yr Author I did a search on our forum and came up with this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1231.0 This was never a U3 USB drive and has always worked in the past but I'll be sure to give this a try when I get home.
February 13, 200818 yr Author I tried the HP Flash Formatter and reran syslinux on the drive, downloaded a fresh copy of unRaid and put it on the drive. I then put my disk.cfg and pro.key in the config folder. I am still getting the 2 lines before Tower login: /ect/rc.d/rc/inet1.conf: line 18 /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory /ect/rc.d/rc/inet1.conf: line 19 /var/tmp/network.cfg: No such file or directory
February 13, 200818 yr You did remember to set the label again to UNRAID as it would have been erased when you re-formatted and re-loaded everything. The two messages are an indication that the flash drive did not get mounted at /boot. Therefore, the files it was looking for were not there. Assuming the label is set, we are still trying to figure out what is going on. Joe L.
February 13, 200818 yr Author I did made sure to set it to UNRAID. Just for grins I formatted another USB drive I had lying around and put a fresh copy of unraid on it without my key and custom disk.cfg. Unraid did boot up fine. At this point I have to think that my USB connections and onboard NIC are fine because thats what I justed used to connect to http://tower using the 2nd USB drive. I'm not quite understanding that because unraid starts just fine with my production USB drive, it just doesn't get mounted as /boot as you pointed out. Do I need to use a new USB drive?
February 13, 200818 yr interesting... I suppose it could be something as simple as your original USB flash drive acting weird on you.
February 13, 200818 yr <Note: I split this conversation off to a new topic> Looks like your Flash died somehow. You can try to manually mount it like this: From the console, type this: cat /proc/partitions In this output will be listed all your storage devices. You want to look down the #blocks column to find one about the size of your Flash (note that the numbers there are in 1K units). Usually easy to find because it will be much smaller than all the others. Now look which name has been assigned (typically 'sda' and 'sda1', but could be different). Let's assume it's 'sda' and 'sda1'. You can manually mount the flash like this: mount /dev/sda1 /boot Use the version of 'name' found above with the '1' in it. If this does not produce any errors, then you should be able to copy the system log to the Flash: cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog.txt Now un-mount the Flash: umount /boot [note command name is 'umount', not 'unmount' <-- original programmer being thrifty with letters ] Now plug flash into your PC and post the system log.
February 13, 200818 yr Author Thank you for the reply. After typing in mount /dev/sdc1/boot I get the error: cant find dev/sda1/boot in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
February 13, 200818 yr Thank you for the reply. After typing in mount /dev/sdc1/boot I get the error: cant find dev/sda1/boot in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab You missed a space in what you should be typing. mount /dev/sdc1 /boot
February 14, 200818 yr Author Thank you for noticing that Joe. Turns out though, I had my wife doing this from home, she put in my newer flash drive. I am home now and I put in the correct flash drive. After typing cat /proc/partitions I only see my hard drives, not the flash drive.
February 14, 200818 yr Well it looks like your Flash died. If you have another Flash that seems to be recognized, then, after the system boots with ONLY your suspect Flash installed, then hot-plug your second flash. Again type the 'cat /proc/partitions' command, this time it should recognize the Flash you just plugged in. Proceed as indicated above to copy the syslog to the Flash you just plugged in. What I want to see is the USB subsystem startup - it might be outputting error messages which would give a clue why your original Flash is no longer recognized.
February 14, 200818 yr Hi, I had the same problem with a usb key and i changed the usb from v2 to v1 in the bios and it was much happier. Cheers Dave
February 14, 200818 yr Author Wow! Thank you, that did the trick! I now have a smaller problem. When I started the server this time, the array did not start like it normally does. It does see all my disks and they appear to be in the correct order. Do I want to start or restore? Ive also attached the syslog!
February 14, 200818 yr These messages in your syslog seem to indicate the flash drive might still be giving you an issue or two. You can try starting your array... if it lets you. If not, a "restore" will do it. It will probably do a full parity calculation. Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.944660] read_file: error 2 opening /boot/config/super.dat Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.944665] md: could not read superblock from /boot/config/super.dat Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.944667] md: warning! initializing superblock Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.945163] md0: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.945313] md1: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.945411] md2: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.946398] md3: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.946554] md4: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.946689] md5: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.946838] md6: new disk Feb 13 18:24:09 Tower kernel: [ 131.946971] md7: new disk
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